Healing Time

V. Healing Time by Amy Ireland 29/99

Temporal Secessionism V. Healing Time Rhythm is the expression of intensities in space-time. Everything that exists, exists on a continuum of material explication. From minerals to minds, all individuated things have rhythm. Fields of speeds and slownesses. Bundles of trapped intensities. In transcendental philosophy, rhythm is created by a schematism. For Immanuel Kant, schematisation was responsible for the correspondence between conceptual and spatiotemporal determinations. Because schematisation required concepts, and was an operation of the faculty of imagination, it was an exclusively human activity. Post-Kantian transcendental philosophy protested that if a human mind exists, it must itself be the result of schematisation. This would mean that concepts are continuous with, but secondary to, matter. The mind that thinks them is a material rhythm. The objects they denote are rhythms too. Being is a cosmic factory floor where reality isn’t just thought, but forged. Its products are the rhythmic oscillations of schematisation as it composes the world. Consciousness, infrastructure, peoples, economics, geologies, states, and systems. Proponents of crystal healing understand the cosmos as a vast rhythmic continuum. Inorganic matter occupies one end of the spectrum, oscilla30/99

Temporal Secessionism V. Healing Time ting stably at low frequencies. Mental energy occupies the other, oscillating erratically at higher ones. The solemn pulse of an ancient mineral temporality. And the complex cadence of a hybrid modern time. Because they are faster and more chaotic, high spectrum frequencies tend to drift out of sync quickly. Their complexity makes them susceptible to environmental feedback. Mental, emotional and material problems are understood as the superficial symptoms of lost or inauspicious resonances. But this vibratory energy can be tuned and re-synchronised using the stable frequency of a crystal as a regulator. Thus the process of crystallisation is a synecdoche for the process of crystal healing. It charts a path from chaos to perfection. But is synchronisation oppressive or emancipatory? Is the resonance sought in healing time a refuge or a prison? Perhaps crystals are to the vibratory milieu what a calendar is to the social one. Vibratory imperialism. Not only can they be employed to realign a dissident rhythm, they can also be programmed with an intention. A pattern that the programmer wishes to install in reality. When a crystal is programmed, two schematisms interface. The schematism of the programmer and the schematism of the crystal. Stable oscillation is understood to be 31/99

Temporal Secessionism V. Healing Time more powerful, so the inorganic schematism of the crystal will always colonise the hybrid schematism of the programmer. In order to be successful, a programmer must choose a type of crystal that resonates with the frequency of their intention. Quartz crystals are favoured because of their special versatility. Uniquely tuneable to multiple frequencies, quartz is known to healers as the ‘master crystal’. These primordial resonators are also 32/99

Temporal Secessionism V. Healing Time used to keep the time in contemporary digital clocks. They are at once the most ancient and the most modern of temporal technologies. Through their usage, the far ends of time are synchronised. And controlled. Etymologically, the word ‘calendar’ encodes a ‘call’ or a ‘summons’. Exemplifying the political pedigree of temporal regulation, the word dates back to the ‘calends’ of Imperial Rome. In programming a crystal with an intention the user ‘calls’ or ‘summons’ a rhythm and sends it out to re-schematise reality. Ask yourself: Am I being re-schematised? Crystal healers will tell you rose quartz helps you fall in love. This is a trap. Falling in love is a catastrophe that corresponds to the effacement of all prior schematisation. The best way to evade capture by the vibratory empire is simply to fall in love. 33/99