Some Garden of Ash [FORTHCOMING]

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Some Garden of Ash: Through Nine Gates of Undoing

by Evan Davies

Preface by Clint Marsh
Afterword, Illustrations, & Cut-Up Montage by Brian Cotnoir
Typesetting & Presentation by G. McCaughry

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A restless, scattered search.
A mirror reflection of the modern western condition,
at once curious and critical, seething and wanting.

Some Garden of Ash is the debut from Evan Davies, long-time editor of Anathema Publishing.

Consisting of two distinct pieces – an introductory discourse exploring our relationship between spiritual identity, the attention economy, and capitalism’s all-pervasive influence; and its interdependent opposite, a body of ritual prose conceptualized through nine ‘gates’ of undoing – Some Garden of Ash is an esoteric meditation on the search for transcendence.

In an age of conspicuous consumption and media oversaturation, it is an abstract exchange of fear, desire, and meaning between the page and the reader: together, let us seek the infinite, and nothing at all.

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Some Garden of Ash: Through Nine Gates of Undoing

by Evan Davies

Preface by Clint Marsh
Afterword, Illustrations, & Cut-Up Montage by Brian Cotnoir
Typesetting & Presentation by G. McCaughry

PRE-ORDERS: [TBD]

PRE-ORDERS for the Artisanal Edition: [TBD]

A restless, scattered search.
A mirror reflection of the modern western condition,
at once curious and critical, seething and wanting.

Some Garden of Ash is the debut from Evan Davies, long-time editor of Anathema Publishing.

Consisting of two distinct pieces – an introductory discourse exploring our relationship between spiritual identity, the attention economy, and capitalism’s all-pervasive influence; and its interdependent opposite, a body of ritual prose conceptualized through nine ‘gates’ of undoing – Some Garden of Ash is an esoteric meditation on the search for transcendence.

In an age of conspicuous consumption and media oversaturation, it is an abstract exchange of fear, desire, and meaning between the page and the reader: together, let us seek the infinite, and nothing at all.

[read more below…]

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Contents 

An Introduction, by Evan Davies
Preface, “Hermit Dreams,” by Clint Marsh

The Unending Chorus
A Turning Away
Further Into the Desert
A Cognitive Abyss
Conjuring Desire
Just One (More) Fix
Commercializing Our Fleeting Hours
#Witchcraft #Occult #WitchyVibes
A Fire Burns
Lastly, a Parting Key

I. Gate of Dawn: A Season of Impossible Things
II. Gate of Sorrow: A Shedding of Skin
III. Gate of Longing: What the Trees Said
IV. Gate of Forgetfulness: A Transfiguration
V. Gate of Returning: What Hunger Scratches in the Lonely Hours?
VI. Gate of the Longest Shadows: Evensong   
VII. Gate of Whispers: Cloisters 
VIII. Gate of Slumber: A Parable of Seasons
IX. Gate of Returning: Furnace of Winter
NULL. Gate of Dissolve: The Hungry Night Devours What It Wants

Afterword, by Brian Cotnoir

Description

The introduction, “A Discourse Meandering,” is a conversational, even irreverent journey from the ancient world of the desert mothers and fathers to the modern digital #hexing of a US president; through the history of the ‘attention economy’ and the cognitive abyss brought on by today’s algorithm-driven, dopamine-soaked online experience; through the invention and manipulation of mass-produced desire, be it modern cigarette manufacturing or the commodification of modern-day witchcraft.

Meant to embody the spiritual and cognitive dissonance of our modern age, it attempts to connect the many disparate dots between past and present, between material desire and spiritual growth. 

Conversely, the collective “Nine Gates of Undoing” stands as a cerebral counterpoint – a ritual presented in free-flowing prose channeled from the Great Arc and its golden voice. 

Populated with abstraction and symbolism, it is a frenetic and feral exploration of magick, of old ways, of new ways, of the voices of the dead and the living, of our relationship to nature and to ourselves, of consumerism and the heavy yoke of modern life. The work is intended to invite both interpretation and reflection. 

It is a garden verdant and withered, asking only what you may be willing to answer of our insignificance and place within the infinite.

Featuring a foreword by Clint Marsh, founder of Fiddler’s Green Peculiar Parish Magazine, and design and afterword by acclaimed zine artist and alchemical author Brian Cotnoir (Khepri Press).

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