I had developed shin splints, and running was off the agenda. Never mind: walking was still available, so I wandered the city, and around the corner from home discovered a small, abandoned car park. Imagine that! A place where people could have been parking cars, but weren’t. The tarmac had become suffused by moss, which [...]
Posts Tagged ‘psychogeography’
The Shin Splint Drifts
Posted in Drift, tagged Bevendean, Irthlingborough, psychogeography on May 6, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Inside the Entrances to Hell
Posted in Astral, Outrageous Acts of Sorcery, tagged demon, entrances to Hell, ghostbox, gnome, psychogeography, spirit communication, video on April 9, 2012 | 8 Comments »
Last May, Alan Chapman and I visited four of Brighton & Hove’s seventy-two entrances into hell (as featured in previous articles on this site) to make a short film of our exploits. At Daffivisionomy we performed for the first time our ritual for opening hellmouths and encountered a psychotic spirit. At Chesney Peck we employed [...]
The Entrances to Hell of Brighton & Hove
Posted in Drift, Outrageous Acts of Sorcery, tagged Brighton & Hove, demon, entrances to Hell, psychogeography on February 19, 2011 | 8 Comments »
A website called entrances2hell is the original source, but its intention was mostly humorous, so I hope my work of the past six months, spent walking the streets of my home city, photographing, investigating and describing all 72 of its entrances into Hell, has added new dimensions to the genre. The places I’ve uncovered and [...]
The Chakra Walks
Posted in Drift, tagged Brighton, chakra, pendulum, psychogeography on December 10, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I had become dissatisfied with my abilities at using a pendulum. The answers it gave were too often misleading or plain wrong. So I banished the spirit that controls the pendulum and invited in another that promised it would do better. To build some rapport, I embarked on an exercise devised by Ramsey Dukes: asking [...]
A Field of Dreams
Posted in Consensus Reality, Drift, tagged dreaming, Gaston Bachelard, Irthlingborough, psychogeography on August 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If I’d had audio the recording would have included distant thunder, the pattering of sporadic rain, breezes amongst leafs, and intermittent cheers from the football stadium at the edge of town. It was a Saturday afternoon in August. Warm, but interrupted by showers running on an automatic cycle every thirty minutes. I was walking in [...]