Weirding the Circuit

On the Accumulative Perturbation of Reality-Disruptions

I. The Occult Organization of Objects in Spatial Fields

In the second season of Twin Peaks, the villainous Ben Horne undergoes a transformative psychic collapse following a convergent series of business losses and personal disruptions. The first sign of his journey into the underworld occurs when he interrupts one of his dark scheming sessions to wonder aloud whether or not there might be a “perfect arrangement of all the objects in a given space.” When we see him next, he has stacked all the furniture from his room atop his desk and is pondering the subtle psychological effects of this shift.

This article will present a strange possibility relative to the occult modification of objects in spaces.

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II. “Manson”

Tom O’Neil’s book CHAOS is a fascinating exploration of the many different layers and ambiguous influences that bear upon (and interfere with) that whole 1960s situation known as the Manson Family murders.

It was not only a horrific act of evil murder and brutality that was connected vaguely to a psychedelic sex cult of hippie vagabonds — whatever went on there has an ontologically flooded status that breaches conventional meaning-making. Too many different contexts converge into a central zone of mystery in which every usefully simplified explanation runs afoul of some other bizarre facet of the entanglement. If participants in Xagick are interested in studying the para-logic of reality disruptions, this is very fertile territory.

While the majority of people are either repulsed or allured by the lurid tragedy of this affair, student-creators of the new occult discourse should be attentive not to the grotesquerie but rather to the way that any thread of explanation must remain tightly confined or else it will stray into a peculiar vortex that hovers liminally between the different reality tunnels that converge on this “event.”

Errol Morris’ 2025 Netflix documentary CHAOS, for example, neglects many of the findings recorded in the book, which in turn allows Morris to maintain his tone of steady narrative authority. To explore further, as with UAPs and other sorts of anomalous reality breaches, would risk entering the quicksand. Tom O’Neil slowly entered that quicksand over decades of skeptical and painstaking journalistic research and eventually arrived at a profound unknowingness. No single explanation is adequate and the overlapping collection of explanations does not (as it might with the blind men and their elephant) create a more cohesive and comprehensive story.

Rather, they collectively highlight an opaque zone of interperspectival confusion.

I am going to tell a short and completely unjustified story about this event. The point is to make more explicit one particular set of occult dynamics that may operate in trans-ontological space and offer the Xagical researcher some points of entry into further exploration if so desired.

The tale begins with the idea of the “creepy crawlies.” This is a good place to begin since it may operate, with what I have called teratogenic mystique, as a monstrous guardian of the threshold.