The following is the “SPEKTRE OF HAUNTOMANCY” section from the recent “SPEKTRE SANS SPECTRES” piece published on HAUNT MANUAL exploring the Hauntological tethers and deviations of the anarchic practice, Hauntomancy.
“Spektre Sans Specters
An examination of the hauntological aspects, semiotics and transmutations within Hauntomancy”
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∴ The SPEKTRE of HAUNTOMANCY (Excerpt)
Hauntomancy’s Ritual Semiotics and the Troikatych of the Gheiszt
At the core of Hauntomancy lies the Troikatych:
More than a symbolic gesture, the Troikatych ∴ is the spektral signal flow—mapping macro and micro cartography through from thought to action to revelation. It’s an alchemical architecture transposed through many nodes, ∴ , and wherever cited: ∴ it is a portal for the Hauntomancer—a psychick glyph that allows the Hauntomancer to dissolve, echo and resonate beyond the noted subject, such as the past-spektre of the Gheiszt, or active metaphysical self. Not unlike the symbol’s use within actual cartography to denote ruins, ∴ is the beacon of echo-location radiation that emits ideation, expression, and transformation beyond the noted cites, connoting a resonance not present. The system is not fixed, but fluid; designed to collapse boundaries between mental process, physical ritual, and the semiotic signifiers we embed within both. It is phantom-tethered, allowing the Hauntomancer to discover and generate their own thoroughfares through the noted subject, or Tych, and its contradictory parallel, or Contrych, and finally, its revelatory Vertych—sat above the linear tych bounds and able to peer behind and beyond its binary alliterations:
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Each point of the Troikatych performs a distinct spektral function that could be mapped within each of its Tych Phases and its relation with the Hauntomantik triadic formula (Dissolver ∴ Eco ∴ Resonar) relative to signal-flow and intermingled through Psychickal and Somatick constructs to acheive communion with a Spektral Phase:
Tych: Thought→Meditation→Disolver→Memory→Spektre:
The Psychick cycle: dissolution of memory into raw symbolic feed; the unconverted thought and the experiential history; the unfiltered building blocks of the self.
The Somatick cycle: Base functions and active adherents within an intentional working by beginning with the Hauntomantik triadic formula’s Disolver (Dissolve) function—dissolve memory through meditation to commune with the Spektre of then.
Spektre: The raw signal—unfiltered memory and past self built from experiential and sentimental resonance.
Contrych: Action→Divination→Eco→Heteronym→Aspektre:
The Psychick Cycle: Active modulation of the signal through feedback in its contradiction—psychick resonance, experimental processing, and recursion.
The Somatick Cycle: Physical interactivity with atmospheric resonance through call-and-response (Eco / Echo) communication with the ideas and aspects of self to in/evoke the Aspektre.
Aspektre: Modulation and feedback—psychic reverb, experimentation, processing.
Vertych: Resolve→Communion→Resonar→SupraSelf→Prospektre:
The Psychick Cycle: The generative act—the overarch intention, a resounding revelation and communion with an ulterior and deviated creation.
The Somatick Cycle: Futher piece-meal’d construction, calibration and conversation with the supraself; a resounding attainment achieved and archived through the Prospektre.
Prospektre: Output—ritualized creation, creative artifact, hauntomantic transmission.
This Spektral Signal Flow, or Holler-round (to connote its feedback intentionality) ∴ mirrors sound signal path routing, but also aligns with a semiotic process: signifier (raw signal), signified (processed meaning), and referent (expressed outcome). The Troikatych bridges symbolic systems, creative media, and magickal rites. It offers both a map and a method, charged rumination, and an explodable and exploitable system for the Hauntomancer to operate within its boundless tethers.
Unlike hauntology, which lingers in melancholic abstraction, Hauntomancy posits the Phantokon: a vertych synthesis of both spektrality and ritualized form. It’s an alchemical signal of becoming. The Phantokon also deviates from Derrida’s pharmakon (poison and cure) and Burroughs’ Third Mind (emergent synthesis beyond singular authorship) into a principled Other, seemingly untethered-yet-construkted with phantom limbs; beyond temporal and somatic constructs, but behind as well.
