Shocking Revelations From the Spirit World

Did a clairvoyant spirit predict my show moving to Brooklyn?

 

An exquisite corpse

Hello
Turning back
Explored enough?
Stanley
Clairvoyant
Hear
Talk
Hear it…with the heart
You’re safe
Our friend
Good book
I won’t hurt you
Asking you
Brooklyn

Free-associate amongst yourselves with those words and phrases as you read on. Let them percolate, let your mind fill in the blanks and make them make sense — make it into a narrative.  Get the idea? One of my favorite elements of the spirit box is that it puts a modern spin on the Surrealists’ old exquisite corpse parlor game.

Unless of course the spirit voices are real. It’s times like this when I hit a wall and become confounded. Let me explain the flabbergasting sequence of events.

1.  In mid-October my family and I squeezed in one last camping trip for the year at our beloved Pine Barrens, home to the Jersey Devil, Ong’s Hat and lots of sasquatch sightings.  Seems like a perfect place for an EVP session and I finally got around to trying it on 10/18/14. My wife and young son were exploring in the woods behind our lean-to and I seized on the moment to turn back, dart around to the far side of the lean-to for a moment of solitude and quiet, and turn on the box and my video camera for a minute and half. Just inside the lean-to was a book I’d brought with me which I was eager to finish: Annie Jacobsen’s bestseller Area 51. It was indeed a good book. The video is below and I’ve already given you the transcript above.  Mind you, I didn’t listen to it right away and forgot it was even on my camera.

2.  Three weeks later in early November an exciting opportunity fell into my lap for a possible New York premiere of Boneyards at a perfect venue in Brooklyn (details to follow as soon as dates are confirmed; I’m still in the midst of firming this up).

3.  Another week goes by, which brings me to this weekend. It’s now been a full month since I recorded the video.  I sit down last night and upload all of my October pix from my camera onto my home computer. Amidst all the Halloween and camping photos, there sits the EVP video. I slow it down, add some noise reduction and give it a good, hard listen as is my usual procedure.  Phrase by phrase I work my way through it, deleting the ones that are too hard to hear or understand. When I hit the word clairvoyant I’m intrigued. Remember that a clairvoyant is someone who can see into the future.  Is it calling me a clairvoyant? Impossible. If I could predict the future, believe me, I’d know it.  I can only guess that it’s calling itself clairvoyant and think little of it.  I move along.  When I get to the last word, Brooklyn, I nearly fall off my chair. Holy cow.

Was this clairvoyant spirit a month ago telling me that I’d soon be exploring the possibility of doing my show in Brooklyn?  If I’d listened to it a month ago would I have even put it together in this same way?  I’m not sure. I keep listening to that last word again and again trying to hear it … with the heart. See what you think, and stay tuned…

[photo via wikipedia]