Before we discuss this episode's Audiomancy... The Divergent Magick Grimoire is now out on hardback:

All musick heard was performed live & recorded live to 4 track cassette tape.   Because it is recorded live and on cassette tape, and because everything is improvised, sound quality may vary! But I exalt the warts and all as these rituals are vulnerable exorcisms.

This "Living Lore Film Score" was composed of two completely improvised DIM SESSIONS (or Audiomancy Rituals) performed and recorded on 12/24 & 12/25 utilizing a new ritual setup. These gusts of creative abandon evoke the PROSPECTRE from the Hauntomancy Workings of HAUNT MANUAL by marrying the SPECTRE ∴ ASPECTRE and all that came from 2023's raucous sound magick works!

Here is the 2023 Videosigil Vigil of these very Dim Sessions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfpI72K7dWM&t=2285s

I also composed a Haunt Manual piece that goes more in-depth about its tethers and sections:

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2024 will be the YEAR OF THE DIVERGENT MAGICK ANARCHIC GRIMOIRE! A workbook and schema I published to assist in organizing, creating, and deconstructing the rituals, big and small, that make your own personal folklore!: https://a.co/d/e5GKbsP

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This is the premiere episode of the fully analog (recorded & constructed) HAUNTOMANCY TAPES series of analog sound magicks kasted into the aether of the modern ‘podcasting’ current. This series that treats the medium like a Dharmic Vajra and wields heavy art and musings through Hauntomancy, Audiomancy, collaborations, exaltations and vexations.  

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SHOWNOTES:

This initial episode of the analog Hauntomancy (hauntology-of-the-self-audiomancy & magick) cassette cast was constructed with haunted and archaic ways of recording and production. Computers were only used for final sound quality and distribution.  

All musick heard was performed live & recorded live to 4 track cassette tape.   

The 2023 Videosigil Vigil live Audiomancy (Sound Magick) Dim Sessions tether the piece throughout. If a track is not noted, it is from this very session:

BIG NEWS! I HAVENT ANNOUNCED YET (WAITING ON THEM TO ARRIVE…) 2024 will be the YEAR OF THE DIVERGENT MAGICK ANARCHIC GRIMOIRE! A workbook and schema I published to assist in organizing, creating, and deconstructing the rituals, big and small, that make your own personal folklore!: https://a.co/d/e5GKbsP

Use the PRAGMAGICK blank journal to help sketch your magicks or use with the DIVERGENT MAGICK grimoire! https://a.co/d/97iCJv8

I aim to marry true communion with the thirdmind of neither analog, either/or digital in my audiomantic works, BUT BOTH with intentional and ritualistic means– free from digital sequencing or using samples of any kind outside my own custom ones made from my somatic creating. I’m not going full Steve Albini as I still believe in the DAW as a magickal tool, but I will be utilizing the digital audio workspace only for distribution, audio cleanup and mixing / mastering — largely keeping its infinite ease to “create” at bey, as the easing of many of rough and tumble processes of recording and songwriting, let alone audiomancy and podcasting, have fallen victim to indistinguishable and dishonest bores of same-y-ness.

Staring at a computer screen to easily non-linear edit a cut-up of stock samples or auto-generating noise all have their place within the umbrella of audiomancy, just not with me! It’s easy to make something clean and standard! I believe true audiomancy lies within the somatic experience — the abandonment of expectation, and the invocation and celebration of human error — to conjure my personal communion with the self and the other… so… Everything is performed live (aside from my haunted 70’s analog rhythm machine, Herbert, and custom programming played from a Korg Drum Machine) – each sonick #musick #soundsigil is #improvised utilizing only #glossolalia to channel “words” where there were never any! Warts and all!

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I’m trying something new. Think of this audio-cast as an audiomantic footnote for the whole of HAUNT MANUAL, my multi-media grimoire, and think of the companion literary chapter as shownotes to this wonderful audio-cast. There are magicks and arts separate from one another, but together they form a multi-media third mind, or thirdscene...

WREN COLLIER LINKS:

Wren Collier, a storied ufology researcher, occult practitioner, and general rad-brained rambler authored the online New Aeon English Qabalah (ALW Cipher) gematria calculator, NAEQ.IO, with techgnosistitician and glitch-witch, Alynne Keith. A simple tool that calculates the numerical value of the cipher from any word or phrase prompt. It has been my most used techno-magickal tool since decoding my hauntomancy workings, such as the Prospectre Ritual, since.

