Below, and welcome to Mythic Mind, where we pursue wisdom of the past
between primary secondary worlds. I'm your host, Andrew Snyder, and I am
always grateful for your company. All right, so it's time for transparency because
I've come to a conclusion. Actually, by this point, I suppose I
should say that I've returned to a conclusion. When I get an idea in
my head that I want to pursue, I have a tendency to go full
force and has said unachievably ambitious goals. This may work out for a little
while, but at some point reality snaps back and I find myself overwhelmed by
my commitments. Now I've said things like this on the show before because this
is a habitual problem for me. Oftentimes passions outweigh practicality, because there are
just so many things and so many worthwhile things that I want to pursue but
that simply aren't practical without full time funding. And hopefully I will get there
one day, but we are quite a ways away from that for now.
I'm going to reel back just a bit, because if I must choose,
I would prefer to consistently produce high quality over high quantity content. I will
likely continue to fiddle with my content strategy as I find the optimal flow,
but here is my current plan. For a while, I've been striving to
produce full episodes of the podcast every other week, but especially now that I'm
doing interviews, that has become a big strain on my schedule, and so
at least for the time being, I am going to aim to keep my
schedule of an episode every other week, but I'll be alternating between full episodes,
which will include interviews or other series related content, and shorter episodes,
which will focus on providing recommendations or just some other thoughts that may be on
my mind. This will allow me to keep a steady stream of episodes while
being able to improve preparation and production of my fuller episodes. But if I
need to get off schedule sometimes to do this rightly, that may happen.
For the past while, I felt like I've been flying by the seat of
my pants too much and not preparing as much as I'd like to or putting
enough time into post production. And I think that that has shown, or
at the very least it has shown to me, and so moving forward,
I believe that you're going to notice a marked increase in quality, even if
quantity delays a bit. And after the season, I'm going to start taking
breaks between seasons. That way I can better prepare and provide a better show.
All right, So next, let's talk about my substack. I've been
hesitant to get back into my weekly substack on Tolkien's Letters simply because I know
that I can't keep up with it if you haven't checked it out yet.
I had started to summarize and reflect on Tolkien's letters and I really enjoy it,
and I want to get it going again. And so again I'm just
going to reel it back a bit to make it more practical, more manageable.
And so instead of weekly post, I'm going to aim for a post
every two weeks, and just as before, post on odd numbered letters will
be free for all subscribers, but posts on even number letters will be exclusive
to patrons at the super patron tier or hire. And so when you join
our Patreon community as the superpatron, I will gift you the paid Subtack subscription.
And if this interests you, and then go over to patreon dot com
slash Mythic Mind and sign on at the superpatren tier or hire. I really
believe that slowing down my content schedule a bit will enable me to produce better
content, as well as to engage more in the Mythic Mind, Humanity's guild,
and generally manage life better. I may not produce as quickly as it
like, but it will be nice for everyone if I could take the time
to do things the right way. And so for now, for the rest
of this episode, I want to recommend a couple of podcasts to you which
will have a fairly clear theme. Now. I don't remember if I've already
mentioned this in a previous episode, but one of my recommended podcasts right now
is Aaron Herber's I Might Believe in Fairies. Erin is a Catholic, a
scientist, an entomologist, if I recall correctly, and as his podcast might
suggest, he might believe in fairies. Aaron has a strong interest in fantasy
and fairy and faith, and he'sst to a number of interesting guests who operate
in this area in various capacities. Aaron I have also been in talks about
bringing him onto the Mythic Mind podcast in the not too distant future, and
the next podcast I want to recommend is one that I just discovered is called
Haunted Cosmos. It's these two Christians Protestants this time, who approached the mythological
and the paranormal from a Christian perspective. It is so easy for today's Christians,
me included, and to imbibe the tonic of modernism and to become a
functional materialist, discounting all echoes of the paranormal with mundane even harder to believe
mundane explanation. The old gods are surely just superstitions, or the very least
mere psychological projections sea serpents, or just the tales of primitives and drunkards as
spirits, spooks and aliens. Well, you get the drift. But what
if, just maybe we're wrong? What if modernism is a disease rather than
a cure. What if there is more to reality than the things that we
see? What if we live in a world of spiritual conflict? What if
the Bibles harder to register, passages of magicians, spirits, demons, and
even ghosts ought to impact the way that we view and engage with reality.
If these questions pique your interests, then check out Haunted Cosmos and hopefully I
actually be having them onto the show in the not too distent future as well.
And now before we go, I'd like to publicly thank all of my
superpatrons and higher that's William, Paul Patrick, Matthew, Laura, Jocelyn,
Jamie, Ian Harrison, Emmy Clinton, Andrew, Aaron with an A,
other Eron with an, a, Eron with an E, and Mark.
I'd also like to thank all of my regular tier patrons as well. And
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Mind Humanities Guild, which now includes about forty readers, writers, scholars,
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I wish you many meaningful trails ahead