“All the devices and machines that we see and use in our daily lives represent stolen powers of the mind and soul. These are abilities and senses that we arrived into human birth with the nascent precursors to. Abilities to see into time, to speak across distance, to dreamshare in real time, to travel without vehicles, to heal other creatures or each other, to ‘write’ in the living libraries and read from them, to know the other intelligences that dwell here and on other worlds. Thousands of abilities and skills, senses and ‘powers’ that are our human birthrights, and would naturally develop in cultures aware of and friendly to them, are, instead, obliterated by ceaseless exposure to an imprinting on representational replacements. Objects, machines, and processes that have nothing whatsoever to do with life, and cause death merely by existing.

All of these devices that we find so compelling, smartphones and automobiles, ships and aircraft, robots and weapons, tools and toys… all of these are analogs of the senses, abilities and relationships that are the promise and potentials we come to human birth with. The representations replace and inhibit their supralogues, which then become folk-tales, superstitions, and religious figments. Having lost these precious endowments, we then worship the figments that rise in their place, adoring the phony hyperboles of sports, fictions, tv and film heroes (and their beneficiaries), villains (and their victims), and stories about machines that will exist and dominate our lives and cultures in ‘the future’.

I urge you to see through all of this, back into the origins of our lives, minds and humanity. Deeply into its actual natures and capacities, and the purposive spirit of our births, lives and deaths… for they have nothing whatsoever to do with all that fascinates and dominates us while immersed in our machine and tool-based cultures. We, and our endowments are holy, not mechanical.

I therefore urge you to rediscover the capacities and potentials of your inner senses, the abilities and skills that are beyond all imagining, yet as ordinary as your own hand, or mind. Buried underneath our slavery to machines, language and fashions of thought there are treasures so incredible that were we to resurrect them we would never again concede the sovereignty and nobility of our humanity to devices, tools, techniques or machines. Indeed, were we to recover but the merest portion of our true natures and endowments, we would as unavailable to their representational analogs as we are to plastic food.

Throw off the chains of device relation, and recover your original birthrights. Do not be deceived; those machines are actual demons, they are dead objects that have acquired the attention, concern and resources proper only to living relationships, companions, and allies. If we allow this, we shall become like them, within, and without. And this is an infamy we must neither celebrate nor tolerate.”

— an anonymous informant