Mythic Mind

Here are some quick updates about what is happening with Mythic Mind this month.

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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.

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In this episode, I discuss our upcoming Fellowship-wide seasonal theme and share a reading from the Inkwell.

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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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In this lecture from his "English Poems and Poets" course, classical teacher Josh Traylor provides a broad overview of literary Romanticism 19th century England.

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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.

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https://mythicmindfellowship.com/the-two-towers-part-2-helms-deep-and-the-palantir-mythic-mind-ep-182/

Tolkien 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-1Yp1Z8dv4

Get the book: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780547928203

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#MythicMind #Tolkien #TwoTowers #HelmsDeep #Palantir #LOTR #Theology #Philosophy

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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.

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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/129785/9780618257591

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We 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/JN81DlZZjq8

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Listen to/watch the Mythic Mind podcasts:
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#MythicMind #AI #Storytelling #JoshDaws #MichaelKane #Philosophy #Creativity #Theology

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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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