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The Gospel of Direct Experience

The Gospel of Direct Experience

De: Jeff Mansfield & Michael Ellick
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In a world of failing traditions and crumbling institutions, the Gospel of Direct Experience is the living Spirit of Truth revealed through our senses, our intuitions, our dreams, and our visions. Where orthodoxy meets heresy, religion meets the paranormal, and the physical meets the psychic… the Spirit calls us to transcend our inherited dogmas and second-hand stories, waking up to the power, the meaning, and the mystery that are alive and vibrant within us and beyond us. Join hosts Jeff Mansfield and Michael Ellick for a conversation transcending the boundaries of the conventional world.2024 Espiritualidad
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  • Living Into the Dark: Matt Cardin on Creativity, Horror, and the Daemonic

    Living Into the Dark: Matt Cardin on Creativity, Horror, and the Daemonic
    Feb 5 2026
    In this episode of The Gospel of Direct Experience, we're joined by Matt Cardin, acclaimed writer of cosmic horror and author of the new book Writing at the Wellspring: Tapping the Source of Your Inner Genius. What unfolds isn't just a discussion of creativity; it's also an initiation into darkness—darkness as terror and generative source and spiritual/cultural necessity. Matt reframes the "demon muse" or "genius" not as a benevolent guide from beyond but as an abducting, inner organizing force that destabilizes our egoic certainty and is the true wellspring of art, vocation, and transformation. Our conversation ranges from the chapel perilous and cosmic horror, to non-dual philosophy and role-playing games to Frankenstein and the collapse of modern culture. Get ready to descend into the living dark—not to transcend it, but to be transformed by it. Visit Matt's excellent Substack newsletter The Living Dark. Episode Highlights [00:00:51] Intro to Matt Cardin Matt Cardin is an author known for delving into the realms of horror and the metaphysical. His widely acclaimed books, including To Rouse Leviathan and What the Daemon Said, explore the convergence of horror, religion, and creativity. [00:03:29] Horror as Spiritual Initiation Matt reflects on discovering Lovecraft, Ligotti, and the weird fiction tradition, describing the uncanny experience of encountering work that feels less like influence than recognition. [00:15:33] Lovecraft as Spirit Guide Matt describes discovering H.P. Lovecraft not simply as a writer, but as a formative guide into cosmic horror and spiritual disorientation. [00:25:07] Satanic Panic Matt recalls two episodes from childhood that alerted him that his interest in darkness and creativity would not be readily accepted in his cradle religious tradition. [00:30:46] The Living Dark & the Allotted Function We unpack the idea of living into the dark as both a creative and existential condition—life lived without a map or final certainty. From there we discuss discovering one's allotted function—Is it cosmic slavery or existential freedom? [00:42:44] The Demon Muse Matt explores the demon or daemon/daimon muse as a way of naming the unconscious, involuntary source of creativity that moves through us rather than obeying us. We discuss personifying this force—not as superstition, but as a practical way of collaborating with the deep patterns that shape us as individuals and creative beings. [00:50:55] Frankenstein & Collapse Matt reframes Frankenstein as a parable of the daemonic unconscious gone unacknowledged, returning as both personal and cultural catastrophe. Then we turn toward possibility: a new monastic path for those who want to live meaningfully at "the end of the world." What seeds should we plant for the other side of apocalypse? [01:51:23] Becoming the Living Book Jeff reflects on Matt's story "Notes of a Mad Copyist," where a new inner revelation is experienced as a horror. What if collapse isn't the end but a transformation where the false things fall away? Continue the Conversation What did you think about this conversation? Tell us at gospelofdirectexperience@gmail.com or reach out at: https://www.gospelofdirectexperience.com/#contact.
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    1 h y 7 m
  • A Portal to the Great Mother: Clark Strand & Perdita Finn on the Rosary

