Recorded 19th–20th c.
Shaman
Contact soughtSpirit helpers of the lower and upper worlds
The drum journey in the ethnographic record
A steady drum carries the practitioner out, to the meeting and back again at the call-back.
Google Play →For five thousand years, people have written down exact procedures for reaching angels, gods, spirits and God. We recreate those rituals from the manuscripts that preserve them, calculate them to your time and place, and carry them with digital entrainment. Each rite can be paired with live EEG neurofeedback that tracks the theta state the rites were built to reach.
A rite of contact was an exact procedure: the right name, at the right hour, under the right seal, in the right order. The manuscripts preserve the procedure but assume knowledge the operator was expected to bring, above all the calculations. Our work is to recover that missing knowledge and build it back in.
The seals, names, words and sequence are taken from the source manuscripts and rebuilt step by step. Nothing is modernised. The forms are the ones that were actually repeated for centuries.
Planetary days and hours, unequal hours from your local sunrise and sunset, the Moon's place, the degree of the zodiac. Each is computed for your exact location, so every rite opens at its proper time.
Binaural layers, drum and drone stand in for the temple and the chant. They guide the practitioner from waking toward theta, the state these rites describe.
The third book of the Lemegeton, preserved in the British Library (Sloane MS 2731), assigns a ruling angel and a seal to each of the twenty-four hours of day and night, and angels to the degrees of the zodiac. It gives the angels and draws the seals. It does not give the arithmetic. The operator was expected to divide daylight and darkness into unequal planetary hours by hand, for his own place and date.
The same approach runs through every rite below: find what the text assumes, calculate it, and set the procedure to the real sky.
Theta, roughly four to eight cycles per second, is the brain rhythm of the edge of sleep: hypnagogic imagery, deep meditation, the drum journey. It is the state these rites describe again and again, in which the operator is awake but no longer in ordinary waking consciousness.
Every rite has an EEG edition for the Neurosity Crown. During the rite the headset reads the practitioner live. A tone sounds when theta becomes dominant, a chime marks each burst of gamma, and the practitioner's own markers are saved with the signal for later study.
These prayers and conjurations were recited in the same words by generations of practitioners. The traditions held that the repetition itself carried power. The rabbis taught that angels are formed from speech. Later occultists called the presence built up by a community's sustained attention an egregore, reached again by anyone who repeats that community's exact forms. That is why the recreations keep the original names, seals and words.
Each recreation is listed under the period of its source, with the being it was written to reach, the text it is rebuilt from, and a direct link to Google Play.
The oldest rite of contact was never written down. Ethnographers on several continents recorded the same procedure: a steady drum, a journey out of the body, a meeting with spirit helpers, and a call-back.
Contact soughtSpirit helpers of the lower and upper worlds
The drum journey in the ethnographic record
A steady drum carries the practitioner out, to the meeting and back again at the call-back.
Google Play →The first written rites of contact. The gods are addressed by name in their temples, and protective beings are formed and summoned into the house.
Contact soughtThe Sumerian gods
Sumerian temple hymns and incantations
The deity is approached by its Sumerian name and epithets, with libation and incantation.
Google Play →Contact soughtThe seven sages of the Apsû
KAR 298, the Assur ritual tablet
Seven sage figures are formed, set about the house and addressed one by one by name, ending in an audience with them.
Google Play →For nearly three thousand years the same daily service was performed: the god was woken, purified, clothed, fed and addressed in fixed words.
Contact soughtThe gods of the temple
Pyramid and Coffin Texts; the offering formula
The god is woken, purified and given offerings, then addressed by name in the words of the temple liturgy.
Google Play →Greek religion called its gods by epithet and, at the sanctuaries of Asclepius, developed a technique for being visited by the god in sleep.
Contact soughtThe Olympian gods
Homeric and Orphic Hymns; the Greek Magical Papyri
Each god is called by epithet, lineage and seat, given its proper offering and asked to attend.
Google Play →Contact soughtAsclepius, in a dream
The Epidauros cure stelae; Pausanias; Aelius Aristides
After purification and offering, the petitioner sleeps on sacred ground and waits for the god to come in a dream.
Google Play →Jewish and Christian mystics turned contact upward and inward: an ascent through guarded heavens to the Throne, and unceasing prayer that keeps Christ present in the heart.
Contact soughtThe angels of the seven gates, and the Throne
Hekhalot Rabbati; Hekhalot Zutarti; 3 Enoch
The mystic passes seven palaces, showing a seal and speaking a name at each gate, until he stands before the Throne.
Google Play →Contact soughtChrist, in the heart
The Desert Fathers; the Philokalia
The name of Jesus is joined to the breath until the prayer continues without effort.
Google Play →Contact soughtChrist, through the hours
The Rule of St Benedict; the canonical hours
Attention returns to Christ at fixed hours of the day, each hour with its scripture.
Google Play →Arabic scholars systematised astral magic and the binding of the jinn under the seal of Solomon. In Latin translation their manuals became the foundation of the European grimoires.
Contact soughtThe jinn
Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm; the Testament of Solomon
In a drawn circle, under the hexagram seal, at the hour of its planet, the jinn is called, witnessed and released by license to depart.
Google Play →Contact soughtThe planetary powers
The Picatrix; Babylonian astral prayer
The operator faces the planet's real position in the sky, in its own day and hour, and invokes it.
Google Play →Contact soughtThe planetary rulers of the hours
The Chaldean order of the planetary hours
A working begins only in the hour of the planet that governs it.
Google Play →The grimoires set out angelic and spirit operations in full: hour, circle, seal, name and license to depart. John Dee recorded years of angelic sessions in his own hand.
Contact soughtThe angel of the present hour
The Heptameron; the Ars Paulina
The governing angel of each hour is identified by day and planet and addressed by name, office and seal.
Google Play →Contact soughtThe angels of Dee's Watchtowers
The diaries of John Dee and Edward Kelley
The forty-eight Calls, dictated in the angelic tongue, are recited to open the Watchtowers and Aethyrs.
Google Play →Contact soughtThe spirits of the Goetia
The Lemegeton; the Clavicula Salomonis
From within the circle, each spirit is called by its seal into the triangle, charged and discharged.
Google Play →Contact soughtThe intelligences of the sky
The Heptameron, the Ars Paulina and Agrippa
The ruling intelligences of each region of the sky, laid over the real sky in its season.
Google Play →Sound laboratories measured the threshold states the old rites describe and gave them numbers. Field researchers then built protocols for signalling to non-human intelligence from those states.
Contact soughtPresences beyond the body
Sound-laboratory protocols; the 1983 U.S. Army assessment
The body sleeps while the mind stays awake, carried stage by stage past the threshold.
Google Play →Contact soughtNon-human intelligence
Field contact protocols; the Merkaba visualisation
From a settled meditative state, a signal is sent by intention, light and sound.
Google Play →Recreations of historical practices, built from their sources. What the sources describe is reported as their claim; what you meet within the rite is your own record.