I was just reading a blog post on Geomancy and saw the following:
This immediately made me think of something in Krebs' book The Missionaries. This is what he was getting at with the lessons about holding something when speaking to direct your speech in sympathetic ways to what you are holding.
Buddhism, Hinduism, and most other religions place a huge amount of importance of the positions of the hands in ritual or devotional artwork. These positions are often called mudras, which literally means “seals”. Different mudras connote different things, cultivate different mindsets, or create different meanings in the world.
This immediately made me think of something in Krebs' book The Missionaries. This is what he was getting at with the lessons about holding something when speaking to direct your speech in sympathetic ways to what you are holding.
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