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Embrace the Unknown: On Trusting Your Daemon
Enacting your creative destiny by writing at the edge of the unseen
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Matt Cardin
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The Imaginal Doorway: When Creativity Meets the Shadow Realm
On writing, ego dissolution, and the lurking presence beyond form
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Matt Cardin
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Reclaim Your Reading: On Curating a Personal Digital Digest
A simple strategy for focused reading in a scattered world
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Matt Cardin
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A Winter's Benediction: 'Joy to the World' on Piano
My performance of an inspired New Age piano arrangement
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Matt Cardin
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December 2024

November 2024

The Writer's Paradox: Personal Is Universal
When you write from your own deepest truth, you speak most deeply to others. Chapter 6 of 'Writing at the Wellspring.'
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Matt Cardin
2
Weird Fiction and the Secret Landscape of the Soul
Waking up at the uncanny convergence of surface narrative and understory
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Matt Cardin
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To Thine Own Muse Be True
On channeling your inner genius
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Matt Cardin
The Deeper Magic of Reality
On emergent phenomena, scientific reductionism, and the living mystery of everything
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Matt Cardin
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A Dialogue on Divining Your Daemon
Creativity as inner collaboration
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Matt Cardin
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