Ritual Space and the Crooked Path Beyond: Volume 3 by Peter Hamilton-Giles

In this volume we endeavour to explore the relationship we have between a ritual space and our imagination. The premise upon which this book is built proposes a ritual space is demarcated through imagination, as it is this which leads to eventual spirit encounters. There are some interesting observations to therefore make when demarcating a ritual space. To encapsulate imagination, we must rely on the assumption that previously we have experienced other ritual spaces to which our imagination has then rendered itself accountable. Moreover, the ritual space when demarcated by imagination infuses the setting of the encounter with feasible diversions causing our consciousness to then embellish what are unwarranted deviations in form.

What follows on from this is that a ritual space is understood as a byproduct of our imagination, and that our ability to apprehend this unfettered version viscerally climaxes from having had previous encounters with Otherness. Our assembling of a ritual space therefore emulates this alterity via our dreams and imagination. Working together they deepen our sense of disconnection from the physical domain by offering a conduit for reflection and poetry about the ritual space domain.