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Below, and welcome to Mythic Mind, where we pursue wisdom of the past

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between primary secondary worlds. I'm your
host, Andrew Snyder, and I am

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always grateful for your company. All
right, so it's time for transparency because

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I've come to a conclusion. Actually, by this point, I suppose I

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should say that I've returned to a
conclusion. When I get an idea in

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my head that I want to pursue, I have a tendency to go full

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force and has said unachievably ambitious goals. This may work out for a little

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while, but at some point reality
snaps back and I find myself overwhelmed by

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my commitments. Now I've said things
like this on the show before because this

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is a habitual problem for me.
Oftentimes passions outweigh practicality, because there are

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just so many things and so many
worthwhile things that I want to pursue but

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that simply aren't practical without full time
funding. And hopefully I will get there

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one day, but we are quite
a ways away from that for now.

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I'm going to reel back just a
bit, because if I must choose,

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I would prefer to consistently produce high
quality over high quantity content. I will

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likely continue to fiddle with my content
strategy as I find the optimal flow,

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but here is my current plan.
For a while, I've been striving to

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produce full episodes of the podcast every
other week, but especially now that I'm

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doing interviews, that has become a
big strain on my schedule, and so

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at least for the time being,
I am going to aim to keep my

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schedule of an episode every other week, but I'll be alternating between full episodes,

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which will include interviews or other series
related content, and shorter episodes,

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which will focus on providing recommendations or
just some other thoughts that may be on

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my mind. This will allow me
to keep a steady stream of episodes while

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being able to improve preparation and production
of my fuller episodes. But if I

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need to get off schedule sometimes to
do this rightly, that may happen.

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For the past while, I felt
like I've been flying by the seat of

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my pants too much and not preparing
as much as I'd like to or putting

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enough time into post production. And
I think that that has shown, or

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at the very least it has shown
to me, and so moving forward,

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I believe that you're going to notice
a marked increase in quality, even if

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quantity delays a bit. And after
the season, I'm going to start taking

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breaks between seasons. That way I
can better prepare and provide a better show.

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All right, So next, let's
talk about my substack. I've been

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hesitant to get back into my weekly
substack on Tolkien's Letters simply because I know

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that I can't keep up with it
if you haven't checked it out yet.

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I had started to summarize and reflect
on Tolkien's letters and I really enjoy it,

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and I want to get it going
again. And so again I'm just

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going to reel it back a bit
to make it more practical, more manageable.

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And so instead of weekly post,
I'm going to aim for a post

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every two weeks, and just as
before, post on odd numbered letters will

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be free for all subscribers, but
posts on even number letters will be exclusive

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to patrons at the super patron tier
or hire. And so when you join

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our Patreon community as the superpatron,
I will gift you the paid Subtack subscription.

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And if this interests you, and
then go over to patreon dot com

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slash Mythic Mind and sign on at
the superpatren tier or hire. I really

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believe that slowing down my content schedule
a bit will enable me to produce better

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content, as well as to engage
more in the Mythic Mind, Humanity's guild,

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and generally manage life better. I
may not produce as quickly as it

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like, but it will be nice
for everyone if I could take the time

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to do things the right way.
And so for now, for the rest

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of this episode, I want to
recommend a couple of podcasts to you which

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will have a fairly clear theme.
Now. I don't remember if I've already

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mentioned this in a previous episode,
but one of my recommended podcasts right now

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is Aaron Herber's I Might Believe in
Fairies. Erin is a Catholic, a

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scientist, an entomologist, if I
recall correctly, and as his podcast might

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suggest, he might believe in fairies. Aaron has a strong interest in fantasy

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and fairy and faith, and he'sst
to a number of interesting guests who operate

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in this area in various capacities.
Aaron I have also been in talks about

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bringing him onto the Mythic Mind podcast
in the not too distant future, and

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the next podcast I want to recommend
is one that I just discovered is called

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Haunted Cosmos. It's these two Christians
Protestants this time, who approached the mythological

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and the paranormal from a Christian perspective. It is so easy for today's Christians,

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me included, and to imbibe the
tonic of modernism and to become a

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functional materialist, discounting all echoes of
the paranormal with mundane even harder to believe

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mundane explanation. The old gods are
surely just superstitions, or the very least

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mere psychological projections sea serpents, or
just the tales of primitives and drunkards as

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spirits, spooks and aliens. Well, you get the drift. But what

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if, just maybe we're wrong?
What if modernism is a disease rather than

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a cure. What if there is
more to reality than the things that we

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see? What if we live in
a world of spiritual conflict? What if

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the Bibles harder to register, passages
of magicians, spirits, demons, and

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even ghosts ought to impact the way
that we view and engage with reality.

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If these questions pique your interests,
then check out Haunted Cosmos and hopefully I

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actually be having them onto the show
in the not too distent future as well.

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And now before we go, I'd
like to publicly thank all of my

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superpatrons and higher that's William, Paul
Patrick, Matthew, Laura, Jocelyn,

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Jamie, Ian Harrison, Emmy Clinton, Andrew, Aaron with an A,

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other Eron with an, a,
Eron with an E, and Mark.

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my regular tier patrons as well. And

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I wish you many meaningful trails ahead