We can examine the pharmakon as utilized within Derrida’s hauntology but through the lense of the Hauntomantik Troikatych: Neither either a poison or antidote, but both—as defined within the pharmakon—can transpose within a Hauntomancy paradigm with, say, the tych of memory as both poison and antidote, and communed and consorted as such. Therefore (∴) this self-spektre Phantokon is both a deviation and homage to the Hauntological prism but specific within the Hauntomantik construkt. The Phantokon of Hauntomancy is one of unified transience that utilizes its contrasts within each working to commune and create with the Gheiszt, but results may vary, and sometimes dancing with those Spektres can prove an immediate poison, or tarot tower card, for a longview inoculation.
As with Derrida’s sense of the Pharmakon, each point in the Troikatych can function as both remedy and toxin through its base functions between the tych and contrych, or even as whole: Dissolution can be catharsis or collapse. Echoes may clarify or distort. Resonance may liberate or trap. The Hauntomancer must interpret and navigate the polarity of each, and weigh the gray tundras that emit through every cartography point the ∴ may emanate.
This instability is not a flaw, however. Like Derrida’s pharmakon or Burroughs’ Third Mind, the Troikatych is designed for transmutation through contradiction. In this sense, it becomes a semiotic engine, collapsing dualities through spektral interplay. The instance of the vertych, its reveal, its attainment, is not a singular objective sought without its coupled signal flow functions of its tych and contrych.
To forge a vertych without heavy introspection and experimentation through its tych and contrych, actually resolves to become a tych to begin with. This is the only true sequential mapping that exists within Hauntomancy, as it is inherent in the linear cartography of a life, with past always preceding the present, and the future proceeding the present. However, the present is never truly present, each access point to the present always resolves to be in the past, thus, working within the sequential Troikatych system allows one to delineate and distill the separation of past and present by Dimming the somatick through Dim Sessions and allowing one to tangentially conceive of a stasis beyond or above the forever haunted now.
The Troikatych is not just a cosmogram—it is an engine of becoming. It insists on activity over observation, on feedback loops over the ad infinitum, on authorship over passive interpretation. Tethering the Troikatych is, graphically, where the processes of Hauntomancy lay, and how those are tethered, graphically, is the maxim of which Hauntomancy engages its full Gheiszt: when each node is engaged fully, it reveals a praxis capable of reformatting memory into myth, trauma into servitors, aesthetics into somatick weapons and the self into a resonant emanation.
“The self-spektre signal, though converted and manipulated through personal signal converters for clarity, resampling or intentional degradation, is a largely unconverted conduit path from practitioner to the shared somatick.” — The forthcoming HAUNTOMANCER PRIMER, Troikatych Section
Hauntomancy doesn’t seek to merely preserve; it seeks to generate. The ghosts aren’t curated as with current artificial intelligence, or what most modern technology seeks to do: feign creation assistance while really becoming a proxy curator, rather than assistant creator, if even, at all. That is the bounty of which, collectively, we have come to deem of paramount use: aggregation of transcribed art playacting as the creator alone. Bahumbug!
Hauntomancy is actively conjured, embodied, and transmuted into new works, novel to the self and materialized through the practice. The Spektral Phasing is central to this: It is a psychick tool made of multiple selves—forgotten, imagined, or obscured, in a piecemeal ritual garb fitted for a superposition.
Creation becomes séance. Zines, tape loops, broken camcorders, soft light projector constructs with corrupted analog video signals, 4 track machines with broken pitch wheels, obsolete software, dead hardware and through the somatic anchorage of activity within videomantic / audiomantic dim sessions, function as tools—not aesthetic props, but as hard, constructive channels through the talismans once yielded to venture towards the Other in supremely divergent abandon. What Hauntology theorizes, Hauntomancy enacts.
It incorporates Somatick Magick: dimensional ritual via the body, voice, sound, and analog interference. Dim Sessions—ritualized recording invocations—demand bodily calibration with psychic signal.
Where hauntology surveys cultural spectres, Hauntomancy constructs ritual channels to commune with internal archetypal Spektres, phantom timelines, and the ghosts of one’s own lore.
