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Paraquence (noun)
= a parallel sequence, referring to the string of coexisting events with different outcomes, taking place at the same time at the same place: no one propositional realities is more valid that any other
= in science-fiction, refers to a co-existence of (an infinite number of) parallel universes
= in daily life, hypothetical scenarios when one tries to construct possible situations, imagining what happens at the same time, in another place.

(neologism from HR Sommer Akemie Zentrum Paul Klee, 2014)
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(Footnote in a text by Valentina Desideri on Painting Sculpture Sound, Jessica Warboys, 2015)

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Space fell asleep dreaming of time.

Dream Imitation by Alina Popa
Unsorcery

Goodnight!
Goodnap!
Goodmap!
Goodmight!

Wondering about a syntax and method that could best explore - - - - - - - - - - - -writing
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Parallel worlds coexisting. Parallel lines coexisting.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -not lines that follow each other but lines that are in paraquence
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -note lines that accompany each other- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - like tides each time bringing layers of the sea on the land,
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One person falls asleep for 14 mins
and one person falls awake for 14 mins
One person naps, one person maps.

reflecting on the practice of accompanying another person to transition from place to place, space to space, time to time, dimension to dimension or/and parasequently.

HON

SHA

ZE

SHO

NEN

(Having No Past, Present or Future)

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When dreaming is treated as a praxis, and the dream as just another medium, like the actual world, then to pass from waking life to the dreamworld is to switch between equally existent worlds, to travel from one medium to the another. The transversal navigation between these worlds-as-medium is made possible by the disruptive moments of waking up and falling asleep.Through falling asleep or falling awake, worlds leak into each other, deviate each other, acting through a reciprocal corruption of their respective modes of (dis) organization)

....................................................................................................................................Reiki to the space......................................................... Golden Zaal......................................................Beursschouwburg, Brussels

"Today is Monday, if by Saturday this little friend has recovered her vertices, maybe what we are doing it´s working"

In geometry, a pyramid is a polyhedron formed by connecting a polygonal base and a point, called the apex. Each base edge and apex form a triangle, called a lateral face. It is a conic solid with polygonal base. A pyramid with an n-sided base has n + 1 vertices, n + 1 faces, and 2n edges. All pyramids are self-dual.

The school of magic·k starts from the postulate of the existence of clairvoyance as a latent and undisclosed shared force, using discreet techniques to convey the invisible and challenge accepted understandings of self, intention and encounter.

If clairvoyance is often attributed to the realm of extraordinary characters and gifted persons, the idea of a school, on the opposite, brings about the notion of transmission while focusing on learning rather than education. The school of magic·k is thought of as a local meeting point to gather and prepare tools in order to prefigure forms of living and loving that encourage worldly action.

The term Studio here refers both to the activity of study and to the dance studio. If we take study as a kind of sociability* and the dance studio as the place where rehearsal, transversal experimentation and immaturity comprise the rule, then a studio is an invocation to "ensemble" in specific ways that enable uncertain and speculative learning.

Introducation to A Studio in Hand-Reading: Charlotte Wolff at Kunstverein, Amsterdam by Valentina Desideri

*Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (Brooklyn:Minor Compositions, 2013),p.26

On the necessity to create
words for naming
perceptions and
therefore expanding their agency.

Emile Boirac, Traité de la Double Vue

Altéroscopie: the ability to diagnose the body of someone else
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Autoscopie: the ability to diagnose one's onw body
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VIRTUAL SOMATIC MAPS

Beurschouwburg Curriculum
March 1 - 6, 2021

DAY 1

Check in: Acknowledging desires, intentions, ongoing and past processes that will form and inform this spacetime.
Making space for what we came for and what we came with, for what we know we know, what we know we don't know, and what we don't know we know.

Preparing the bodies, tools and spaces. Setting/Synching the studios for study.

Tuning in: reading and being read, reading the space/setting the space as a page for the writing to come.

(R"k)

On Paraquence: Re-reading Valentina's introduction to 'A studio in Hand Reading'

DAY 2

Tuning in. Writing a map into the body. Anatomy as virtual somatic paths, and guidance.

Collapsing time and space: Remote companionship to accompany a friend at the threshold of another life. Location, Larzac hospital, Millau, France.
Witnessing -------------
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accompanying -----------

On the un-importance of slicing: drawing the line to maintain integrity between entities and energies or surrendering to be undone and implicated in a flow of entities and energies.

NapMap: Parasequence, accompanying autonomous parallel processes of falling in and awakening from mediums

Medium Smugglers, Spatio Temporal Gangsters: Re-reading Alina Popa's 'Imitation of a Dream'
The slicing of world-mediums. "A switch between equally existent worlds, to travel from one medium to another"

(Something else happened)

69: transmission and reception loopholes.

DAY 3

Writing the body into the map. Anatomy as virtual somatic path and guidance.

The receiver is the giver. Switching positions in situations. Receiving by touching, giving by being touched.

Re-writing Alina Popa's Imitation of a dream with our eyes.

Conversation on the virtuality of the body and the watery lexicon of the digital world, over a soft boiled egg.

Drawing portals and nodes in space and mind. Refining reading and writing of codes/spells.

DAY 4

Opening with reiki practice - trying the medium version for the first time:the person giving is "only" an instrument to the body´s needs of the person receiving. The person receiving sets an intention in the beginning and informs the giver of when that intention is set.

