Hello, and welcome to Mythic Mind, where we pursue wisdom in the past
between primary and secondary worlds. I'm your hosting Andrew Snyder, and I am
always grateful for your company. I apologize again for a delay between episodes,
but as many of you likely already know, I've recently had a career shift
that should provide a better chance for me to keep up with content production moving
forward. Up to this point, I had been working forty hours or more
a week in financial services in addition to adjunct teaching a courser to a semester,
while also trying to be a good dad and husband, and until fairly
recently also working on my PhD. However, as I've already mentioned here,
i finished my PhD a few months ago, and just recently I've picked up
some philosophy courses with a local university, and actually it's my undergraduate alma mater
where I first started to study philosophy, and so I'm really excited about this
opportunity. This semester, I'll be teaching a couple of intro courses in an
upper level of medieval philosophy course, in addition to teaching a couple of courses
online for a school in Texas, and although I'm relying on two adjunk posts
right now in addition to Mythic Mind funding, I believe that I'm walking into
a pretty incredible season now. Without being said, I do need my patrons
now more than ever. As some of you may know, adjunct work is
often unpredictable semester to semester, and so your support helps to guarantee that I
have the freedom to continue the podcast, continue developing the Humanity's Guild, and
keeping up with my substack productions and more. We are currently up to forty
three active patrons, which is really incredible, but we still have a long
way to go to make sure that these endeavors are fruitful and sustainable. But
before we go any further, I want to recognize all the super patrons and
higher and so many thanks to Mark Cliff, Nick, Paul, Aaron,
Aaron, Andrew Brandon, Emmy Harrison, I and Jamie, Joscelyn, Joshua,
Katherine, Laura, Matthew and William, and of course thank you to
all of my standard tier patrons as well. I quite literally could not do
this without you. And if you would like to support my work, you
can head over to patreon dot com slash Mythic Mind. Any level of support
from as little as five dollars a month, we'll give you access to exclusive
content, including my series on Grimm's Fairy Tales and an upcoming series on Norsemis.
You'll also get access to the Mythic Mind discord server, and you'll have
the ability to write for our community substack if you still desire, and to
participate in our upcoming community podcasts. Higher tiers will of course provide additional perks
as well, and as a special promotion, if you join this month,
that is August of twenty twenty three, with an annual subscription of any level,
I will send you a copy of Tolkien's translation of and commentary on Bailwulf
as an appreciation gift. And this is a great read that we will be
discussing on the show in the near future. So again, head over to
patreon dot com slash Mythic Mind and lend your support today and again, any
annual subscription will get you that book sent to you as a little thank you
from me. Now I have some interview schedule that will bring us back to
our series on Tales from the Perils realm, but for now, I wanted
to go ahead and get this quick episode out here because it has been so
long since the last one. Also, moving forward, I'm going to do
things a little bit differently to make sure that I'm not struggling so much to
keep up with the schedule, and so once this series concludes with two to
three more full episodes, I'll be taking breaks between seasons so that way I
can bank up episodes before publicly releasing them. They'll still be available for patrons
as soon as they're ready, but this will make my public schedule a little
bit more manageable. Now, before we go, I want to provide a
couple recommendations first, and I think I may have already mentioned this on the
show before, but if so, it's worth another mention. If you haven't
read Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy, go ahead and order it and start it
again. I first read this text about five or six years ago, and
I've read it roughly once a year ever since. So written by Boethius,
a man falsely accused of sedition and condemned to die, this text provides powerful
reflection the nature of fortune and providence and the solace available to us who live
in this world riddled with change and opportunities for anxiety, and so make sure
that you read The Constellation of Philosophy. Additionally, I recently started listening to
the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps podcast. This is a great resource whether
you have a philosophical education and you just want to fill in some gaps,
or you want to brush up on a particular time period, or if you're
a non specialist and you simply have an interest in the development of ideas.
The delivery does tend to be a little bit on the dry side, but
the content is great and about as much as as possible. The podcast lives
up to its name, and so be sure to add it to your rotation.
Again, that was the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps. Okay,
so that's it for now. Be sure to join me next time as they
speak with Thomas Lerno about Tolkien's charming tale Rover Random. Until then, I
welcome your support on Patreon at patreon dot com slash Mythic Mind, and again
make sure that you sign on with an annual subscription to get that book sent
to you. And I really do look forward to returning with a full episode
soon, but for now, I wish you many meaningful roads ahead.