The Mycelium Forum #3 – ”Chapel Perilous” – With Matt Cardin & Marko Hautala
””I swayed between fear, defiance, and disgust. I was completely at the mercy of my passions. I could not—and would not—hear the depths. But on the seventh night, the spirit of the depths spoke to me: ’Look into your depths, pray to your depths, awaken the dead!’”
— Carl Jung, The Red Book”
Welcome to the third installment of The Mycelium Forum, a series devoted to open-ended conversations with occultists, authors, and artists.
In this episode, I am joined by two returning guests: from Finland, Marko Hautala, whose novels blend psychological horror with liminal and esoteric dimensions; and from Arkansas, Matt Cardin, an author and scholar whose fiction and essays probe the intersections of cosmic horror, philosophy, and religion.
Together, we venture into the dark terrain where creativity converges with psychological transformation. This is the dreaded Chapel Perilous, a liminal state in which consensus reality unravels and unsettling daemonic insights emerge…