It is rare that this analog/digital daemon dips into the software pool of occult tools, but this one is as simple and as extraordinarily useful without impeding many processes that are often sacrificed in technological magicks by their lonesome. It could be argued that the long process of equating the words with paper and long-maths is a deeply held praxis, and to that I agree, however, it is simply a tool for me within a barrage of majorly physical processes within my workings. I’ve done both, but love to love the simple calculator to allow for passing thoughts or walking epiphanies to be quickly computed and logged in my lexicon.

Wren Collier is an avid scholar of the paranormal, having been obsessed from an early age with the anomalous and the occult. He is currently working on several projects, including a guide to modern necromancy, a online calculator utilizing the New Aeon English Qabalah, and an indie dungeon crawler.

He sells fine occult tools and materia at Atelier Argent and runs an occult and anomalistics focused Discord server called Lunar Cry.

Wren Collier is an occultist and Thelemite living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a frequent contributor on the "Where Did The Road Go?" podcast, as well as contributing to projects like NAEQ.IO and the Lunar Cry occult community. He also sells fine occult goods at his Etsy store, Atelier Argent, and is working on his first book, "CTHONIA", an exploration of katabasis narratives, underground kingdoms, pulp sci-fi, and the Hollow Earth. He has been a presenter and organizer for the Strange Realities conference in Nashville, TN for the past three years. He can be found at liminalroom.com 

He can be reached via email at [email protected]

My partner and I are touring the southwest and southern California with our musicks. Stay tuned for more info dates and, especially, a limited edition tour-talisman as a split E.P. between my REVEL ROSZ and her MOON DIVISION heteronyms!

You can listen to the demo from this E.P., "SAYANCER" via Soundcloud or via Bandcamp on the NEW MOON 14th:

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This is Pragmagick Episode features the full PROSPECTRE (Audiomancy) Ritual performed and documented on 3/23. This working is the “thridscene” (∴) for my living, multi-media grimoire, HAUNT MANUAL: http://hauntmanual.com

“This is PART 1 of an inner-episodic series concerning the Prospectre Ritual: its decoding of its paranormal transmissions and ritual results, interviews discussing its hypotheses (am I communicating with ultraterriestrials, pareidolia, Holy Guardian Angels or the SUPRA-SELF?) all connected to the multi-media grimoire, Haunt Manual. This is the third working (Spectre / Aspectre/ PROSPECTRE) that utilizes my audiomancy with a spirit box to commune with the “other”. Next episode I speak with Wren Collier about The ALW CIPHER & NAEQ.IO, a tool I used to decipher the Prospectre’s spirit box transmissions while punch-pondering about ultraterrestials, the confluence of the occult and ufology, personal folklore and more.”

The HAUNT MANUAL anarchic lexicon thus far:

Full HAUNT MANUAL Literature on the PROSPECTRE ritual:

Subscribe to The Living Multi-Media Grimoire, Haunt Manual: http://hauntmanual.com 

All sounds by Keats Ross / Revel Rosz – nothing programmed, everything performed and manipulated live.

Thumbnail art of REVELATOR ROSZ by Eric J. Millar:

Intro musick is “SAYANCER” from an upcoming REVEL ROSZ E.P. inspired by the Haunt Manual Workings: https://soundcloud.com/revel-rosz/sayancer

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All sounds, editing, musick and art (Unless otherwise noted):

We are now looking for submissions!

This will be a non-profit labor of love, with the goal of providing a collection of audio offerings which have been organized according to aesthetic and made available for free digital download.

What can I submit? 

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ASPECTRE (Audiomancy From The Unrealized Film) by ECTOGASM

Through the sinew of 22-23, I created and casted “ASPECTRE” under the moniker ECTOGASM. The music was recorded and performed as a live-streamed audiomancy ritual for my Hauntomancy workings (as explored in my Haunt Manual). I decided to clean it up and create an unrealized film score; I named the tracks utilizing various cut-ups of my literary works and ideas. The album is on bandcamp and will have a major release on all streaming platforms next month.

