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Mythic Mind
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
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- Philosophy chart
- #112
- Episodes
- 199
- Releases
- Weekly
- Typical length
- 35 min
- On air since
- 2021
- Latest episode
- 1 day ago
Episodes
199 episodes, newest first
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30 min
197 - Who Failed Anakin Skywalker?
Show notes
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, Part 1: Men Without Chests (Mythic Mind, ep. 111): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voOEKAzHrk0
Kierkegaard's Concept of Anxiety: Anxiety Is Not an Ailment to Be Removed (Mythic Mind, ep. 196): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqA5coEKKnk
Oblivion's Sheogorath and Kierkegaard's Sickness unto Death (Mythic Mind Games, ep. 34): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZUgEUzaBXU📚 Books discussed
The Sickness unto Death by Søren Kierkegaard: https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780691020280
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius (Relihan translation): https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780872205833
The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis: https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780060652944
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke: https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780199539024Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship:
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- Mythic Mind
- Mythic Mind Games
- Mythic Mind Movies#MythicMind #StarWars #AnakinSkywalker #Philosophy #Psychology #CSLewis #Kierkegaard #Boethius
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34 min
196 - Kierkegaard's Concept of Anxiety: Anxiety Is Not an Ailment to Be Removed
Show notes
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 nextThe Psychology of Søren Kierkegaard: Life in Anxiety and Despair (course introduction): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ6KDO2mNPY
Anxiety Means You Can Choose (Mythic Mind, ep. 189): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwKDIRfQGQY
Kierkegaard on Man’s Highest Perfection (Mythic Mind, ep. 193): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJXOC2PfR3M
The Death of Ivan Ilyich: Am I Guilty? (Mythic Mind, ep. 194): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIgiz_wQbXk
Oblivion's Sheogorath and Kierkegaard's Sickness unto Death (Mythic Mind Games, ep. 34): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZUgEUzaBXU📚 Books discussed
The Concept of Anxiety by Søren Kierkegaard (Thomte translation): https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780691020112
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle: https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9781250798428
Freedom and Its Misuses: Kierkegaard on Anxiety and Despair by Gregory R. BeaboutJoin the Mythic Mind Fellowship:
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- Mythic Mind
- Mythic Mind Games
- Mythic Mind Movies#Kierkegaard #TheConceptOfAnxiety #Philosophy #ChristianPsychology #Existentialism #MythicMind
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45 min
195 - Eschatology in Arda: Did Middle-earth Know Its Ending?
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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 in the Peter Jackson films
34:26 Can film viewers catch it? Hollywood and virtue
37:00 Recommended reading on Tolkien and theology
39:50 How the films led Rev. Wade to Tolkien
43:36 ClosingGet the book: Morgoth's Ring (J.R.R. Tolkien): https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780261103009
Get the book: Tolkien's Theology of Beauty (Lisa Coutras): https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9781137553447
Get the book: The Flame Imperishable (Jonathan S. McIntosh): https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9781621382942
Get the book: Tolkien On Fairy-stories (J.R.R. Tolkien): https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780007582914Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship:
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39 min
194 - The Death of Ivan Ilyich: Am I Guilty?
Show notes
Watch the video: https://youtu.be/mIgiz_wQbXk
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=1KhXO9V0PRwGet 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/membershipListen to/watch the Mythic Mind podcasts:
- Mythic Mind
- Mythic Mind Games
- Mythic Mind Movies#MythicMind #Tolstoy #DeathOfIvanIlyich #BookClub #Philosophy #Theology #CSLewis
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55 min
193 - Kierkegaard on Man's Highest Perfection
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Watch the video:
https://youtu.be/lJXOC2PfR3MWe 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.comFellows 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
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44 min
192 - Exploring the Psyche: Why Socialism Is Poison to the Soul
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Watch the video:
https://youtu.be/Juoxi8xM5eQSocialism 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.comFellows 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 #ExploringThePsyche #Socialism #Kierkegaard #CSLewis #Tolkien #Philosophy #Theology #Psyche
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1 hr 16 min
191 - Exploring the Psyche: Identity and Becoming a Self
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Watch the video:
https://youtu.be/iXr8KuutfW0When 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/_Lbvd79c0d8Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship:
https://mythicmindfellowship.comListen to/watch the Mythic Mind podcasts:
- Mythic Mind
- Mythic Mind Games
- Mythic Mind Movies & Shows#MythicMind #ExploringThePsyche #Identity #Kierkegaard #Boethius #Psychology #Philosophy #Theology
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1 hr 16 min
190 - Exploring the Psyche: The Importance of Home
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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/
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1 hr 18 min
189 - Anxiety Means You Can Choose
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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
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1 hr 25 min
188 - A Life Well Lived
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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 https://mythicmindfellowship.com/
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6 min
187 - Fall Season: Exploring the Psyche
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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 https://mythicmindfellowship.com
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13 min
186 - A Review of the BBC's That Hideous Strength (Readings from the Inkwell)
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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
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20 min
185 - The Mythic Mind Fellowship is Moving!
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[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.
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17 min
184 - English Romanticism w/ Josh Traylor
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In this lecture from his "English Poems and Poets" course, classical teacher Josh Traylor provides a broad overview of literary Romanticism 19th century England.
Josh has listed his course at an incredible rate for us, so take advantage of his offer and enroll today: https://www.patreon.com/JoshTraylor/posts/great-english-of-159883613.
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
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35 min
183 - What is Romanticism? w/ Josh Traylor
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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.
Josh has listed his course at an incredible rate for us, so take advantage of his offer and enroll today: https://www.patreon.com/JoshTraylor/posts/great-english-of-159883613.
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:
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- Mythic Mind Games
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35 min
182 - The Two Towers, Part 2: Helm's Deep and the Palantir
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Watch the video:
https://youtu.be/_XTGWHb0iDYTolkien 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-1Yp1Z8dv4Get the book: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780547928203
Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship:
https://mythicmindfellowship.comListen to/watch the Mythic Mind podcasts:
- Mythic Mind
- Mythic Mind Games
- Mythic Mind Movies & Shows#MythicMind #Tolkien #TwoTowers #HelmsDeep #Palantir #LOTR #Theology #Philosophy
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11 min
181 - J.R.R. Tolkien and the Long Defeat
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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.
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/129785/9780618257591Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership
Listen to all THREE Mythic Mind podcasts:
- Mythic Mind
- Mythic Mind Games
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1 hr 38 min
180 - AI Storytelling: What Remains Properly Human
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Watch the video:
https://youtu.be/1jTkmfAQ9SIWe 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/JN81DlZZjq8Join 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
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34 min
179 - The American Heritage: 250 Years of Liberty
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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.
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178 - The Two Towers, Part 1: The Departure of Boromir to The King of the Golden Hall
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We are continuing our Lord of the Rings study with the Book III, Chapters 1-6.
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Get the book: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780547928203
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