As I scroll down using the fingers of my hand, I'm aware that these ( the whole series, really)
has lit, fired up my thought processes. Hmmm
Your posts ( whole series)
Fascinating intriguing quite exhilerating really
I will leave your latest post read later once I have read and fully contemplated these
It's not the time it takes to read its reflecting and absorbing them
Serious research and connections you make I really like
One thought I recall reading a while ago so would need to check it out. Vegans note perhaps. It was our eating of meat that amongst other things that helped our brains grow.
Not entirely relevant I know.Just a thought
Also wished to attach a photograph from a recent hospital appointment of a large wooden sort of statue . a circle of linked open hands. Healing hands appropriate there. Thought you might like . Not sure how to attach. Thicko here durr.
I was going to restack anyway and know how to attach there.
beautifully written. I uncovered a healing methodology that physiologically drains toxins from the hands. neck and shoulder issues, heart stuff. lung issues. lymph notes... a place to receive.. a place to let go. when we unlock the hands and feet. the rest of the body follows.
Yeesss. all of this. I share bits through my writings, and then have a lot of free stuff and guided stuff on. youtube. and then I break it all down quite simply on my little shop through some courses and offer one on one session and then hold Lives where I do guided work for free with the community here on Substack.
It came about by me studying and reverse engineering the bodily energy, tingles, twitches itches and meditating for 15 years with it with my guides to truly understand it after i left a huge corporate career... where I found out very first hand that the medical industrial complex was a total farse from seeing it too close ....
I enjoyed this because it points to something we often overlook. What feels "magical" is frequently the result of a quality of presence rather than a supernatural event. When someone is deeply attentive, coherent, and genuinely with us, ordinary moments can become extraordinary. Perhaps the real magic isn't that reality changes, but that our way of relating to it does.
Exactly. And perhaps perspective is not just a way of seeing, but a state of being.
When our inner state changes, the same world reveals different possibilities. Nothing external may have changed, yet the relationship between observer and experience has. That, to me, is where the deepest transformations begin.
I completely agree 100% I might actually write about this particular thing in the near future! It's such an interesting relationship between what is perceived and what is known and what we see in them
That's the thread worth following. The relationship between perception and being is not one-way. You don't just see the world. You participate in it. And when your state changes, the world reorganizes around that shift. Not because the world changed, but because your participation in it did.
The deepest transformations are not about changing the external. They're about changing the relationship to it. And that relationship is a state of being, not just a perspective.
So interesting and profound! We really take some of the most essential things for granted, don’t we? P.S. Here’s one of my favourite emojis - 🤦🏻♀️ lol
Lol this one is mines recently 🫣 yeah our bodies are literally everything we know but we feel we are above them. I know I operated that way for a long time till I started really realizing things
I love how you describe "the vocabulary of touch." Your illustrations are wonderful. The essay is well thought out and a pleasure to read. It is an honor to present it in The Crown Valley Quarterly (I hope you like how I presented it): https://liveyosemite.wordpress.com/2026/07/02/crown-valley-quarterly/
Love this piece, Fractals. The way you write has such a lovely pace and tone to it. It feels like a Saturday morning coffee and cake conversation, where we both look at our hands to see what we can find. The historical element is lovely too, and the tie-in to religion and spiritualism works and blends perfectly.
A remarkable meditation. Damn, your observation that language itself preserves a fossil record of the hand🔥. That insight bridges anthropology, symbolism, and spirituality in a way very few writers attempt. As someone who has spent years studying the esoteric traditions surrounding the hand, I found myself reading this through the lens of palmistry and mudras. The ancients rarely viewed the hand as a passive tool. They regarded it as condensed biography. Every mount, every finger, every crease represented consciousness crystallized into form. The hand creates the world, yes, but it also records the creator. Your progression toward fire felt inevitable. Fire may well have been humanity's first great extension of the hand, but I suspect the hand itself was our first altar. Every blessing, oath, healing, covenant, and work of creation passed through it long before temples ever rose from the earth.
Your essay left me with two questions. If our language preserves the archaeology of the hand, could the palm itself preserve the archaeology of consciousness? In other words, are the lines of the hand less a prediction of fate than a living manuscript of accumulated intention?