Watch The Full ECTOGASM “ASPECTRE” DIM SESSION:

“ASPECTRE”- Audiomancy From An Unrealized Film Score“ morphs my audiomancy and multimedia grimoire Haunt Manual “Dim Sessions”  into a melodic, cinematic cacophony of ramshackle analog/circuitry lust!

This is the first of many under my long dormant ECTOGASM moniker, and all correlate to hauntology-of-the-self magickal workings as evidenced in my recent Pragmagick episodes.

All sounds were performed live, you can watch the ritual on the PRAGMAGICK youtube. This ritual specifically used cassette and Casio manipulation, but every ritual differs.

PRAGMAGICK: http://www.pragmagick.com

I have been inspired to utilize these Dim Sessions to conjure audiomantic records by turning these improvised sets into the muscular skeletons of formal albums…

The audio is the last Haunt Manual chapter’s “DIM SESSION” in all its glory while its companion, the thirdscene, is constructed…

My closing audiomantic ritual (“Dim Session”) for the soon-to-be-released Haunt Manual chapter (and conclusion of “Sine Wave Serpents”) was performed this week. The mechanics of instrumentation (talismans) utilized for the improvised set, like all prior, are deeply intentional and correlate to the hauntological workings professed in the chapter’s innards. This is why all ritual scores for the Haunt Manual audio chapters have been so radically different. This one utilizes lo-fi cassette manipulation, an old casio keyboard and a live-programmed drum machine to match the human error integration with automaton spits and spurts of my own overarching developments.

This recent musical experiment reminded me of the want to create a channeled lo-fi electronic and film-score-centric project entitled ECTOGASM (I reserved the name and its bandcamp years ago- which further proves the hauntomancy made manifest by bridging synapses long forgotten!) I also have been inspired to utilize these Dim Sessions to conjure audiomantic records by turning these improvised sets into the muscular skeletons of formal albums, but more on that later…

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Speaking of the Haunt Manual, my last chapter, Sine Wave Serpents Divisions I & II, have been compiled for the audio and visual companion. I created an enriching videomantic edit to accompany the audio chapter (which was wide released via the Pragmagick podcast). You can view/listen here:

My last Dakota Slim record, BARDOS, is now on Spotify and will be available on all streaming platforms within the week. The record was constructed during the height of the pandemic while stationed in Colorado. It encapsulates a horrowing introspection and punching yearn to break through the barriers of self-imposed exile within mental health, addiction and the year long mile-high sabbatical of awkward off-set localization:

Finally had a formal chat with dear friend and metalsmith mage, JJ, of REINE DE BLANC designs. We discuss wayfaring wanderlust, artistry and her brilliant work as a metal-smith that creates talismans and ornaments of power and protection. I always adore peaking through tactile mediums of art and magick, and the alchemy of metallurgy is a brilliant confluence of both.

I was able to usher in the autumnal swing as a guest on two fantastic shows. The first one was friend and February-brother-from-another-number, Dive & Hunt Manual writer (and progenitor of the Haunt Manual title), Anthony Tyler’s Black Hoodie Alchemy on the Fringe.FM.

From Anthony Tyler:

Keats talks to us about his multi-media work that he’s entitled “Haunt Manual” discussing the aspects of our characters, our egos, our minds, and our lives that haunt us.

We talk quite a bit about both eastern and western esotericism, discussing ritual and ceremony in drug rehabilitation and other forms of therapy, the archetypes of hungry ghosts and demons and angels, and the alchemical process of rooting around in our own minds in order to purify and renew what we’ve thrown away through trauma and misunderstanding.

We also talk a little bit about Keats’ history growing up with his father, a man who hosted a show very similar to the ones Keats and I host! Through his father, Keats met as a child prominent names such as Robert Anton Wilson and even Timothy Leary, which helped to inspire his own pursuits to this day.

Pull the cosmic trigger: search back through the stories and art that inspired you as a child, forgive yourself for your mistakes, stop letting nostalgia and regret torment you, and dig deep into your psyches to forgive and renew the aspects that haunt you.

I recently posted my appearance via an article on WE THE HALLOWED and the audio via the PRAGMAGICK podcast RSS: https://wethehallowed.org/feed/podcast/*

I also got to spend Halloween day with fellow We The Hallowed Haunt Michelle Embree (of the Secret Antenna Podcast and writer of Daydream Tarot) reading and discussing Tarot while also dipping into the raditudes of Anarchism, our We The Hallowed collective and having way too much fun. Also, read her reoccurring Tarot column on WE THE HALLOWED!

