I will call the sum of our faculties ‘the mind’, though it’s a complex non-entity. It is never entirely local. It has dimensions we have no language for.

One might present a problem where the mind is ‘like’ seven hands. Each finger has unique abilities and qualities. Most of these are nonordinary in that, we have neither language nor concepts about them. But their »traces are found in our languages.

The problem is this. We begin with seven hands, whose fingers can transform, and whose nature is fundamentally miraculous.

But when we are introduced to the ‘adult’ world of language, identities and concepts… all seven hands become compromised. As if they picked up something that »they can never thereafter release*. And which inhibits the abilities of all of the hands, and uses only one finger. Of one hand.

And this finger must dominate, and pretend itself capable of all other »possible skills and abilities.

Forever.

The problem has a solution. But it isn’t found in language. It’s found by recovering relationships and forms of awareness that, while aware of language and concepts, utilize them carefully, and with awareness. Not only of their limitations… but of their extremely narrow scope of reasonable application.

With such awareness, some of the hands… and fingers… are liberated from their ordinary handicaps.

And this process recovers faculties too astonishing to imagine with the mind that has explicitly rejected them… because it cannot accomplish them. For these faculties are not representational. Or representable.

They are primordial. And exceed our most fervent fantasies.

* Except, to varying degrees, in dreaming