Checking out the scene in Ghost (the movie) where Whoopi Goldberg says "ok, you can use my body" as an example of the role of the medium.
Being disappointed that in the movie you don´t see Whoopi's body kissing Demi Moore, or a mix of the two, but instead is full on Patrick Swayze.

Reading Ewé by Pierre Fatumbi Verger

Call at 16:00 with Estéfano Romani, psychological astrologer a.k.a @moonguy
talked about his path of interest, sister psychoanalist, mother and father astrologers, many Candomble medium friends. About how to tune in empathy and how to tune out at the end of a consultation. Is that necessary to maintain some self integrity or collective equilibrium?
About different types of astrology, Inception Astrology allows to consult an event, and object or a relationship by its decided inception date. Elective Astrology can help decide dates for marriages, depending on the desire of what is wished for that marriage, for example.
To the question of the relation between intuition and technique Estéfano, read a beautiful story from a book on Predictive Astrology, The Eagle and the Lark. The Eagle is knowledge, technique and skill flying high in the realm of gods, but shameful of their voice. The Larp is a tiny bird with a beautiful voice who ambitiously wishes to reach the skies to share their voice with the gods, but too small to reach the high skies. Eventually the Larp and the Eagle.
We finished the conversation with a bad internet connection and decided to take it on again another time.
Simon followed the conversation with a voice message that rose a question that was floating in the air, what is the un/importance of closing the session for you?

The Gift/The burden, or A message for you from you.

One needs to be in relation to tools and practices of scrying to scry first.
The setting is informing and forming as much as the subject(s) experiencing the setting. The medium is the messenger and the mail at the same time reaching its addressee (the practitioner).

DAY 5

Gathering thoughts with Carolina Mendonça.

Conversation on candomblé, visitation and the implications for the host and their vessel (their bodies).
On the latency of amnesia and the lack of traces in extra sensory perception and magic practices.
On the 'toucher touché' and the necessity to respect a threshold.
On the notion of membrane and viscuosity in 'Astrida Neimanis Hydro Feminism: On Become Bodies of Water', in regard to the notion of medium.
On scrying as complexifying the reading (Denise da Silva Ferreira).

4 hands R"k on Carolina.
'what is the necessity in calling you back as a name?' 'You don't need a name if you know the address (where I lay)'

Scrying by reading: pedadogogia dela encrucijadas.
What is necessity of slicing/cutting through the medium for oneself or for the environment?

Reading through Jeanne Favret-Saada 'Deadly Words: Witchcraft in the Bocage'.
There are actually no witches to start with. A witch is an outcome of a process of accusation to connect and personify a series of events (misfortunes becoming deeds that needs a clear doer). No one calls themselves a witch.

Conversation on forms of social protections, and behavioural talismans

Re-reading K-Hole Report On Doubt #5 "Seeing the future ≠ changing the future." on trend divination and the witchcraft of corporations with the sirens practice (voices echoing in simultaneous yet not unison reading).
http://khole.net/issues/05/

"DAY 6

Arrived together to the Golden Zaal after spending time since 18.00 yesterday to 10:00 now. We have been roughly working between 10 - 18, so between 1+0 = 1 to 6 (in numerology), and the days between 1 - 6 of March. Coincidence?

10:00 conversation with Margaux Schwarz on working as a psychic/medium and how to form a technique that works for one. Different techniques between Margaux and Olivia (medium sister). Margaux starts by receiving a full name and its sonic, visual and linguistic information, followed by question/s from the client to open a long conversation (of about 3 hours). Talked about the importance of a clear question. Olivia starts by receiving a full name followed by writing a letter to the client prior to the meeting and then consulting the letter, shorter sessions. On her practice as an artist and the relation to medium practice. Questioning the need to separate them. Questioning the line between life and the practice as a medium. In the daily life Margaux's psychic abilities are not there, it is only when space-time is set up for the medium reading and the full name of the person's reading.
On a common thread that starts to link many conversation and practices in this container: amnesia, the loss of memory, not remembering what has happened during the session.

13:30 Visit from Elisa Liepsch, performing arts programmer of Beursschouwburg. Recap of the week and the timing of Discreet Techniques/SoM. Slow rendering and high resolution ratio? Talked about the possible next residency. Talked about how the school appears and invites as, and how do we invite other practitioners. Offered Elisa a reiki session, it was her first one.

Closed with the intentions of:
- let practitioners augment
- if there is a message we are happy to meet the messenger
- this is only the beginning.

Magick persons

A magick person is a person, alive or dead, present or remote, invited to learn from, practice with, and think along.

Carolina Mendonça
Margaux Schwarz
Elia David
Jeanne Favret-Saada
K-Hole
Harry Potter
Whoopie Goldberg, Demie Moore and Patrick Swayze
Estéfano Romani a.k.a @moonguy
Pierre Fatumbi Vergé
Astrida Neimanis
Denise da Silva Fereira
Valentina Desideri
Alina Popa

DAYLIGHT
IS THE SESSION EVER CLOSING?
SUPER NATURAL AS SOMETHING SURROUNDING -ABOVE, BEYOND, OUTSIDE - THE NATURAL (THE REAL? THE NORMAL?). SUPER NATURAL COULD BE INTERPRETED AS WELL AS THAT WHICH IS VERY (SUPER!!!) REAL.
'SUPER NORMAL POWERS' AS WELL COULD BE THOUGHT AS THOSE DAILY ABILITIES OF SOMEONE OR SOMETHING, JUST THOSE REMARKABLY ORDINARY HABITS. PERHAPS THE SLICING IS NOT NEEDED?