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Mythic Mind

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Pursuing wisdom through primary and secondary worlds. Mythic Mind is a conversation about stories, thought, and the inner life. We read literature and philosophy, talk through film and games when they help, and ask what these works reveal about the soul, the good life, and the Christian imagination. Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings, C.S. Lewis and Narnia, Kierkegaard, Beowulf, myth and fairy stories, Tolstoy, and the great books all take their turn at the table. Hosted by Andrew Snyder, Ph.D., the show gathers fellow readers and thinkers around a common table. Some episodes are lessons. Most are recorded discussions. All of them aim at seeing more clearly, not merely consuming more content. New seasons take up a shared theme across the Fellowship. Listen on your own, then join the wider conversation in the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

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198 - You Have Forgotten Who You Are: Boethius' Consolation, Book I

20 min

Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/you-have-forgotten-who-you-are-mythic-mind-ep-198/ Boethius has lost his place in the world, and Lady Philosophy tells him that he has forgotten who he is. Fortune had given him so much that he began to expect permanence from things that could never promise it. Now those things are gone, and the muses helping him turn his misery into poetry are making his despair worse. In this lesson on Book I of The Consolation of Philosophy, I follow Lady Philosophy's first efforts to restore his sight. Her treatment begins with recovering what it means to be human: a rational creature receptive to divine reason, with a place in an ordered cosmos. The inward light she calls him to remember has its source in God. Trying to manufacture meaning out of ourselves leaves us isolated from the reality in which we could find our bearings. Through the medieval picture of the heavens and Socrates' faithfulness even unto death, we consider what remains ours when fortune turns. We ought to receive the good things of this life with gratitude and hold them in an open hand. Our freedom depends on how we relate to the eternal good, and Lady Philosophy's diagnosis leads us toward Kierkegaard's account of despair in The Sickness unto Death. This episode shares a lesson from Life, Death, and Meaning with Beowulf and Boethius. The full course is coming to the Mythic Mind Fellowship, including eight videos that have not otherwise been released. Related videos: Who Failed Anakin Skywalker? (Mythic Mind, ep. 197): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKs8fvJ24Z4 Oblivion's Sheogorath and Kierkegaard's Sickness unto Death (Mythic Mind Games, ep. 34): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZUgEUzaBXU 📚 Books discussed The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius (Victor Watts translation): https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780140447804 The Sickness unto Death by Søren Kierkegaard: https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780691020280 Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://...

197 - Who Failed Anakin Skywalker?

30 min

Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/who-failed-anakin-skywalker-mythic-mind-ep-197/ Right-wing X has been full of pro-Anakin posts, including one Elon Musk shared of an AI image of Emperor Anakin with Padme and their children in Imperial uniforms, captioned "This is what they took from us." Some of that is just meme energy. Underneath it sits a real claim: that the Jedi, read as a bloated liberal order, failed a gifted young man, and that Palpatine at least affirmed his passions and offered a path of belonging. On Mythic Mind Exploring the Psyche, Dr. Andrew Snyder asks who actually failed Anakin Skywalker. Was it the Jedi who raised him, the chancellor who empowered him, or Anakin himself? He grants plenty of the grievance. Qui-Gon dies early. Obi-Wan clearly loves Anakin, yet treats as a brother the young man who needed a father. The Order treats love as a liability to manage more than as a fire to order toward the good, and the council wants Anakin's power while withholding the rank of master. Palpatine, though, loves him the way the witch loved Hansel. The candy is real sugar, and the house is still a trap. Anakin's fall rides disordered desires that each begin in something genuine: a love of Padme that becomes the glory of being her savior, a hunger for justice that becomes impatient revolutionary will, a longing for paternal affirmation that accepts a false name from a devourer, and underneath them an attempt to make fortune's wheel stand still under his hand. Drawing on Kierkegaard's call to be "in the truth," Boethius on the wheel of fortune, C. S. Lewis's men without chests, and Edmund Burke on inheritance across the living, the dead, and the yet unborn, Andrew argues that soft licentiousness and hard empire are two faces of the same refusal of ordered love. Luke does not save his father by matching power with power. He lays down the saber. The harder freedom is responsibility under what is true, good, and beautiful. The Abolition of Man, P...

