The First Church of David Bowie, Phonomancer

  You’re here today so I can teach you about phonomancy. You need to know about phonomancy if you’re going to be a part of the new jukebox musical I’m putting together, The First Church of David Bowie Shamanic Cabaret. This should be the easiest writing assignment ever. I’ve been thinking about this non-stop for nearly five years. I have a great deal of useful information to impart to you. It’s just that the whole thing is so gigantic I don’t know where to begin. What is phonomancy? It’s a method for inducing visionary trance. It’s based on singing and dancing along to popular songs while on a hefty dose of psychedelic mushrooms (and other substances). With enough practice, it can create a state the religious scholars call gnosis, meaning, first-hand, direct experience of the Divine. You can see—and talk—to God. Gods. All kinds of things, actually. I believe it was TV’s Dr. House who said, “If you talk to God, you’re religious. If God talks to you, you’re psychotic.” That’...

  Hey! Here's the report I filed for the phonomantic rite held on Sunday, May 30th, 2021.   And here is the transcription of my narration of my experience: “Up and Atom” This was noteworthy for two reasons. Before the song started, I was confronted with Resistance in the form of an African tribal deity. Its initial presentation was as a swarm of brown and black beads streaming out of the jungle. These resolved into tiny gorilla heads, and then these gathered into a massive ball that became the head of an idol. It was utterly opposed to me—it had something to do with racial grievance. And I engaged it and told it was right to be pissed, but that I would work to make things right. So I moved on, and in the context of working with the song , I started to see a white glow in the bottom periphery of my awareness. She was a sun. I could feel it roaring through. There was a sense that I was enclosing it, like a Dyson sphere, and I was absorbing as much of the energy as ...

  Here's the Powerpoint presentation for the talk I gave at tonight's Ontological Spelunker's Union meeting. Thanks for your interest! Here's a link to the videos: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CrMd668htkH-RbwjCaYY6KKWfcGpjA7S?usp=sharing Here's the Spotify playlist for the FCDB Phonomantic Rite: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6yXYHHb8divYnMGMYdtXTe?si=lA3cVa4ISUyhJfDZuUtBIg Here's the YouTube playlist for the FCDB phonomantic rite music videos (use these if you're actually going to do the Rite): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi_JC-XSg2ayJMyFvzgCw40i23IcS-WIx And here is the script from the talk: Two Popular Approaches to Psychedelics - 1 Hey, thanks for coming to my talk tonight. It’s about 30 minutes long, so I’m just going to blast through it. If you’ve got questions, please type them into the chat, and I’ll answer them at the end. Things are going to get pretty weird, so I hope you’ll stick with me ‘til then. I’m going to start ...