“One can usefully imagine the mind as a hand. The metaphor is excellent, and true. The problem is this: most of what we are trained to see, think, say, like, and desire… involves ‘only the perspective from the tip of the index finger’. From here, there is ‘no such thing as a hand’, and ‘everything is a part’. In fact, ‘Science’ as most people know or think about it is the product of a »tiny portion of this perspective, and ‘Religion’ has become something like ‘the second joint’ (i.e: pointless).

But a mind that is a fingertip sees nothing at all, and can only joust. Science is actually a structural aspect of the entire hand and all its possibilities. Religion has »nothing to do with fingertips, and is actually ‘about’ the »wrist. An index finger »has no grasp whatsoever, and cannot actually manipulate anything. It just ‘pushes and points’. To ‘hold’ or ‘apprehend’ anything at all »a whole hand is required.

And ‘language’, which pretends to be the putative ‘God’ of meaning, origin, identity and relation, is just an implementation »of a tiny portion of the index finger’s possible tracings in dust. One »way of tracing, among an infinity. Figurative, invented, and nothing like reality or that to which it supposedly ‘refers’. Since we are trained to ‘think in the style of language’ we do »not even get the index finger’s capacities in this regard, but rather, those of ‘the compelling shadow that results from one method of moving the finger’.

And all of this is the literal source of every human nightmare, atrocity, delusion and concern. Indeed, we are oriented and concerned by little else, because the tracings of the index finger, having long ago replaced reality, intelligence, divinity — and even relation — are now the actual and crippling ‘Gods’ of our minds, fake intelligence, and falsified humanity. This is ‘religion’ and ‘science’, in the modern moment, is similarly hobbled by the purposes that drive and inform its actual practice and produce. Index and Push, or Grasp and Relate.

The Hand. You’ve been overlooking it for far, far too long. While it has no eyes, it is an older and far more reliable ‘way of seeing’.”

— an anonymous informant