If you fancy some deeper naval-gazing and terror-tinkering from yours truly, you can be consistently updated with HAUNT MANUAL drafts, full albums, patreon-only streams, video journals and a veritable holler of art and magicks via PATREON for just a bone a month.

Make sure to subscribe to my PRAGMAGICK YOUTUBE to view “liminalstream” chats and get notified when my sporadic live audiomancy rituals/performances are being streamed!

Since my personal facebook (and its subsequent project pages) were unceremoniously deleted without warning or reason, I have attempted to start fresh. You can follow the new pages for PRAGMAGICK and DAKOTA SLIM.

As always, I am available on INSTAGRAM (both PRAGMAGICK & DAKOTA SLIM) and the drifting ghost-ship that is TWITTER.

Please subscribe to our international media magicks collective WE THE HALLOWED and check out the updated site. Eric Millar and I have been hard at work redressing and adorning the page for a new era, the haunted aeon!

Stay tuned for the next multi-media grimoire installment of HAUNT MANUAL (the conclusion of SINE WAVE SERPENTS) and the plethora of haunted hollers from this here crooked feller and…

I had the pleasure of guesting on brother-from-another-February-number Anthony Tyler’s wonderful fringe.fm broadcast, Black Hoodie Alchemy. I have spoken to Anthony via the  PRAGMAGICK audiocast as well as an appearance on the PRAGMAGICK liminalstream series in the past which you may find here:

∴ Anthony’s first appearance on the Pragmagick AudioCast:

∴ Anthony’s recent Pragmagick Liminalstream appearance:

I have grown very fond of Anthony’s rugged resolve considering all the self-spelunking and trans-dimensional wayfaring he surfs!

Also, Anthony wrote two extremely compelling books, one of which fellow WtH haunt, Adorner Millar, designed the book cover for which you can find at: DIVEMIND.net

I’ll let Anthony speak on the rest. Haunt on!

You can listen to the episode right here!

Yes, it’s gonna be a form of hungry-ghost-busting! Keats talks to us about his multi-media work that he’s entitled “Haunt Manual” discussing the aspects of our characters, our egos, our minds, and our lives that haunt us.

We talk quite a bit about both eastern and western esotericism, discussing ritual and ceremony in drug rehabilitation and other forms of therapy, the archetypes of hungry ghosts and demons and angels, and the alchemical process of rooting around in our own minds in order to purify and renew what we’ve thrown away through trauma and misunderstanding.

We also talk a little bit about Keats’ history growing up with his father, a man who hosted a show very similar to the ones Keats and I host! Through his father, Keats met as a child prominent names such as Robert Anton Wilson and even Timothy Leary, which helped to inspire his own pursuits to this day.

Pull the cosmic trigger: search back through the stories and art that inspired you as a child, forgive yourself for your mistakes, stop letting nostalgia and regret torment you, and dig deep into your psyches to forgive and renew the aspects that haunt you.

Check out all of Keats’ material here:

The featured music this week is all courtesy of Keats Ross and his artistic alter ego, Dakota Slim — an ego that is brought up plenty throughout this conversation of ours:

Courtesy of Anthony’s DiveMind.net – a rich source for all Anthony’s writing, broadcasting and trans-dimensional wayfaring.

Welcome to an ongoing series entitled Haunt Manual that is both an audiocast and column on wethehallowed.org, with the full chapter on substack. In this fluid, multi-media grimoire I will document my ongoing praxis to commune with my contradictory ghost, to rediscover and reveal the tenets of our anarchic collective We The Hallowed, and discuss all artistic and magickal practices involved. The music beneath is an improvised audiomancy liminalstream I will be conjuring for each installment, you can view it in full at youtube.com/c/pragmagick

Division I:  https://keatsross.substack.com/p/sine-wave-serpents-division-i

Division II: https://keatsross.substack.com/p/sine-wave-serpents-division-ii

The Improvised Audiomancy ritual that is the subject and scores this audio chapter:

Please subscribe to the SUBSTACK for the literary chapters of the HAUNT MANUAL:

