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Hello, and welcome to Mythic Mind. We pursue wisdom in the past between

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primary secondary world. I'm your host, Andrew Schnyder, and as always,

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I am truly grateful for your company. This is going to be a short

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episode for updates and recommendations, although
I do plan a have some more interview

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episodes coming very soon. But first
I want to announce a name change for

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the Mythic Mind community. I had
been calling it the Mythic Mind Humanities Guild,

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but that sounds a bit clunky and
maybe even a little stodgy. Perhaps

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for that reason, I found that
some people thought that it was only for

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academics, and well, we do
have some scholars and educators in our midst.

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This is a fellowship for everyone who
enjoys Christian thought, reading, writing,

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creating, and otherwise engaging with the
true, the good, and the

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beautiful. And so with that in
mind, the Guild is now known as

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the Mythic Mind Fellowship. Now some
of you may be wondering what the Fellowship

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is. Well, to be more
direct about it, it's a group made

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out of Mythic Mind patrons. We
have a private discord server for discussing current

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projects, books, and whatever else
is on our mind. We have a

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Fellowship substack which is open to submissions
from all members and which can serve to

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direct readers to your personal platforms as
well. We also have a Fellowship podcast,

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which also has recently been rebranded as
the Mythic Mind Fellowship and so,

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by the way, if you don't
already listen to that podcast, be sure

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to subscribe to the Mythic Mind Fellowship
podcast. If you would like to join

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the Fellowship, you can head over
to patreon dot com slash Mythic Mind and

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lend your support with as little as
five dollars a month, although higher levels

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of support are certainly appreciated and come
with some extra perks. For now,

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I'd like to thank the current Fellowship
members and the super Patron tier in higher

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so many thanks to Mark Cliff,
Nick, Paul Aaron, Aaron, Andrew

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Brandon, Emmy Harrison, Ian Jamie
Jeremiah, Joscelyn, Joshua, Laura,

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Matthew and William and also many thanks
to the twenty or so members at the

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Standard patron tier as well. As
I rely on the thrones of adjunct work

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for my primary income, your financial
support is necessary for ensuring that I have

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the time to continue investing in the
continually growing branches of Mythic Mind, raising

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the quality and utility for everyone involved. And again, if you would like

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to become a member of the fellowship, head over to patreon dot com slash

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Mythic Mind. Next, I'm starting
to put together some summer plans. My

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institutional course load is lighter in the
summer, and so I'm turning my attention

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to the broader community to offer some
studies that I believe will be of some

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value. I recently ran a poll
on Twitter with some options, which receive

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a total of four hundred and twenty
nine votes. The options were intro to

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Philosophy, Kirkey Guard, Tolkien and
Lewis, and Life, Death and Meaning,

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a version of which I'm going to
be teaching on camp in the spring.

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Tolkien and Lewis went out. However, each of these options had enough

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interest to justify giving them a run
with enough early commitment, and so here's

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the current plan, although the details
are subject to change. Introduction to Philosophy,

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Kirkey Guard and Life, Death and
Meaning will each beat twelve week studies,

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and Lewis and Tolkien will be twenty
weeks each week will include exclusive videos,

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also available through a private podcast feed
live discussion for anyone able to attend

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a private discord server for anyone who
likes to communicate throughout the week, and

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encouraged, although it certainly not required, assignments such as short blog posts and

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or recordings which will receive my feedback. With your consent, These assignments will

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be published through Mythic Mind channels such
as the Substack, podcast, Twitter and

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so forth, and any content that
you allow me to publish will include full

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attribution and direction to any personal platforms
that you would like to promote now so

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I can afford the preparation and delivery
time required to make these studies truly meaningful,

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that will be a relatively small fee
attached. The twelve week courses will

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be three hundred dollars each and the
twenty week course will be five hundred,

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although there will be a midway hop
on hop off point if you'd only like

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to commit to Tolkien or Lewis.
I'm posting more detailed course descriptions throughout this

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week on Twitter, and I will
offer more details in time to come regarding

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platforms and whatnot. The best way
to stay updated is to follow them.

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I currently pin Twitter thread, although
I will provide more details here, either

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as a standalone episode or maybe in
the next full episode. If you believe

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that you would be likely to enroll
in any of these courses, then please

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let me know as soon as possible
so I know what to expect and how

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to prioritize. You can let me
know on Twitter, you can reach out

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to me through Patreon or discord if
you're a member of the Fellowship, or

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you can email me at Mythicmind podcast
at gmail dot com. And so let

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me know which of these courses you
would be interested in enrolling in, and

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the sooner that you let me know, the sooner that I can put some

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plans in place. So now some
recommendations. I recently read C. S.

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Lewis's Ransom trilogy you'd sometimes refer to
as his trilogy. Now, as

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a general statement, I'm just gonna
say that it's incredible. Now, I

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know some of you may not be
into science fiction, but it really isn't

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science fiction. It is, first
and foremost a drama regarding Christian spirituality.

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It's a contest between God and devils
and the natural alliances that the devils strike

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up with a cult of empty progress
that finds a natural residence in the heart

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of men. If you've read and
appreciated the Screwtape Letters, or if you

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already feel some unease toward the path
that we're headed as a society, you

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will find in the Ransom Trilogy a
cautionary, perhaps even a prophetic tale that

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will open your mind even greater realities
at play and will steal your resolve to

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take the right side of this cosmic
conflict. As Lewis writes in Perilandra,

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the second book of the series,
a man who has been in another world

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does not come back unchanged. I
think that statement certainly applies to your journeying

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through the Ransom Trilogy. Oh and
if you don't have time to sit down

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and read a trilogy right now,
you can also download the entire cities for

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free from Audible if you have an
account. It's a good recording and it's

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a good route to go. But
that's it for now. Be sure to

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let me know if you're interested in
any of the studies that I mentioned,

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and I hope that you'll consider joining
the Mythic Mind Fellowship. But until next

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time, I wish you many meaningful
roads ahead,