196 - Kierkegaard's Concept of Anxiety: Anxiety Is Not an Ailment to Be Removed

34 min

Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/kierkegaards-concept-of-anxiety-anxiety-is-not-an-ailment-to-be-removed-mythic-mind-ep-196/ Today I'm giving you a free look into my Mythic Mind Fellowship course, The Psychology of Søren Kierkegaard: Life in Anxiety & Despair, as we begin with the preface and introduction to The Concept of Anxiety. Before the argument proper, Kierkegaard's pseudonym Vigilius Haufniensis, the Watchman of Copenhagen, tells us what kind of book this is and what kind of book it is not: not a clinical study, not a self-help manual, and not a theology textbook borrowing a psychological title. He is a psychologist with theology in view, writing a monograph rather than a system. The course is underway now and is included with Fellow and Companion memberships, so joining the Fellowship gets you the rest of it. We look at what happens when sin is handled in the wrong field (aesthetics, metaphysics, or psychology on its own), why earnestness is the proper mood for this book, and how Haufniensis maps four neighboring disciplines: first ethics, dogmatics, psychology, and second ethics. Psychology can trace the real possibility of sin, but it cannot cross the qualitative leap. That is why its proper object is anxiety, which is not an ailment to be removed but the threshold where we face either despair or faith. Chapters: 0:00 A free look at the Kierkegaard course 0:30 The texts for this study 5:53 The preface and introduction 6:52 Vigilius Haufniensis and Kierkegaard's pseudonyms 8:28 A psychologist with theology in view 10:40 The Watchman of Copenhagen: a monograph, not a system 16:49 Sin out of place: the false moods 19:39 Earnestness, the proper mood 22:35 Four disciplines: first ethics, dogmatics, psychology, second ethics 27:44 Psychology's limit and the qualitative leap 29:43 Takeaways and what comes next The Psychology of Søren Kierkegaard: Life in Anxiety and Despair (course introduction): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ6KDO2mNPY A...

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198 - You Have Forgotten Who You Are: Boethius' Consolation, Book I

20 min

Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/you-have-forgotten-who-you-are-mythic-mind-ep-198/ Boethius has lost his place in the world, and Lady Philosophy tells him that he has forgotten who he is. Fortune had given him so much that he began to expect permanence from things that could never promise it. Now those things are gone, and the muses helping him turn his misery into poetry are making his despair worse. In this lesson on Book I of The Consolation of Philosophy, I follow Lady Philosophy's first efforts to restore his sight. Her treatment begins with recovering what it means to be human: a rational creature receptive to divine reason, with a place in an ordered cosmos. The inward light she calls him to remember has its source in God. Trying to manufacture meaning out of ourselves leaves us isolated from the reality in which we could find our bearings. Through the medieval picture of the heavens and Socrates' faithfulness even unto death, we consider what remains ours when fortune turns. We ought to receive the good things of this life with gratitude and hold them in an open hand. Our freedom depends on how we relate to the eternal good, and Lady Philosophy's diagnosis leads us toward Kierkegaard's account of despair in The Sickness unto Death. This episode shares a lesson from Life, Death, and Meaning with Beowulf and Boethius. The full course is coming to the Mythic Mind Fellowship, including eight videos that have not otherwise been released. Related videos: Who Failed Anakin Skywalker? (Mythic Mind, ep. 197): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKs8fvJ24Z4 Oblivion's Sheogorath and Kierkegaard's Sickness unto Death (Mythic Mind Games, ep. 34): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZUgEUzaBXU 📚 Books discussed The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius (Victor Watts translation): https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780140447804 The Sickness unto Death by Søren Kierkegaard: https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780691020280 Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://...

197 - Who Failed Anakin Skywalker?

30 min

Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/who-failed-anakin-skywalker-mythic-mind-ep-197/ Right-wing X has been full of pro-Anakin posts, including one Elon Musk shared of an AI image of Emperor Anakin with Padme and their children in Imperial uniforms, captioned "This is what they took from us." Some of that is just meme energy. Underneath it sits a real claim: that the Jedi, read as a bloated liberal order, failed a gifted young man, and that Palpatine at least affirmed his passions and offered a path of belonging. On Mythic Mind Exploring the Psyche, Dr. Andrew Snyder asks who actually failed Anakin Skywalker. Was it the Jedi who raised him, the chancellor who empowered him, or Anakin himself? He grants plenty of the grievance. Qui-Gon dies early. Obi-Wan clearly loves Anakin, yet treats as a brother the young man who needed a father. The Order treats love as a liability to manage more than as a fire to order toward the good, and the council wants Anakin's power while withholding the rank of master. Palpatine, though, loves him the way the witch loved Hansel. The candy is real sugar, and the house is still a trap. Anakin's fall rides disordered desires that each begin in something genuine: a love of Padme that becomes the glory of being her savior, a hunger for justice that becomes impatient revolutionary will, a longing for paternal affirmation that accepts a false name from a devourer, and underneath them an attempt to make fortune's wheel stand still under his hand. Drawing on Kierkegaard's call to be "in the truth," Boethius on the wheel of fortune, C. S. Lewis's men without chests, and Edmund Burke on inheritance across the living, the dead, and the yet unborn, Andrew argues that soft licentiousness and hard empire are two faces of the same refusal of ordered love. Luke does not save his father by matching power with power. He lays down the saber. The harder freedom is responsibility under what is true, good, and beautiful. The Abolition of Man, P...