The Audiocast versions of the chapters are available, when completed, wherever pods are casted via the PRAGMAGICK current:

Haunt Manual’s first chapter, “Neither Either Or”, is available to read and/or listen in full at:

Read the first two divisions of the next Haunt Manual chapter, “Sine Wave Serpents” at

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More to come. This was an improvised dance around a sonic motif and a set tempo – will be doing more of these as I’m figuring out mixing for liminalstreams moving forward. Thought I’d stream some goofing around with creating background music for an upcoming video project while I test things. HAUNT ON

Please subscribe to the SUBSTACK for the literary chapters of the HAUNT MANUAL:

The Audiocast versions of the chapters are available, when completed, wherever pods are casted via the PRAGMAGICK current:

This was the audiomantic score to the first chapter of the Haunt Manual’s audiocast, “Neither Either Or”, read the chapter in full at:

Read the first two divisions of the next Haunt Manual chapter, “Sine Wave Serpents” at

Support:

Welcome to an ongoing series entitled Haunt Manual that is both an audiocast and column on wethehallowed.org, with the full chapter on substack. In this fluid, multi-media grimoire I will document my ongoing praxis to commune with my contradictory ghost, to rediscover and reveal the tenets of our anarchic collective We The Hallowed, and discuss all artistic and magickal practices involved. The music beneath is an improvised audiomancy liminalstream I will be conjuring for each installment, you can view it in full at youtube.com/c/pragmagick

I am haunted.

I find myself in a static stasis, reverberating in place. Like the Tower Card, it’s as if I’m always exploding foundations and rebuilding in a constant loop. I often compare myself to the Dharma Bum, a beat-ific idea of anarchic freedom, snickering at the rubble and ash beneath, never tied to what came before. But the thing is, I am haunted. I am haunted by extremes – whether it‘s being an aloof instigator of a creative community, or a dogma-less routine-driven magician. I have never given proper communion to this ghost, this tether to all things pragmatic and artistic, this innate contradiction within all that I do.

I would balk and run from memory, and find myself arrested as to where and how to move forward with nothing truly gained. In hindsight, it’s an old tale about doomed repetition. But I know this ghost simply yearns to be both, or something different altogether. How do I commune with this specter of self? How do I find the “third mind” of energetic revelation between the opposites I find myself forever wrestling. How do I, as a spontaneous creative, become a stable magician? Is it possible?

The past few months I caught a whiff of being in front of the oncoming Tower. I can see the revolutions of self before me, whether it be behaviors and actions, or environmental interactions. Where will I be next year? Will anything be resolved? Will I continue to churn and burn through habitual sabotage and struggle? Perhaps it is time to finally consort the elements that birthed my contradictory ghost.

My habitual process during these times of existential stress finds myself lamenting on all that I need to rid or exorcise. I find myself hitting black mesas and shallow plateaus looking and looking outward, and I get disgruntled and bungled even more so. But I aim to go about this differently this time: I need to remember and invoke/evoke why I’ve created servitors such as Dakota Slim, Pragmagick, and We The Hallowed. It is time to investigate the inspirations and machinations that have brought me my muse. And it has occurred to me that this same ghost, the one howling underneath, has been both my poison and antidote all along…

I want to give a big thanks to Eric J. Millar and Michelle Embree for their input concerning this piece. And of course, all the amazing patrons that have stayed with me as I swayed these past couple of months. Thank you Brittany Brown, Bibi, CW Chanter, Jonicide, Jilly Beans, Michelle Embree, Corrie Anne, Spooky, Derek Hunter, Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, Carl Abrahammson, Tony Davis, Vanessa Kindell and Arnemancy for your ongoing support.

I have almost weekly patreon livestreams that act as sort of a magickal and mental health be-in for friends and patrons, as well as unreleased music, documenting my Taos plans with cohort Logan Ford, Haunt Manual drafts, watch parties, the WtH discord and plenty of musings. I am far more prolific there, and you can join for just one bone at patreon.com/pragmagick

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Episode “The Third Mind” with Dr. Vanessa Sinclair: https://wethehallowed.org/pragmagick-24/

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Jacque Derrida’s “Dissemination” (1972) in .pdf format:

http://xenopraxis.net/readings/derrida_dissemination.pdf

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