The Teeming Brain has published a lot of content since its inception in 2006. Here’s a guide to some of the most popular and significant items.
ALL-TIME MOST READ POSTS AND PAGES
- Shadow Visitors: Sleep Paralysis and Discarnate “Dark Ones” (by Matt Cardin)
- How to Read Lovecraft: A Practical Beginner’s Guide (by Matt Cardin)
- Interview with Thomas Ligotti: It’s All a Matter of Personal Pathology
- Real Succubus Tales: Sleep Paralysis and the Genesis of Erotic Horror (by Ryan Hurd)
- Subversive Superhero: The American Dream of Captain America (by Stuart Young)
- The Teeming Brain Podcast #1 (and only): Cosmic Horror vs. Sacred Terror
- Legacy’s End: The Rise and Fall of the UCLA Parapsychology Lab (by Dr. Barry E. Taff)
- It’s Official: The Human Race Is Earth’s Disease (by Matt Cardin)
- The Tragic Tale of the Rocket Maker (by Matt Cardin)
- H. P. Lovecraft, DMT, and the Mysteries of the Pineal Gland (by Matt Cardin)
- Initiation by Nightmare: Cosmic Horror and Chapel Perilous (by Matt Cardin)
INTERVIEWS
- Interview with Quentin S. Crisp: I Have a Buddhist Voice in My Head
- Interview with James Fadiman: The Daemon and the Doors of Perception
- Interview with Stephen Jones: Horror, Pure and Simple
- Interview with Gary Lachman: Occult Politics, Nihilism, and the Responsibility of the Imagination
- Interview with John Langan: That Occulted Part of Ourselves
- Interview with Thomas Ligotti: Born to Fear
- Interview with Thomas Ligotti: It’s All a Matter of Personal Pathology
- Interview with Nick Mamatas: Let the Id Do the Writing
- Interview with J. F. Martel: Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
- Interview with Kim Paffenroth: Horror, Dread, and Transcendent Yearning
- Interview with Mark Samuels: A Sense of Charnel Glamour
- Interview with Don Webb: Art, Mystery, and Magic
- Interview with T. M. Wright: An Unleashed Imagination
KEY ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
By Matt Cardin
- This I Believe: An Uber-Agnostic on Religion, Psychology, Consciousness, the Paranormal, and the Meaning of Life
- To Cleanse the Doors of Conception: Scientific Psychic Dreams, Scientific Monsters, and the Transcendent Realities
- Liminality, Synchronicity, and the Walls of Everyday Reality
- The Myth of an Ending: Apocalypse as a Spiritual Path
- Age of Philosophical Vertigo
- On Living Well in Ray Bradbury’s Dystopia: Notes Toward a Monastic Response
- Possession, Exorcism, and the Daimon
- Horror Literature through History: Full Introduction and Table of Contents
- My Introduction to Jon Padgett’s The Secret of Ventriloquism
- Dehumanized in a Dark Age
- To Reject Philosophy Is to Embrace the Matrix
- The Bias of Scientific Materialism and the Reality of Paranormal Experience
- Meditation, the Daimon Muse, and the I Ching
- Supernatural Horror, Spiritual Awakening, and the Daemonic Divine
- You Are a Paranormal Phenomenon
- Horror, the Muse, and Inspired Madmen: My Full Introduction to Joe Pulver’s Portraits of Ruin
By Jason V Brock
- Weird Fiction: The Passing of the Generational Torch
- Last of the Titans: A Note on the Passing of Ray Harryhausen (and Forrest Ackerman and Ray Bradbury)
By Richard Gavin
- Womb of the Black Goddess: Horror as Dark Transcendence
- In Praise of Horror That Horrifies
- To Suffer This World or Illuminate Another? On the Meanings and Uses of Horror
By T. E. Grau
- If Science Kills God, What Fate the Devil?
- Shame for Fame: The New Path to Stardom in the Age of the Status Cult
- Doom from above: When the End Arrives, Will Anybody See It Coming?
By Ryan Hurd
- Nightmares: Dark Crossroads of Creativity and Vulnerability
- Horror for the Holidays: Santa, Krampus, and the Dark Divine
By Dominik Irtenkauf
By David Metcalfe
- Awakening the Esoteric Spirit: Mapping the Occult City
- The Plot Running Like a Silver Cord: Channeling and Mediumship on the Margins of Literature
- Skeptics, Believers, and the Purposes of Parapsychology: Thoughts on Two Experiments in Unseen Realities
- Remote Viewing, Reality, and the Human Condition: Reflections on a Weekend with Russell Targ
- Haunted by Our Amnesia: The Forgotten Mainstream Impact of the Occult/Esoteric “Fringe”
- “Till immersed in that mighty ocean”: Perils of Awakening in a Universe of Hungry Ghosts
- His Strange Confession: Self-help, natural philosophy, and what Napoleon Hill learned from the devil
By Stuart Young