Dimming of the Tzimtzum—making the construction of fathomability opaque to allow for the indescribable to peer in, is paramount through Hauntomancy. We re-expand the divine through the dimming of the conceivable, exorcised through somatick sight and sound. The physical interactivity with spektre sceptres, or hauntomantik talismans, is the anchor for the psychick exhaust system to run amok
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The following post contains some very synchonous ALW Cipher / New Aeon English Qabbala number deciphers (and correlating words) of my “haunted lexicon” / kitchy lingo used in the last Hauntomancy / Hauntology piece, “SPEKTRE SANS SPECTRES”.
Thanks to the agents at Listening Post Alpha for continuing to assist in my dimensional punching of the gheiszt. Forgive the mad-dash and hip-shot definitions (full lexicon coming soon)…
TROIKATYCH – the transpositional glyph and hauntomantik kosmological equation
132 – EYESIGHT, SECRET WORD, THE RITUAL, OF THEE, OLD LETTERS,
TYCH (Troikatych) – source node
56 – LOVER, RULE, PLASMA
CONTRYCH (Troikatych) – contrarian source node
102 – HAUNTOLOGY, THE CROWN, AFTERWARD, ABOVE YOU, ALSO ANOTHER, DAY AFTER
VERTYCH (Troikatych) – above/behind & below/beyond the tych & contrych fulcrum; the thirdmind of both
103 – ETERNAL, LOVELY STAR, THE AXEL, THY DEATH, ALPHABET
GHEISZT – The active and intrusive / elusive metaphysical self
100 – LOVE CHANT, THE STARS, THE KNOWN, GHOSTBOX
PHANTOKON – the spektral forms and phase whole
106 – PAST SELF, REVEL ROSZ, The SIGN, BLOODLINE, SHALL BE KNOWN, I ARCHANGEL
SPEKTRE (TEMPORAL GHEISZT) – 126 -DISSOLVE HE SHALL, KEY OF IT ALL, PARTICLE, SHATTERED, WE ARE NONE
ASPEKTRE (IDIOSYNCRATIC GHEISZT) – 127- TALISMANIC, JOYOUS DEATH, THEREIN, HOUSE TO DWELL, EQUINOX, THINE ART
PROSPEKTRE (The SUPRA-SELF-SPEKTRE; the GHEISZT IN SUPERPOSITION, The NEON SELF)
171 – DEEP TRANCE, HITHER HOMEWARD, KING OF CUPS, KINGS FOREVER, SECRET FLAME
DIM SESSION – atmosphere conjuration through active symphonic conduction of the senseS (artistic AND metaphysical) / dimming the contrived to introduce the unfathomable
134 – GRIMOIRE, VIBRATION, TESSERACT, INSPIRED, THE CHALICE, KING OF DISKS, DELIVERED, BECOMING, REVEL & HAUNT
HOWLROUND – The triadic formula of Hauntomancy: the common key for psychikal interactivity; focused acts that actively charge the gheiszt in a metaphysical feedback communion loop with the Phantokon and its phases: DISOLVER ECO RESONAR
72 – ATTACK, BLOOD FLOW, FLOWERS, CURSE, I WILL SHOW, OTHER, OPEN, TOMB, EVER, ALL MUST
DISOLVER – 90 – PEACE, ROOK
ECO – 45 – SATAN, HORUS
RESONAR – 76 – SEEKER, WEIRDO
HAUNTOMANCY – the communion of undead selves, both lived and unlived, through the dissolution of the known, echoed amplification of the intentional, and creative culmination in resonant infinitum
131 – WE THE HALLOWED, SERPENT, EXORCIST, I AM LIMINAL, MANIFEST, THE VOICE, THE HIDDEN, head of St. John…
HAUNTOMANCER – also: phantomancer – spektral signal flow conjuror, conducter and creator
153 – CONSCIOUSNESS, LOVE CHANT SING, MY RAPTURE, SECRET KEY, SEE & STRIKE
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*81 – TRUTH, US THE LAW, THE HOLY, LOVE SONG, SO I SWEAR, THE DARK
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