Episode 126: The Daemon Speaks, with Matt Cardin

Returning guest Matt Cardin is a writer of fiction and nonfiction whose focus on numinous horror places him in the literary lineage as Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood. His new book, What the Daemon Said, collects two decades' worth of meditations on literature, cinema, mysticism, philosophy, and the weird. He joins Phil and JF to talk about a range of topics including dark enlightenment, the idea that fear and trembling are the only sensible reactions to direct exposure to cosmic truth.

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REFERENCES

Matt Cardin's website

Matt Cardin, What the Daemon Said: Essays on Horror, Fiction, Film and Philosophy

Matt Cardin, Dark Awakenings

Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way Morning Pages Journal

Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones

The Gospel of Thomas

Matt Cardin, Dark Awakenings

Robert Frost, “The Figure a Poem Makes”

John Horgen, Rational Mysticism

Weird Studies, Episode 41 with Matt Cardin

Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for his Highest

Weird Studies ep. 124: Dark Night Radio of the Soul, with Duncan Barford

Theodore Roszak, American scholar

M. C. Richards, Centering

Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

Huston Smith, American religious scholar

Martin Buber, I and Thou

John Lee Hancock (dir.), The Rookie (2002)

Eckart Tolle, German spiritual teacher

Richard Wagner, Parsifal

Peter Berger, The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion

Alan Watts, English writer and teacher

Richard Rose, After the Absolute: The Inner Teachings of Richard Rose Special Guest: Matt Cardin.