Musing upon the cross-cultural invitation of ‘would you like to come over for some tea?’, we have expanded on the Taiwanese term “cha shi”, which loosely translates to “tea setting”. It expresses a place where we can sit down together, in a casual and intimate environment; a form of coming together that balances the spiritual and physical need for closeness through the shared moment of tea time. Modern society is plagued by an overwhelming sense of disconnect and alienation. If we were re-enchanted by the world, perhaps we could find true meaning in ourselves and each other. We can enrich our feeling of connection through the notion of ‘tea together’, away from the rigid formalities of bourgeois tea culture. Tea ceremonies often conform to a strict set of rules, but this creates distance between people and inhibits the conviviality of tea. The vessels themselves contain an imminent sociability that extends outward, mediating the relations between people and orientating their bodies. Sacred communication through these vessels takes place during the (liquid) flow of tea, which is internalised like medicine when swallowed.  The mixing, making, and firing of these earthy vessels is the first stage of this alchemical process. The resulting objects serve as the receptacles of tea, transmuting human relationships through its liquid materiality (the second stage), fabricating them outside of the established social order of Individuality. The notion of ‘tea together’ fashions a mundane part of culture into a tool for building relations. Its pervasiveness is characteristic of its social function. ‘Tea together’ encourages people to imagine new ways of forging connections through the act of communal drinking. By taking it in, one is charged by its bodily communion. The performative aspect of tea preparation for another reifies the intimate moment between host and guest, which is intensified through the drinking of the tea. One assimilates with the corporeal manifestation of shared connection. ‘Cha shi’ generates an altered space-time for the host and guest that mutually relies on both subjects, and does not necessarily organise them into a power dynamic. The serving of tea moderates the duration of hosting others in an enclosed, intimate space-time. ‘Tea together’ becomes a medium of ‘being present’ in a society organised by fast-paced, productive time. ‘Television Alchemy’ hijacks TV’s potency as an instrument of capitalism, converting it into a ‘probehead’ which aims to unsettle the dominant regime with its liquid materiality: divine, feminine, disruptive. Unveiling esoteric realities and alternate modes of being and relating. Emerging from the capitalist mode of production and being forged out of the same ‘material’, the television as an instrument of chaos magick taps into this dynamic source.  This work draws influence from 80s Soviet TV mystic Allan Chumak, whose viewers at home would place glasses of water in front of their TV sets whilst he performed reiki hand gestures. The water would be ‘charged’ by Chumak so that the viewer could cure themselves of a particular ailment introduced during the episode. Before you is a type of brew called ‘witcha’ — a  portmanteau of ‘witch’ and ‘cha’ (a common word for tea in East Asia). It is ‘cha shi’, a tea communion charged by the oozing transmissions of ‘Television Alchemy’ to become a healing brew that heightens the feeling of connection and presence between people that capitalism has alienated us from.