In the year 2000 I wrote a paper to accompany an Ortho-Biionomy® Phase Five class. I used this  Kenneth Rexroth poem, "Growing," as an epigraph. It has been several years since I looked at that paper, and had largely forgotten the poem. I was spooked when I just reread it, given my current fascination with hauntology and its particular relevance to what we call Phase Five.

Growing

Who are you? Who am I? Haunted

By the dead, by the dead and the past and the

Falling inertia of unreal, dead

Men and things. Haunted by the threat

Of the impersonal, that which

Never will admit the person,

The closed world of things. Who are

You? Coming up out of the

Mineral earth, one pale leaf

Unlike any other unfolding,

And then another, strange, new,

Utterly different, nothing

I ever expected, growing

Up out of my warm heart's blood.

All new, all strange, all different.

Your own leaf pattern, your own

Flower and fruit, but fed from

One root, the root of our fused flesh.

I and thou, from the one to

The dual, from the dual

To the other, the wonderful,

Unending, unfathomable

Process of becoming each

Our selves for each other.

Kenneth Rexroth

Hauntology(Ontology)

as it relates to orthobionomy and Ortho-Bionom^®

Some possible titles:

The Haunted Body

The Body in its Subjunctive Mood-Phase

The Spectrality of the Body Schema

The As-If Body

Being There by Being Not There

Ontology has to do with the nature of being, "thereness."Hauntology is kooks at how things are there by not being there; the power of absence. describes that 'space' seeming to be but not actually being, the world of the as-if. Considered as a transition zone. 

Hauntology folds in the apophatic. Merriam-Webster defines as "involving the practice of describing something by stating which characteristics it does not have". More broadly in my thinking, the presence of absence. The interplay if presence and absence is a prominent feature of orthobionomy.

Much of the writing on Hauntology centers on questions of time. Haunted by unattained futures (ghosts of past futures), pasts that invade the present (PTSD is thus a haunting). Can I bill myself as an exorcist from my decades of work toward the release of people in thrall to past trauma?

I move and act upon the world by first inhabiting it with my own ghost. Myself with no substance, the "body with no organs."

This is a placeholder for me. I want to come back to this but other things intrude.

Two types of imaginagination: Practical and Transcendant. Think of the Body Schema as the body's ability to imagine itself and mavement is guided by that imaginative ability. 

"Ciny Time Zone"

This and "The Space Between the Notes are the last of the Reflexes to show up. He had a compulsion to have things in groups of seven. This is a ghost of Pythagorean mysticism and late antiquity thinkers, and maybe his Mennonite upbringing with its Seven Sacraments.

Reading his description, this Ciny thing is just something that shows up, not a technique as such. He did not say This situation calls for the CTZ and then intentionally power it up. I suppose there is value to be had in saying, Wow, a CTZ just happened! Value in recognizing the Visitation, seeing it perhaps as a sign.