    A Portal to the Great Mother: Clark Strand & Perdita Finn on the Rosary
    Jan 21 2026
    What if the rosary is not a relic of patriarchal religion, but an ancient spiritual technology—older than Christianity itself—designed to open a living relationship with the Sacred Mother? In this episode we're joined by Clark Strand and Perdita Finn, founders of The Way of the Rose and co-authors of the book by the same name, for a deeply embodied conversation about the rosary as a portal: tactile, erotic, ecological, and alive. Drawing on paleolithic bead traditions, Marian devotion, mystery cults, Buddhism, and direct visionary experience, Clark and Perdita reframe the rosary as a practice rooted not in any particular dogma, but in the body—touch, rhythm, breath, grief, birth, death, and rebirth. We explore the rosary's hidden history, its connection to the Great Mother across cultures, and its power to open liminal spaces where the living and the dead, the personal and the cosmic, meet. The conversation then moves through themes of devotion without orthodoxy, apocalypse without judgment, reincarnation, climate grief, and the Sacred Feminine as a force that shows up—not as metaphor, but as a very real spiritual presence. By the end, we've gone from womb to tomb and back again. Episode Highlights [00:01:26] Introducing Clark, Perdita, and The Way of the Rose Perdida Finn and Clark Strand are the founders of the Way of the Rose Fellowship and the co-authors of the book of the same name. Their work not only shares some of their own profound experiences of the Sacred Mother, it reframes where the rosary came from, what it really is, and where it might be taking us. [00:02:46] The Land We Are Called To An organic, story-rich opening unfolds around sacred land, old-growth forests, ancestral memory, and the way places call us into transformation. The Sacred Mother as land and body. [00:9:30] The Body Knows the Prayer Perdita and Clark introduce the rosary not as doctrine, but as an embodied practice rooted in touch, rhythm, and nervous-system memory. Drawing on ancient bead traditions and the physiology of consolation, they reframe the rosary as a tactile return to the Mother—older than Christianity itself. [00:18:03] Ancient Origins of the Rosary The conversation traces the rosary back through Paleolithic goddess figurines, Mediterranean mystery cults, and pre-literate devotional practices. Clark and Perdita reveal how Marian devotion absorbed and preserved far older traditions of the Great Mother, birth, death, and rebirth—often in tension with official church theology. [00:26:11] Opening the Portal Great discussion here about the rosary being a portal and a summoning practice. Clark and Perdita explore how repetitive prayer, gesture, and intention open liminal space—connecting practitioners with the living, the dead, and the Sacred Feminine across cultures (an invitation to people of any and all or no religious or spiritual background to join in the prayer). [00:43:41] When She Shows Up (and Speaks) Clark and Perdita share their own direct encounters with the Sacred Mother, including visionary experiences and received messages that shaped their work and writing. This section makes clear that the rosary is not symbolic—it is relational, communicative, and alive. [00:51:19] A Different Kind of Apocalypse We close by reimagining apocalypse through the rosary's mysteries—not as punishment or final judgment, but as cyclical renewal, divine union, and rebirth. Continue the Conversation What did you think about this conversation? Tell us at gospelofdirectexperience@gmail.com or reach out at: https://www.gospelofdirectexperience.com/#contact.
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    1 h y 4 m
  • The Age of Disclosure: UFOs, Psyops, & Ontological Shock

    The Age of Disclosure: UFOs, Psyops, & Ontological Shock
    Dec 17 2025

    We finally discuss the new documentary The Age of Disclosure and what it suggests about UFOs, government secrecy, and the possibility of non-human intelligence.

    Already convinced of the reality of UFOs, your hosts explore the deeper challenges of disclosure itself: psychological operations, selective truth-telling, and the difficulty of knowing what to trust when intelligence agencies are shaping the narrative. We discuss why so many credible insiders are speaking publicly now—and their suggestion that there's more—much more—they can't say.

    Drawing on UFO research, the work of Jacques Vallée, and the history of religious and paranormal encounter, we imagine the UFO phenomenon within a broader landscape of "high strangeness" that resists simple explanation and unsettles our assumptions about reality.

    Our conversation meanders (as it so often does) toward ontological shock—the disorientation that arises when our frameworks for understanding the world begin to break down—and the question of whether humanity is truly prepared for what disclosure may reveal to us about reality and our place within it.

    The Age of Disclosure Trailer

    Watch the Age of Disclosure on Prime Video

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    What did you think about this conversation? Tell us at gospelofdirectexperience@gmail.com or reach out at: https://www.gospelofdirectexperience.com/#contact.
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    1 h y 7 m
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