This paper argues for the embodied metaphorical experience of cultural and societal transformation. The mechanism for experiencing such transformation is through the metaphors that encase and are embedded within human existence, those from which human lives cannot escape. Human lives, and society by extension, are thereby metaphorically transformed. The paper explores the work of Lakhoff and Johnson in an effort to extend their thesis of both metaphorical existence and the embodied reality of philosophy into the modality of the transformation of human experience through religious metaphorical speech.