many routes leading back to the past. These include memory,
historical narrative, relics or artifacts, and material remains
of past cultures. Another approach, mostly neglected and/or
relegated as impossible (by many) is the investigation of
hauntings, specifically those investigations that are
performance-based. mentioned above, are synthesized in a
performance-based symmetrical investigation which leads from the
present back to a presence through reflective resonance of an
individual (or collective) past. The awareness of a past is
founded on memory. Yet, our inventory of stored memories is
continually in a state of flux: we add, delete, and change.
These memories are characterized by two things: We retain these
set of memories in the present; yet they concern the past; These
memories may or may not be consciously remembered. are
symmetrically-related. An example of this would be the habitual
activities that we perform “routinely” on a daily basis (riding
a bicycle or driving a car, walking, eating). The us