196 - Kierkegaard's Concept of Anxiety: Anxiety Is Not an Ailment to Be Removed

34 min

Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/kierkegaards-concept-of-anxiety-anxiety-is-not-an-ailment-to-be-removed-mythic-mind-ep-196/ Today I'm giving you a free look into my Mythic Mind Fellowship course, The Psychology of Søren Kierkegaard: Life in Anxiety & Despair, as we begin with the preface and introduction to The Concept of Anxiety. Before the argument proper, Kierkegaard's pseudonym Vigilius Haufniensis, the Watchman of Copenhagen, tells us what kind of book this is and what kind of book it is not: not a clinical study, not a self-help manual, and not a theology textbook borrowing a psychological title. He is a psychologist with theology in view, writing a monograph rather than a system. The course is underway now and is included with Fellow and Companion memberships, so joining the Fellowship gets you the rest of it. We look at what happens when sin is handled in the wrong field (aesthetics, metaphysics, or psychology on its own), why earnestness is the proper mood for this book, and how Haufniensis maps four neighboring disciplines: first ethics, dogmatics, psychology, and second ethics. Psychology can trace the real possibility of sin, but it cannot cross the qualitative leap. That is why its proper object is anxiety, which is not an ailment to be removed but the threshold where we face either despair or faith. Chapters: 0:00 A free look at the Kierkegaard course 0:30 The texts for this study 5:53 The preface and introduction 6:52 Vigilius Haufniensis and Kierkegaard's pseudonyms 8:28 A psychologist with theology in view 10:40 The Watchman of Copenhagen: a monograph, not a system 16:49 Sin out of place: the false moods 19:39 Earnestness, the proper mood 22:35 Four disciplines: first ethics, dogmatics, psychology, second ethics 27:44 Psychology's limit and the qualitative leap 29:43 Takeaways and what comes next The Psychology of Søren Kierkegaard: Life in Anxiety and Despair (course introduction): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ6KDO2mNPY A...

195 - Eschatology in Arda: Did Middle-earth Know Its Ending?

44 min

Did the people of Middle-earth know how their story ends? Rev. Jeffrey Wade joins Andrew Snyder and Josh to discuss his master's thesis on eschatology in Arda. His question is not only what Tolkien believed, but whether the inhabitants of Arda themselves know their telos: the promise of resurrection, reunion, and the setting right of all things. Letting the text stand on its own rather than reading it through a scholar's agenda, he argues that this hope is woven into the story from the Ainulindalë onward. One striking thread is water. The music of Ilúvatar lingers in the waters of Arda, and Rev. Wade traces moments of grace and eucatastrophe that happen near water, from Bilbo's riddle game and Lake-town to the Ford of Bruinen, Nimrodel, and Mirrormere. He also shows how hope is handed down through song and story among Men, hobbits, Dwarves, and Ents, and points to the Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth in Morgoth's Ring as one of its clearest statements. The conversation then asks how much of this hope survives in Peter Jackson's films and why Hollywood struggles with virtuous characters. It closes with Rev. Wade's story of how the films led him to the books, and why he calls The Lord of the Rings a love letter to creation. Rev. Jeffrey Wade is a Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod pastor in Iowa, with an MDiv from Concordia Seminary (2014) and an MA in Language and Literature from Signum University (2025). Chapters 00:00 Introducing Rev. Jeffrey Wade 01:12 The thesis: do the inhabitants of Arda know their eschatology? 03:21 Reading theologically and letting the text stand 05:24 Water and the music of Ilúvatar 07:28 What is Arda? 11:12 What makes this approach unique in Tolkien scholarship 15:50 Best sources: the Ainulindalë and the Athrabeth 19:57 The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings: hope at the water's edge 23:33 Why water? Baptismal echoes 24:22 How the hope is handed down: lore, song, and catechesis 27:51 Bombadil vs. the Barrow-wight: hope vs. despair 29:20 Eschatology...

194 - The Death of Ivan Ilyich: Am I Guilty?