And because you beautifully connected the hand with fire, have you ever considered whether the traditional elemental associations of the fingers, thumb as Fire, index as Air, middle as Ether or Saturn, ring as Sun or Earth depending on the school, little finger as Water or Mercury, may represent humanity's oldest surviving map of embodied cosmology rather than mere symbolic correspondence?
Beautiful work. You reminded your readers that the hand does far more than shape the world. It quietly reveals the one doing the shaping.
"Your essay left me with two questions. If our language preserves the archaeology of the hand, could the palm itself preserve the archaeology of consciousness? In other words, are the lines of the hand less a prediction of fate than a living manuscript of accumulated intention?"
You know what's really interesting here, is I've had this theory that everything physical about us is a manifestation of everything energetic and mental going on and is reinforced by behaviour. I think palm readers and also psychics in general are super human pattern recognition machines. Basically the geniuses of pattern recognition and therefore can look at someone, thier hand, thier face, the posture of the body and immediately somehow tie the dots on what it is that's going on about them. And the more details you get into like different fingers and lines and specific wrinkles on the face the more you get deeper into the persons energy. Think about how the smaller we go into physics the more we know about the universe and chemistry and thus life.
The other part of what you said on specific fingers corresponding to different elements definitely resonates. I would not be surprised we have different elements even to the different parts of the fingers themsleves one by one. I know this stuff gets really really deep. What always shocks me is how did people know this? Fascinating
Thank u so much for reading! 💕 I've got to look into more of what you commented on too, lots to explore!
Love it!
Thank you so much for reading! 😁🌹
Such a great piece. Your fine writer.
Thank you! Your so appreciated! 🤗🌹
Great post! The physical sensation I have missed the most in those times in my life when I've been alone is "touch."
Yeah, touch is extremely regulating for our nervous systems. 🤗
As I scroll down using the fingers of my hand, I'm aware that these ( the whole series, really)
has lit, fired up my thought processes. Hmmm
Your posts ( whole series)
Fascinating intriguing quite exhilerating really
I will leave your latest post read later once I have read and fully contemplated these
It's not the time it takes to read its reflecting and absorbing them
Serious research and connections you make I really like
One thought I recall reading a while ago so would need to check it out. Vegans note perhaps. It was our eating of meat that amongst other things that helped our brains grow.
Not entirely relevant I know.Just a thought
Also wished to attach a photograph from a recent hospital appointment of a large wooden sort of statue . a circle of linked open hands. Healing hands appropriate there. Thought you might like . Not sure how to attach. Thicko here durr.
I was going to restack anyway and know how to attach there.
I'll 'hand' you this you weave an interesting tale
beautifully written. I uncovered a healing methodology that physiologically drains toxins from the hands. neck and shoulder issues, heart stuff. lung issues. lymph notes... a place to receive.. a place to let go. when we unlock the hands and feet. the rest of the body follows.
That's incredible!! I would love to know more! It's wondrous how the body is interconnected with the mind and the environment!
Yeesss. all of this. I share bits through my writings, and then have a lot of free stuff and guided stuff on. youtube. and then I break it all down quite simply on my little shop through some courses and offer one on one session and then hold Lives where I do guided work for free with the community here on Substack.
It came about by me studying and reverse engineering the bodily energy, tingles, twitches itches and meditating for 15 years with it with my guides to truly understand it after i left a huge corporate career... where I found out very first hand that the medical industrial complex was a total farse from seeing it too close ....
I'm genuinely amazed!! I will check it all out! I'm very interested in all of it
If you want to see the overview course I have it here. ;https://stan.store/meganyoungmee. then free stuff is here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB_1gcu31_v1B546jaBwRrXpVg4TtY7AU
I enjoyed this because it points to something we often overlook. What feels "magical" is frequently the result of a quality of presence rather than a supernatural event. When someone is deeply attentive, coherent, and genuinely with us, ordinary moments can become extraordinary. Perhaps the real magic isn't that reality changes, but that our way of relating to it does.
Definitely!! It's always perspective 😊
Exactly. And perhaps perspective is not just a way of seeing, but a state of being.
When our inner state changes, the same world reveals different possibilities. Nothing external may have changed, yet the relationship between observer and experience has. That, to me, is where the deepest transformations begin.
