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Confessions of an Idea Addict

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Monsters, Magic, Doomscrolling, and Unthinkable Peace

Invite the Lightning

Beyond the Veil

The Hidden River of Your Writing

Notes & Gleanings: Dark Delights, Literary Horrors, and Halloween Surprises

Casting Words in the Void

You Are an Axis of Creation

Notes & Gleanings: The Tao of Jesus, Ray Bradbury's Career Advice, and the Wisdom of Meaninglessness

Words Always Fail: On Writing, Language, and Reality

New ebook: "Transmitting Vision: Essays on the Writer's Path"

One Year of The Living Dark

One Way to Resurrect Your Writer's Daemon

Authentic Action and the Creative Source (Cosmic Creativity 3)

Beyond Belief: Reality Is Not a Worldview

Cosmic Horror, Personal Reality, and Divine Enlightenment

Writers: Learn Your Craft

The Writer's Paradox: Personal Is Universal

For Writers: A Crash Course on Divining Your Daemon

You Are an Instrument of Something Higher: A Conversation with Jerry Martin (Podcast Transcript)

Unraveling the Illusion of Resistance and Tapping the Flow of Creation (Cosmic Creativity 2)

The Job of Cultural Preservation and Transmission in the Present Time

Ray Bradbury's Advice to Aspiring Writers

Notes & Gleanings: The AI Matrix, the Pathos of Rod Serling, and Life's Ultimate Question

Resistance Is the Enemy Within (Cosmic Creativity 1)

The Inner Call to Absolute Inertia

Notes & Gleanings: Nick Cave's Christianity, Evil as Transmissible Disease, and the Fallacy of Meditating for Improvement

Creativity and Spirituality: It's Complicated

A New Name for This Newsletter: Welcome to The Living Dark

Episode 1: The Remarkable Story of God's Autobiographer, Jerry L. Martin

The Wisdom of Silence in the Age of Online Writing

That Gift: A Poem

Late Night Thoughts on Longing and Dread

On Thomas Ligotti and the Hypnotic Power of Authors Who Share Their Deepest Selves

Blood for Dracula (or Andy Warhol's Dracula): My Personal Piano Arrangement

Bradbury's Book People and Eisenhower's Military-Industrial Complex: Dystopia Now

Notes to No One (Part 3): The Haunting Presence of an Infinite Self

The Endgame of Creative Pursuits: Reaching the Flashpoint of Stillness

The Self as Infinite Reservoir, Archetypal Abyss, and Eternally Self-Undermining Text

Podcast interview with me: 'Writing into the Dark'

Gleanings: The Glory of Maximalist Prose, the Shadow of Creative Calling, and Ray Bradbury on the Mystery of Space Travel

Start From Paradise

Your Daemon Is Your Dharma

In the Age of AI, Is Unemployment a Disease or the Cure?

Awakening From the Nightmare (Part 2): Organic Horror, Cinematic Reflexivity, and the Unclaimed Psyche

Awakening From the Nightmare (Part 1): Religion, Horror Movies, and Self-Awareness

Notes to No One (Part 2): Your Life Is a Labyrinth You Build as You Go

Gleanings: Buddhist Wisdom, Christian Enlightenment, American Pseudo-Reality, and the Zen of John Carpenter

Notes to No One (Part 1): The World Is a Fiction and So Are You

Piano Improvisation: Monday Mist (The Holidays Are Over)

Ligotti, Pessimism, Religion, and Horror