38 min

Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/the-death-of-ivan-ilyich-am-i-guilty-mythic-mind-ep-194/ We all know we will die one day. It is another thing to consider that it is I who am going to die. In this Mythic Mind conversation, Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) is joined by David and Jack to read Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich. We trace a man who did everything "properly," climbed the ladder, decorated the right house, and still ended up utterly alone, until suffering forces him to ask the one question he has always avoided: am I guilty? Topics include how ordinary people keep death at arm's length, why suffering can become a grace, and what it means to finally take responsibility for the life you've lived. Along the way we find Tolstoy reaching some of the same places as Lewis and Kierkegaard by a very different road. Related: • Kierkegaard on Man's Highest Perfection (Mythic Mind, ep. 193): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJXOC2PfR3M • Till We Have Faces, Part One: Orual Behind the Veil (Mythic Mind, ep. 114): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KhXO9V0PRw Get the book: The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780140449617 Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Listen to/watch the Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies #MythicMind #Tolstoy #DeathOfIvanIlyich #BookClub #Philosophy #Theology #CSLewis Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

193 - Kierkegaard on Man's Highest Perfection

54 min

Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/kierkegaard-on-mans-highest-perfection-mythic-mind-ep-193/ We are pressed to dissolve into the mass, to wear a demographic as a self, or to win identity from whatever community we most esteem. Kierkegaard’s answer cuts the other way: the glory of the human being is to recognize utter dependency on God. In Mythic Mind episode 193, Dr. Andrew Snyder is joined by Zach and David for an Exploring the Psyche conversation on Kierkegaard’s discourse “To Need God Is a Human Being’s Highest Perfection.” They push past the easy proverb that a person needs only a little, through Job and vanity that can even dress itself as renunciation, to the Christian claim that greatness is not pagan self-sufficiency but knowing how much we need God. Along the way: first self and deeper self, the moving wheel of fortune versus the eternal, inwardness against self-enclosure, Christendom versus contemporaneity with Christ, and why casting Kierkegaard as a secular existentialist misses the Christian (even Boethian) grain of the text. Topics include needing little versus needing God, praying for the powerful because they need God most, grace and being capable of nothing, the hard wine before the good wine, and how anchoring in God frees the temporal self for real community rather than atomism. Get the book: Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses by Søren Kierkegaard https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780691020877 Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com Fellows and Companions can join The Psychology of Søren Kierkegaard: Life in Anxiety and Despair, beginning the week of October 4, plus Academy courses, Inkwell essays, and the fuller life of the community. Listen to and watch Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows #MythicMind #ExploringThePsyche #Kierkegaard #ToNeedGod #Philosophy #Theology #Psyche #ChristianExistentialism Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker....

192 - Exploring the Psyche: Why Socialism Is Poison to the Soul

43 min

Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/exploring-the-psyche-why-socialism-is-poison-to-the-soul-mythic-mind-ep-192/ Socialism is often sold as justice, necessity, or the only way to win. This Exploring the Psyche episode asks a harder question: what does that bargain do to the soul? In Mythic Mind episode 192, Dr. Andrew Snyder takes up a live Right-wing temptation around redistribution, democratic appetite politics, and seizing power "for our side." He grants the real injustice (vote-buying, short-sighted majorities, a disenfranchised base), steelmans the classical and Lewisian fears about democracy's degeneration and spiritual leveling, then refuses the conclusion that remakes persons into instruments. The court can sentence Socrates. Only Socrates can harm Socrates. Drawing on Plato and Aristotle, C. S. Lewis, Kierkegaard (and Gregory Beabout), Dostoevsky's Crystal Palace, and Tolkien on the Machine and coerced wills, the talk argues that envy baptized as entitlement, managed security without risk, and power that treats neighbors as tools all shrink the self before God. Freedom requires gratitude, courage, and faithful action. A managed win for any base is still a loss for the person. Topics include democracy and demagoguery, envy and false entitlement, facticity and possibility, despair and the spiritless crowd, welfare soft slavery, Tolkien's Machine versus sub-creation, and why refusing the smaller victory is the psyche's first win. Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com Fellows receive Academy courses (including The Psychology of Søren Kierkegaard: Life in Anxiety and Despair, beginning the week of October 4), Inkwell essays, and the fuller life of the community. Since the fall season began, podcast downloads have nearly doubled. Membership is the deeper layer of the work you hear here. Listen to and watch Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows #MythicMind #ExploringTh...