I completely agree 100% I might actually write about this particular thing in the near future! It's such an interesting relationship between what is perceived and what is known and what we see in them
That's the thread worth following. The relationship between perception and being is not one-way. You don't just see the world. You participate in it. And when your state changes, the world reorganizes around that shift. Not because the world changed, but because your participation in it did.
The deepest transformations are not about changing the external. They're about changing the relationship to it. And that relationship is a state of being, not just a perspective.
I'd read that piece when you write it.
So interesting and profound! We really take some of the most essential things for granted, don’t we? P.S. Here’s one of my favourite emojis - 🤦🏻♀️ lol
Lol this one is mines recently 🫣 yeah our bodies are literally everything we know but we feel we are above them. I know I operated that way for a long time till I started really realizing things
I love how you describe "the vocabulary of touch." Your illustrations are wonderful. The essay is well thought out and a pleasure to read. It is an honor to present it in The Crown Valley Quarterly (I hope you like how I presented it): https://liveyosemite.wordpress.com/2026/07/02/crown-valley-quarterly/
Wow!! I'm so so honoured!! Thank you so much for your support Douglas this really made my day today 🙏🏻
Great piece. I really enjoyed reading it, and love how you articulated the meanings of the hand. Thank you, I learned a lot.
Thank you so much for reading!! I'm really glad u enjoyed it! 🙏🏻🌹
Love this piece, Fractals. The way you write has such a lovely pace and tone to it. It feels like a Saturday morning coffee and cake conversation, where we both look at our hands to see what we can find. The historical element is lovely too, and the tie-in to religion and spiritualism works and blends perfectly.
Thank you Mark! I'm really glad you enjoyed the piece. 🙏🏻
A remarkable meditation. Damn, your observation that language itself preserves a fossil record of the hand🔥. That insight bridges anthropology, symbolism, and spirituality in a way very few writers attempt. As someone who has spent years studying the esoteric traditions surrounding the hand, I found myself reading this through the lens of palmistry and mudras. The ancients rarely viewed the hand as a passive tool. They regarded it as condensed biography. Every mount, every finger, every crease represented consciousness crystallized into form. The hand creates the world, yes, but it also records the creator. Your progression toward fire felt inevitable. Fire may well have been humanity's first great extension of the hand, but I suspect the hand itself was our first altar. Every blessing, oath, healing, covenant, and work of creation passed through it long before temples ever rose from the earth.
Your essay left me with two questions. If our language preserves the archaeology of the hand, could the palm itself preserve the archaeology of consciousness? In other words, are the lines of the hand less a prediction of fate than a living manuscript of accumulated intention?
And because you beautifully connected the hand with fire, have you ever considered whether the traditional elemental associations of the fingers, thumb as Fire, index as Air, middle as Ether or Saturn, ring as Sun or Earth depending on the school, little finger as Water or Mercury, may represent humanity's oldest surviving map of embodied cosmology rather than mere symbolic correspondence?
Beautiful work. You reminded your readers that the hand does far more than shape the world. It quietly reveals the one doing the shaping.
Solomon Grim~ Everybody's brother🙏
"Your essay left me with two questions. If our language preserves the archaeology of the hand, could the palm itself preserve the archaeology of consciousness? In other words, are the lines of the hand less a prediction of fate than a living manuscript of accumulated intention?"
You know what's really interesting here, is I've had this theory that everything physical about us is a manifestation of everything energetic and mental going on and is reinforced by behaviour. I think palm readers and also psychics in general are super human pattern recognition machines. Basically the geniuses of pattern recognition and therefore can look at someone, thier hand, thier face, the posture of the body and immediately somehow tie the dots on what it is that's going on about them. And the more details you get into like different fingers and lines and specific wrinkles on the face the more you get deeper into the persons energy. Think about how the smaller we go into physics the more we know about the universe and chemistry and thus life.
The other part of what you said on specific fingers corresponding to different elements definitely resonates. I would not be surprised we have different elements even to the different parts of the fingers themsleves one by one. I know this stuff gets really really deep. What always shocks me is how did people know this? Fascinating
Thank u so much for reading! 💕 I've got to look into more of what you commented on too, lots to explore!