Influences Errantes – A Metempsychotic Séance

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Release Date: 2012-05-30

Label: Reue Um Reue

Side A recorded in 2010
by Niedowierzanie

Side B recorded in 2009
at the Irrational Studios by J. Grey

C50 professionally duplicated audio cassette.
Black shell with 1-flap inlay in 4 different artworks.
Limited hand-numbered edition of 80 copies.

A text from Réne Guénon is printed on the inlay:
"These forces include those which are by their nature closer to the corporeal world and to physical forces and which consequently will be more easily manifested when they come into contact with the sensible domain by the intermediary of a living organism, that of a medium, for example, or by any other means. Now these forces are precisely the most inferior of all and therefore those whose effects can be the most baneful, and for this reason they should be most carefully avoided. In the cosmic order, they correspond to the lowest regions of the "subconscious" of the human being; all the forces generically denominated by Far-Eastern tradition as "wandering influences" must be grouped here. The management of those forms constitutes the most important part of magic; and their manifestations - sometimes spontaneous - give rise to all kinds of phenomena, of which "haunting" is the most commonly known. These forces are, in sum, all the non-individualized energies, of which there are naturally many different kinds. Some of them can be truly "demoniacal" or "satanic", and it is these notably that are used in sorcery. Furthermore, spiritist practices can often attract them, although involuntarily; the medium is a being whose unfortunate constitution gives him a kind of affinity for all that is least commendable in this world and even in the inferior worlds. We must also include in this category of "wandering influences" all those elements coming from the deceased that may occasion sensible manifestations, for it is a question of elements that are no longer individualized. Such is the Ob itself, and such, all the more, are all the psychic elements of lesser importance which are "the product of the disintegration of the unconscious (or better, "subconscious") of a dead person."

René Guénon in "The Spiritist Fallacy", Part I, Explanation of Spiritist Phenomena

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