191 - Exploring the Psyche: Identity and Becoming a Self

1 hr 15 min

Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/exploring-the-psyche-identity-and-becoming-a-self-mythic-mind-ep-191/ When Boethius lost everything, Lady Philosophy told him the wound beneath the wound: you have forgotten who you are. That diagnosis still lands. Who are you when the roles, tests, and labels fall away? In this Mythic Mind Exploring the Psyche conversation, Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) talks with licensed therapists Jeremy Key and Tyler Finders about identity: Myers-Briggs and Enneagram snapshots, the trap of "I am my diagnosis," agency that will not go away, and Kierkegaard's claim that the self is a relation in motion rather than a fixed type. Topics include authenticity versus persona, how suffering clarifies what is real, and why identity often arrives when you stop hunting for it and start seeking what is good. Related: • Exploring the Psyche: The Importance of Home (Mythic Mind, ep. 190): https://youtu.be/9__99dsKwiU • Anxiety Means You Can Choose (Mythic Mind, ep. 189): https://youtu.be/DwKDIRfQGQY • A Life Well Lived (Mythic Mind, ep. 188): https://youtu.be/2Dgj68PWXdQ • Fall Season: Exploring the Psyche (Mythic Mind, ep. 187): https://youtu.be/_Lbvd79c0d8 Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com Listen to/watch the Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows #MythicMind #ExploringThePsyche #Identity #Kierkegaard #Boethius #Psychology #Philosophy #Theology Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

190 - Exploring the Psyche: The Importance of Home

1 hr 16 min

In this Mythic Mind Exploring the Psyche conversation, Dr. Andrew Snyder talks with licensed therapists Jeremy Kee and Tyler Finders about the value of home: roots and responsibility, the fear of committing to the wrong thing, hobbits who leave the Shire in order to save it, and C.S. Lewis’s reminder that pleasant inns are not the final destination. Topics include belonging in a shifting world, establishing versus finding home, and why home still matters psychologically and spiritually. Join us for our season of "Exploring the Psyche" at https://mythicmindfellowship.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

189 - Anxiety Means You Can Choose

1 hr 17 min

Anxiety is usually treated as a disease to be eliminated. Medication and psychotherapy have their place, but what if, in our pursuit of so-called mental health, we are lobotomizing something essential to being human? In this Exploring the Psyche conversation, Andrew is joined again by licensed therapists Tyler Finders and Jeremy Key to ask what anxiety actually is. We argue that anxiety is not an impediment to agency, but a call of the human spirit to take responsibility for our choices in the moment where what has been meets what might still be. We talk about surface-level anxiety versus deeper existential anxiety, courage as every virtue at its testing point, spheres of control versus spheres of concern, and why anxiety cannot (and need not) be “cured.” It can only be answered: by reclaiming agency instead of surrendering it. If anxiety is how freedom feels, the question is not how to make it disappear, but how to let it educate us into responsibility. Join us for our season of "Exploring the Psyche" at https://mythicmindfellowship.com/ Get the book: The Sickness Unto Death by Søren Kierkegaard https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780691020280 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

188 - A Life Well Lived

1 hr 25 min

In this inaugural episode of our fall "Exploring the Psyche" season, I discuss "living well" with Tyler Finders and Jeremy Key, both of whom are clinical psychotherapists and Christian thinkers. Keep up with all things Exploring the Psyche at mythicmindfellowship.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

187 - Fall Season: Exploring the Psyche

6 min

Between podcasts with professionals in the field, discussions of philosophy, film, and video games, Inkwell articles, a course on Kierkegaard, and more, Mythic Mind will be "Exploring the Psyche" this fall! Join the Fellowship or otherwise keep up with us at mythicmindfellowship.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

186 - A Review of the BBC's That Hideous Strength (Readings from the Inkwell)

13 min

C.S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength is a profound, still very underread story that provides penetrating insights into the growing forces of dehumanization that drive much of our culture. In 2025, the B.B.C produced an audio drama adaptation. Here is my review. To get access to all Inkwell readings, become a member as a Fellow or Companion at https://mythicmindfellowship.com/ Get the book: That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780743234924 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

185 - The Mythic Mind Fellowship is Moving!

20 min

[This episode is best as video. Watch at https://youtu.be/tFrz6G_Avg4 Starting at the beginning of August, we will begin transitioning to our new home at http://www.mythicmindfellowship.com! This is an exciting new chapter that will facilitate deeper fellowship, more opportunities, and a better experience across the board. In this episode, I provide a tour through the new website. Right now, we are in a soft launch period, but the full site will be available on August 1st. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

184 - English Romanticism w/ Josh Traylor

16 min

In this lecture from his "English Poems and Poets" course, classical teacher Josh Traylor provides a broad overview of literary Romanticism 19th century England. Enroll in Josh's course with a Mythic Mind Fellowship membership: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/JN81DlZZjq8 Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

183 - What is Romanticism? w/ Josh Traylor

34 min

In this lecture from his "English Poems and Poets" course, classical teacher Josh Traylor explains what Romanticism is, what it is not, why it is ambiguous, and how we should understand it as a European cultural movement in the late 1700s and in the 1800s. Enroll in Josh's course with a Mythic Mind Fellowship membership: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/kF4KsqKe7dM Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

