Returning guest Matt Cardin is a writer of fiction and nonfiction whose focus on numinous horror place 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...
Returning guest Matt Cardin is a writer of fiction and nonfiction whose focus on numinous horror place 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.
Header image: detail of cover design for What the Daemon Said, by Dan Sauer Design.
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REREFENCES
Matt Cardin's website (https://mattcardin.com)
Matt Cardin, What the Daemon Said: Essays on Horror, Fiction, Film and Philosophy (https://www.hippocampuspress.com/other-authors/nonfiction/what-the-daemon-said-by-matt-cardin?zenid=eb4sec67t2m8frhke9kamt2qd6)
Matt Cardin, Dark Awakenings (https://mattcardin.com/fiction/dark-awakenings/)
Weird Studies ep. 124 (https://www.weirdstudies.com/124): Dark Night Radio of the Soul, with Duncan Barford
Theodore Roszak (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roszak_(scholar)), American scholar
M. C. Richards, Centering (https://www.amazon.com/Centering-M-C-Richards/dp/B000M18R20)
Frierich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52263/52263-h/52263-h.htm)
Huston Smith (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huston_Smithhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huston_Smith), American religious scholar
Martin Buber, [I and Thou](https://archive.org/stream/IAndThou572/BuberMartin-i-and-thoudjvu.txt)
John Lee Hancock (dir.), The Rookie (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265662/) (2002)
Eckart Tolle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle), German spiritual teacher
Richard Wagner, Parsifal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsifal)
Peter Berger, The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion (https://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Canopy-Elements-Sociological-Religion-ebook/dp/B004X3789G)
Alan Watts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Watts), English writer and teacher
Richard Rose, After the Absolute: The Inner Teachings of Richard Rose (https://www.amazon.com/After-Absolute-Inner-Teachings-Richard-ebook/dp/B07PMN1GFRhttps://www.amazon.com/After-Absolute-Inner-Teachings-Richard-ebook/dp/B07PMN1GFR)
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