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		<title>&#8216;This myth is realized today in us&#8217;: On the deep meaning of Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of my readers know that I grew up in a strongly evangelical Protestant tradition and went on to make the study of world religions, spiritualities, and philosophies a major part of my life. This informs all of my horror fiction (and in fact forms a great deal of its explicit substance), as well as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theteemingbrain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=263902&amp;post=3452&amp;subd=theteemingbrain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Published: Ebook edition of &#8216;Divinations of the Deep&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the past couple of years, I&#8217;ve been receiving requests for an ebook edition of Divinations of the Deep with increasing frequency, and today I&#8217;m pleased to announce that the wait is over. Divinations, the ebook, is now available in both Kindle and ePub formats (the latter for Nook, Kobo, and other ereaders). You can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theteemingbrain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=263902&amp;post=3426&amp;subd=theteemingbrain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aliens and ontology: Are abductions &#8220;not real&#8221; if they&#8217;re &#8220;just dreams&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note the predictable materialist-reductionist assumption that characterizes a newly reported round of research into the alien abduction phenomenon. Because people could be trained to see/experience aliens and abductions while such phenomena were clearly not physically happening, Michael Raduga of Los Angeles&#8217; Out-of-Body Experience Research Center deemed the phenomena themselves to be, therefore, illusory products of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theteemingbrain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=263902&amp;post=3407&amp;subd=theteemingbrain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Vampire Is Always within Us&#8221;: My SF Signal interview with Ian Holt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My interview with Dracula-and-vampire expert Ian Holt is now available at SF Signal: &#8220;The Vampire Is Always within Us: A Conversation with Ian Holt.&#8221; Ian is the man who co-wrote Dracula: The-Undead with Dacre Stoker, Bram Stoker&#8217;s great-grandnephew. As you probably already know, the book is the official, Stoker-family-sanctioned sequel to Bram&#8217;s classic novel. Ian&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theteemingbrain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=263902&amp;post=3394&amp;subd=theteemingbrain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Bad Titles for Horror Movies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago &#8212; okay, almost three &#8212; I posted a list of truly awful titles for horror movies that had occurred to me during my off hours. In honor of the current Halloween season, I thought I&#8217;d exhume and &#8212; what&#8217;s more &#8212; expand the list. You can never have too many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theteemingbrain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=263902&amp;post=3370&amp;subd=theteemingbrain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Technology, ecology, and the real sin of Dr. Frankenstein</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first read Lewis Thomas&#8217;s wonderful Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler&#8217;s Ninth Sympthony as an undergraduate communication major (philosophy minor) at the University of Missouri. In more than one of the essays contained therein, Thomas expresses the belief that many or most of humanity&#8217;s basic problems, including environmental and ecological ones, can only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theteemingbrain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=263902&amp;post=3358&amp;subd=theteemingbrain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Accepting the Monster into Your Heart&#8221;: Horror as a spiritual path</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I was telling some of my college students about a shift in mass entertainment culture. A few years ago, I told them, I began to feel as if &#8220;my time,&#8221; and also that of my generation &#8212; namely, Generation X &#8212; had finally arrived. Somewhere around the turn of millennium, the appearance of things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theteemingbrain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=263902&amp;post=3347&amp;subd=theteemingbrain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Penn State announces new sleep paralysis study</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my Darkness Radio interview last week, I mentioned the culture-wide surge of awareness and interest in sleep paralysis that has occurred during the past few decades, and especially in the past four and five years. From being an experience and phenomenon that was essentially forgotten, or rather suppressed from memory, in Western culture at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theteemingbrain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=263902&amp;post=3339&amp;subd=theteemingbrain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Occupy movement as global insurrection and revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leave it to Daniel Pinchbeck to provide a predictably excellent statement of what the consciousness movement could or should be doing relative to the worldwide Occupy phenomenon. I heard a few days ago that he was scheduled to address the assembled protesters in New York City. This new and short piece at Reality Sandwich is, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theteemingbrain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=263902&amp;post=3333&amp;subd=theteemingbrain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shadow people, sleep paralysis, and discarnate dark entities: My guest spot on Darkness Radio</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four days ago, on October 11, I was the featured guest on Darkness Radio, the popular paranormal radio show originating out of Minneapolis on KTLK and hosted by David Schrader (of the Travel Channel&#8217;s Paranormal Challenge and Ghost Adventures). The topic was sleep paralysis, shadow people, and discarnate dark entities &#8212; all things I&#8217;ve talked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theteemingbrain.wordpress.com&amp;blog=263902&amp;post=3303&amp;subd=theteemingbrain&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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