The "big lie" begins with the story of Genesis. There is no "creation from the void." The brothers cook-up this lie in the clubhouse; the evidence is contrary. Gregory Bateson says that the story presents a problem in thermodynamics and that the origin is more likely a "fertile egg." The story of Genesis is an "overcode," a "veil of deceit." The brothers hallucinate "father as god" in a "declaration of independence" from "mother-nature." The brothers' intention is to incorporate the body of nature and transform it into a spiritual body, to make it after their own collective image. The story of Genesis is History.

The genesis story, as history, would have us believe that we were born before we were conceived, that the natural bi-sexual body originates in the spiritual body, that History is the origin of Nature. The natural body is a fertile-egg, the historical body is the body born. History begins at birth; at the origin of the "separation situation." The ego-complex is an historical body, a body separated from mother nature.

The separation lies in the space that I must traverse and the time that it takes me to traverse that empty space to reach my point of view. Depth perception is historical perception. For as long as the body does not perceive in depth, the separation does not exist, or, the separation, while implicit, is not yet explicit. The critical technique in all of this is the alphabet.