182 - The Two Towers, Part 2: Helm's Deep and the Palantir

34 min

Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/the-two-towers-part-2-helms-deep-and-the-palantir-mythic-mind-ep-182/ Tolkien once wondered whether a film could cut Helm's Deep. In the book it still teaches how hope arrives at dawn, and how a seeing-stone can undo the unwary. In this Mythic Mind Lord of the Rings study, Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) walks Book III, chapters 7–11: the Hornburg and the men of Rohan, Gandalf's dawn, and the Palantir's dangerous gift of sight after Orthanc. Topics include battle as more than spectacle, hope against despair, and why true seeing is moral before it is magical. Related: • The Two Towers, Part 1 (Mythic Mind, ep. 178): https://youtu.be/ueNTOpwZInI • The Two Towers as Film and Adaptation (Mythic Mind Movies, ep. 26): https://youtu.be/cQQy1BkKGt0 • The Fellowship of the Ring as Film and Adaptation (Mythic Mind Movies, ep. 25): https://youtu.be/ZpZY3u_eyuw • J.R.R. Tolkien and the Long Defeat (Mythic Mind, ep. 181): https://youtu.be/R-1Yp1Z8dv4 Get the book: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780547928203 Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com Listen to/watch the Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows #MythicMind #Tolkien #TwoTowers #HelmsDeep #Palantir #LOTR #Theology #Philosophy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

181 - J.R.R. Tolkien and the Long Defeat

10 min

What does the future hold? What has been let go by the past? How should we view the moving horizon? In this episode, I draw from Tolkien's letters, The Lord of the Rings, and his essays, "The Monsters and the Critics" and "On Fairy-Stories," to discuss his concept of The Long Defeat. Take the entire course, including our recorded live meetings, with a Mythic Mind Fellowship membership: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here:https://youtu.be/R-1Yp1Z8dv4 Get the book: The Road to Middle-earth by Tom Shippey https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780618257607 Get the book: J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780618257591 Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

180 - AI Storytelling: What Remains Properly Human

1 hr 38 min

Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/ai-storytelling-what-remains-properly-human-mythic-mind-ep-180/ We live amid tribal AI arguments: every machine-made frame is "slop," or every model is just a new paintbrush. This Mythic Mind conversation slows down between those poles with a technologist and a novelist. Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) is joined by Josh Daws (former Disney software engineer; VP of Technology at The Blaze) and novelist Michael Kane (After Moses) to ask what AI-generated media can and cannot bear as storytelling, and what remains properly human when prediction scales into myth-shaped output. Topics include creativity and collaboration with tools, the temptation of knee-jerk culture-war takes, and how authors and audiences might keep soul in an age of autocomplete. Related: • Video Games and the Psyche (Mythic Mind Games, ep. 52): https://youtu.be/-BS688rdNW8 • Anxiety Means You Can Choose (Mythic Mind, ep. 189): https://youtu.be/DwKDIRfQGQY • A Life Well Lived (Mythic Mind, ep. 188): https://youtu.be/2Dgj68PWXdQ • English Romanticism w/ Josh Traylor (Mythic Mind, ep. 184): https://youtu.be/JN81DlZZjq8 Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.c... Listen to/watch the Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows #MythicMind #AI #Storytelling #JoshDaws #MichaelKane #Philosophy #Creativity #Theology Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

179 - The American Heritage: 250 Years of Liberty

34 min

What is the American heritage? To whom does it belong? For this special episode of Mythic Mind, we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and reflect on some of the things that make the United States of America exceptional on the stage of history. Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/N4PJmHL9WXw Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

178 - The Two Towers, Part 1: The Departure of Boromir to The King of the Golden Hall

34 min

We are continuing our Lord of the Rings study with the Book III, Chapters 1-6. Take the entire course, including our recorded live meetings, with a Mythic Mind Fellowship membership: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here:https://youtu.be/ueNTOpwZInI Get the book: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780547928203 Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Music: Lament for Boromir by Clamavi De Profundis Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

177 - Earendil the Mariner

4 min

From Norse legend to Christian Anglo-Saxon poetry to the skies of Middle-earth, we are taking a look at Earendil the Mariner, the first enduring character of Tolkien's legendarium. Take the entire course, including our recorded live meetings, with a Mythic Mind Fellowship membership: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here:https://youtu.be/zGYyXLP34W0 Get the book: The Road to Middle-earth by Tom Shippey https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780618257607 Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

176 - The Fellowship of the Ring, Part 4: Lothlórien to The Breaking of the Fellowship

45 min

We are continuing our Lord of the Rings study with the Book II, Chapters 6-10. Take the entire course, including our recorded live meetings, with a Mythic Mind Fellowship membership: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/A4dkvX-pedc Get the book: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780547928210 Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

