Howdy Haunts!
Hope you’ve been groovy; I just took a week out of the droll social media goofjuice to help futurecast some pragmatic magicks concerning my “career” (I hate that word – I merely mean how I finance my art).
I will do a Patreon check-in whether tonight/tomorrow (my only free time this week) and will keep you updated!
Until then I wanted to share my introductory writing about my Haunt Manual workings, The Prospectre Working specifically, that was included in the first issue of Scavenged Rituals. This was drafted for new eyes to help paint somw intention about the weirdo devil-speak gnar-music of mine included on 5inch vinyl that accompanied the zine.
You, dear patrons, have already been privy to the full working in video format! (Check past posts!)
I will be sharing my 7 minute edit of the ritual that was used for the vinyl here, eventually, and after the temporary moratorium Scavenged Rituals has on the art!
Also, read the new Haunt Manual chapter “SALVO SIEMPRE SALVO” now live at HAUNTMANUAL.COM – it evolved quite a smidge since sharing its draft with you.
I have much more to share with you, dear patrons, especially concerning life and all its whims and follies…
Will post a stream here this week.
That said – I am back with a certain vengence only afforded to the bright-eyed and bushy-tailed – so look out for more!
THE PROSPECTRE ESSAY TO FOLLOW:
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The Prospectre Ritual ∴ Hauntomancy
Revel∴Keats Rosz
My recent audiomancy (sound magicks) has explored ways to commune with the hauntological Spectre-of-Self utilizing a variety of schema to evoke memories, emotions and synapses long thought forgotten (ghosts). These Dims (termed from my magickally minded meditative practice to Dim the Tzim-Tzum, or dimming the corporeal and conceivable) are rituals composed and performed in my aptly titled Dimming Room; a consecrated space full of pragmatic and magickal talismans that aid in the creation, application and documentation of each workings’ specific conjurations. Audiomancy has become my primary tool in communicating and experimenting with magickal means; music and sound being a language easily casted and experimented with, thus these hauntological workings would easily be triggered and traversed through the annals of music-sparked memory.
The workings have been divided into three categories, with varying rubrics, according to the year, aspect, or prospect of the self-spectre I wish to commune with: Spectre, Aspectre or Prospectre workings, respectively.
Each ritual begins with a liminal rite (meditation, ritual bath, staging), an intentional arsenal of unique talismanic instruments with unique magickal correspondences (i.e. my baritone electric guitar as the sacred masculine, the keyboard as the lunar common chord, a broken rhythm machine as the wounded chiron, etc.) to call to and trigger organically in an improvised, meditative state. Each ritual is documented, deciphered and results logged in the living grimoire I titled Haunt Manual. I call it a living grimoire because the Haunt Manual is publishing and producing these sessions publicly as they are generated, transformed and are studied.
In the Spectre ritual, the intended ghost I communed with was my personage of my magickal birth year of 2017. 2017 set me on my current path, and was filled with brilliant bounties both spiritually and emotionally. It was my hypothesis that during a recent oppressive time I could utilize my audiomancy workings to evoke (quite literally) my 2017 self into the current timeline.
The Aspectre ritual schema was generally the same, yet emphatically improved with focus and a new intended conjuration. Because of the unintended life-jousts caused by the Spectre working, I decided to conjure an aspect-of-self that I had long yearned to regain. Though it would be an aspect most cherished in my youth, it was not one tied to a specific chronomancy. I yearned for the nights spent free from adult woes and tribulations, nights of extreme creative abandon and experimentation, nights spent in a long liminal mire as I had done in my later teen years.
And lo, the Prospectre working, 7 minutes of which is accompanying this issue on vinyl now haunts on. The ritual bleed from the last sessions would delineate the Prospectre’s purpose: From a self-spectre conjured from a certain year, to a long-lost aspect-of-self rebirthed, the triumvirate working would experiment with the communion of a future-ghost, one that would attempt to cross the tzim-tzum into the neither/neither of a timeless dramatis personae, and speak through the dimmed tether into a prospect of self yet-determined. As with most magickal means, this seems to be a cornerstone of manifestation, to futurecast. But can I actually evoke a ghost not yet born?
This Prospectre ritual expounded upon the schema of the last two. However, this working would use the ghostbox, a radio frequency shuffling device often used by paranormal investigators to communicate with “ghosts.” My initial understanding of this phenomena is simple, that the pareidolia, or innate human pattern making, that wires our brains so acutely can be consecrated as the other – why pareidolia isn’t as enamored in preternatural study is beyond me, for it is a gateway to the subconscious. Perhaps communion with this pareidolia may lead to a fortified will, and thus conforming micro-decisions to bend to an intention, not unlike chaote protocols…
But what if, using these hauntomantic audiomancy workings, I can birth these synapses within the spires and patterns of music and commune thusly with the ghostbox as if I was scrying and syncopating the subconscious? Or what if I could conjure a future ghost, a yet-born-self, and ignite a pathway to a desired beingness? As you can see, I have not quite concluded one way or the other, and to say one hypothesis is more preternatural than the other misses the point entirely. I believe the base conclusion and my hypotheses can share the same venn diagram swimmingly.
As this Dim Session, number 7 of the haunt manual workings, is my nascent attempt at exploring the future-spectre-of-self, I threw a lot on the ritual to document and decipher my findings later. My liminal rite, not unlike the ritual bath, meditation and intention of the others, came with a unique attempt at bridging the ritual bleed of the last two by meditating in my dimming room the night before the ritual. In the dark liminality, I recorded whatever questions came to me onto cassette tape. This was my opening rite, a communion of a past self with the ghostbox’s other, whilst punching and howling in the present.
The audiomancy pulpit had to be designed with call-backs to the prior two, this time incorporating all that came before while adding brand new instrumentation and talismans not yet utilized. A new drum set became my physical anchor through the static bleed, and my baritone guitar became my vessel through, however, I focused more on vocals, uncomfortable scales and glossolalia as a means to bark forward things never before attempted. The glossolalia and ghostbox has allowed me to decipher a sort of alien dialect spoken between two agents.
I managed to remember to record the rest of the dim session on cassette after my opening ritual questions on cassette, allowing magnetic tones and hiss to document the room. Since I had wore headphones to hear the ghostbox and live vocal/drum manipulation, the sparse dark around my somatic actions was captured.
The deciphering method for this session is threefold: The ghostbox, the glossolalia and the room tape are to be deciphered and concluded. This 7 minute excerpt is all three mixed in a linear fashion as they had occurred, along with my multi-tracking of the session for documentarian purposes.
I am still in the midst of transcribing the 3 sources and concluding who or what I was communing with during that session. It excites me to know that listeners will find their own pareidolia charged and sparked when listening. Was I communicating with my future-self? With something preternatural? With my subconscious? Is there a difference? I am not sure as of yet. What I will say is that the temperature meter on the ghostbox was left on during the session, and throughout the room tape you can hear it go haywire throughout… What do you hear?
To read a more in depth breakdown of each ritual’s processes, please visit hauntmanual.com or listen to the accompanying audio-chapters on Pragmagick wherever pods are casted.
Haunt on,
Revel∴Keats Rosz
BIO:
Revel∴Keats Rosz is a writer, musician, podcaster and Revelator of the international magickal media collective, We The Hallowed. He is also known as Dakota Slim, a bardo-jumping spectre haunting the aural deserts across the west. Currently, he is conjuring a living, multi-media grimoire entitled Haunt Manual. You can find him and his literary, audiomantic and magickal lore at PragMagick.com
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