175 - Sauron and the Passing Shadow

10 min

We continue through our 2025 course on The Lord of the Rings with a focused presentation on the character of Sauron. Take the entire course, including our recorded live meetings, with a Mythic Mind Fellowship membership: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/uR4F9zEivII Get the book: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780547928210 Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

174 - The Fellowship of the Ring, Part 4: Many Meetings to The Bridge of Khazad-dûm

1 hr 4 min

We are continuing our Lord of the Rings study with the Book II, Chapters 1-5. Take the entire course, including our recorded live meetings, with a Mythic Mind Fellowship membership: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/jBQ4_uDevx8 Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

173 - Tolkien, Plato and the Ring of Gyges

8 min

We continue our Lord of the Rings study with a detour to Plato and a different ring of power. Take the entire course, including our recorded live meetings, with a Mythic Mind Fellowship membership: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/Z_OfCpjFgTk Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

172 - The Fellowship of the Ring, Part 2: Bombadil & Ringwraiths

1 hr 25 min

We are continuing our Lord of the Rings study with the Book I, Chapters 6-12 (The Old Forest to Flight to the Ford). Take the entire course, including our recorded live meetings, with a Mythic Mind Fellowship membership: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/WKnc1gWlbuU Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

171 - Tolkien on Allegory and Application

33 min

Tolkien is known to despise allegory, but he is also clear that fiction, including his own, has a relationship with the primary world that can be used as a conduit for truth. In this lesson from the 2025 Lord of the Rings study, I discuss Tolkien's approach to allegory and application. Take the entire course, including our recorded live meetings, with a Mythic Mind Fellowship membership: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here:https://youtu.be/c9-2YjcmxnM Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

170 - The Fellowship of the Ring, Part 1

1 hr 21 min

We are continuing our Lord of the Rings study with the Prologue to Book I, Chapter 5 (A Conspiracy Unmasked). Take the entire course, including our recorded live meetings, with a Mythic Mind Fellowship membership: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/14C-xNNvFDM Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

169 - The Ainulindalë and the Theology of Tolkien's Legendarium

19 min

We begin our Lord of the Rings study with the beginning of Tolkien's world: the Ainulindalë, which tells of the making of Arda and the primordial fall of the devilish Melkor. After a presentation of the story, I briefly discuss the theology of Tolkien's world and its relationship with Tolkien's own Christianity. Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/IEIDwrI0kso Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

168 - The Lord of the Rings (Introduction)

15 min

In this new series of Mythic Mind, I will be providing my lessons from the exclusive Lord of the Rings study that we did in early 2025. This is a short introduction to that study. Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/kAvqcTcYbcE Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

167 - Has Science Answered the Religious Question?

34 min

Neil deGrasse Tyson told Piers Morgan that we do not need to appeal to God to answer cosmological questions because the empirical sciences have demonstrated sufficient explanatory power. In the final episode of this C.S. Lewis and the News series, I use this exchange as an occasion to discuss Lewis's thoughts on the supposed challenges that modern science levies against theological explanations of causation. Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/NQ2MHTUFNbc Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Once we hit 100 paid members, C.S. Lewis and the News will become a regular show! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

166 - C.S. Lewis, Conspiracies, and the Power of Friendship

48 min

While it is certain that any number of things may be "really going on," it is not difficult to make the case that the modern internet-saturated culture is plagued by unhealthy conspiratorial thinking. What drives these tendencies? How can C.S. Lewis help us to stay grounded in reality and responsibility? In this episode, I seek answers to these questions with the help of Stephen Kent, who is a political TV commentator and columnist, author of How the Force can Fix the World, and host of https://www.youtube.com/@GeekyStoics Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/ACUz4222oEA Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Once we hit 100 paid members, C.S. Lewis and the News will become a regular show! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

165 - C.S. Lewis on Aliens, A.I., and Personhood

49 min

We were recently promised UFO/UAE files that would fundamentally disrupt biblical Christianity. In a shocking turn, these promises were not delivered, but this was a good occasion to discuss what C.S. Lewis had to say about the potential theological ramifications of discovering extraterrestrial life. This series is a new venture that may one day become a regular show. Once we reach 100 paid members, I will give it a green light! Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/RlIy5rzY-QY Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

164 - ICE Becomes NICE and King Charles Comes to America

56 min

In this episode of C.S. Lewis and the News, I discuss the ominous renaming of ICE to the N.I.C.E. and what our reception of King Charles reveals about our democratic ideals. This series is a new venture that may one day become a regular show. Once we reach 100 paid members, I will give it a green light! Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/225ii4L6KBo Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

163 - C.S. Lewis and the News

15 min

In this episode, I introduce C.S. Lewis and the News, a new series (and hopefully one day new show) that examines the moving pieces of our world through the timeless writing of C.S. Lewis. I discuss what the show is, what it is not, and I clarify what I mean when I refer to Lewis as a conservative. Particularly as this is a new idea, I would love to hear your thoughts! Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/3s7_eNfdQL8 Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

162 - The Consolation of Philosophy, Book V

42 min

If God has perfect knowledge of all time, do we actually have choices to make? To what extent can our wills possibly be free? In this final episode of Life, Death, and Meaning with Beowulf and Boethius, I discuss Book V of The Consolation of Philosophy and I tease where we are going next! Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/P-9w3DcvgvA Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

161 - How to Study Literature (w/ Classical Teacher Josh Traylor)

56 min

In this bonus episode from Josh Traylor's Paradise Lost course, Josh shares some wisdom on studying literature. Whether you are interested in studying literature professionally or simply out of an interest in the power of the written word, this presentation will help you get started in an intentional way. Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/F3i5ZYKdzOE Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship to support Josh and take his course: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

160 - Augustine on Time, Eternity, and Freedom

31 min

What is time? What is its relationship with eternity? Does God's perfect knowledge of negate our apparent free will? As we continue through the Boethius section of "Life, Death, and Meaning with Beowulf and Boethius," we take a look at Augustine's understanding of time, eternity, and freedom. Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/DG9mgjcebVI Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

159 - Paradise Lost, Books XI & XII

56 min

As we continue through Joshua Traylor's Paradise Lost course, Josh discusses Books XI and XII. Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/JlNyhYJSWZE Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship to support Josh and take his course: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

158 - Fate & Providence (The Consolation of Philosophy, Book IV)

42 min

What is the relationship between Fate and Providence? As we continue through "Life, Death, and Meaning with Beowulf and Boethius," I discuss Book IV Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy. Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/2wx4BojKTA8 Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

157 - Paradise Lost, Book X

38 min

As we continue through Joshua Traylor's Paradise Lost course, Josh discusses Book X. Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/EDTBKyg_6O8 Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship to support Josh and take his course: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

156 - Tolkien & Athanasius: Arda Healed, not Arda Unmarred

18 min

Fellowship member and Mythic Mind contributor Jack Keoseyan recently wrote an article for our Substack titled, "Arda Healed, not Arda Unmarred," in which he discusses Tolkien's Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth with reference to Athanasius, the great Church Father and defender of orthodox Trinitarianism in the fourth century A.D. In this article, Jack discusses the nature and destiny of humanity in Tolkien's legendarium and what that reveals about Tolkien's theology.In this episode, Jack reads his article for us. Read the article and subscribe to the Mythic mind Substack here: https://mythicmind.substack.com/p/arda-healed-not-arda-unmarred Watch the video of this episode here: https://youtu.be/WpT22QUsDwY Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

155 - Paradise Lost, Book IX

41 min

As we continue through Joshua Traylor's Paradise Lost course, Josh discusses Books IX. Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/F3ipY9ErOhQ Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship to support Josh and take his course: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

154 - Epicureanism & Stoicism

40 min

As we continue through the Boethius section of "Life, Death, and Meaning with Beowulf and Boethius," we take a look at Epicureanism and Stoicism, two major schools of classical thought that play a significant role in Boethius's own thought. Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/CYm9Cr6xbpM Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

153 - Paradise Lost, Books VII & VIII

51 min

As we continue through Joshua Traylor's Paradise Lost course, Josh discusses Books VII & VIII of Paradise Lost. Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/KGqks4okhdw Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship to support Josh and take his course: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

152 - The Consolation of Philosophy, Books II & III

33 min

Can Fortune be trusted? What is true happiness? What are its illusions? As we continue through "Life, Death, and Meaning with Beowulf and Boethius," I discuss Book II & III of Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy. Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/zhE9guwyUJ8 Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

151 - Paradise Lost, Book VI

46 min

As we continue through Joshua Traylor's Paradise Lost course, Josh discusses Book VI of Paradise Lost. Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/-xdcF4m7Z_w Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship to support Josh and take his course: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

150 - Boethius & the Emergence of Neoplatonism

52 min

As we continue through "Life, Death, and Meaning with Beowulf and Boethius," I survey the emergence of Neoplatonism from the pre-Socratics to Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, and Boethius. Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/O0K6HKbHFp0 Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

149 - Paradise Lost, Book V

1 hr 4 min

As we continue through Joshua Traylor's Paradise Lost course, Josh discusses Book V of Paradise Lost. Watch the video of this episode and subscribe to my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/LZg3z2BSgCo Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts: - Mythic Mind - Mythic Mind Games - Mythic Mind Movies & Shows Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship to support Josh and take his course: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.

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