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Narnia may be written for children, but it is still Lewis doing the writing. This introduction opens the first three Chronicles as fairy stories dense enough for grown minds: Wardrobe, Caspian, and Dawn Treader in publication order.

In this Mythic Mind lecture from the Fiction and Philosophy of C.S. Lewis course, Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) frames how to enter Narnia's secondary world, why fairy-tale form matters, and what Mars, nature, and voyage themes begin to surface across these early books.

Topics include reading order, the low entry bar that still rewards rereading, and how Narnia continues Lewis's larger philosophy of story.

Related:
• Myth Became Fact: The Incarnation as True Myth (Mythic Mind, ep. 116): https://youtu.be/gNI3hTdgXB8
• Mythic Mind 117 - The Great Divorce: https://youtu.be/bHfA0S1KzxM
• On Fairy-Stories: Subcreation, Escape, and Consolation (Mythic Mind, ep. 36): https://youtu.be/a0hIBT-Ncss
• The Fiction and Philosophy of C.S. Lewis: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: https://youtu.be/Mi1eDE8G0dQ

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A bus leaves a grey town that may be hell, and thin ghosts step onto the solid outskirts of heaven. C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce is a dream-vision about the choice that divides: heaven or hell, reality or the self we refuse to surrender.

In this Mythic Mind lecture from the Fiction and Philosophy of C.S. Lewis course, Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) walks the whole book: the grey town, the bright solid people, the Episcopal ghost, and Lewis's hard claim that there are no private affairs before God.

Topics include hell as chosen isolation, the weight of glory made almost unbearable, and why the divorce between good and evil will not be negotiated away.

Related:
• Myth Became Fact: The Incarnation as True Myth (Mythic Mind, ep. 116): https://youtu.be/gNI3hTdgXB8
• Introduction to Narnia, Books 1-3: Wardrobe, Caspian, Dawn Treader (Mythic Mind, ep. 118): https://youtu.be/ro29Ic74aLE
• Till We Have Faces, Part One: Orual Behind the Veil (Mythic Mind, ep. 114): https://youtu.be/1KhXO9V0PRw
• Mythic Mind 115 - Till We Have Faces, Part II: https://youtu.be/DIQVoUnfx6o

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Lewis's "Myth Became Fact" argues that Christianity does not abolish myth. It fulfills it: the dying god becomes historical fact in the Incarnation, and the old longings of pagan story find their home in a particular time and place.

In this Mythic Mind lecture from the Fiction and Philosophy of C.S. Lewis course, Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) walks the essay's claim that myth transcends abstract thought, that incarnation transcends myth, and why the gospel makes myth more real rather than less.

Topics include Logos and particularity, pagan longing baptized, and why Till We Have Faces works as myth rather than didactic exposition.

Related:
• Beowulf, Baldur, and Christ: Myth Became Fact (Mythic Mind, ep. 142): https://youtu.be/K-DIsUnigng
• Till We Have Faces, Part One: Orual Behind the Veil (Mythic Mind, ep. 114): https://youtu.be/1KhXO9V0PRw
• On Fairy-Stories: Subcreation, Escape, and Consolation (Mythic Mind, ep. 36): https://youtu.be/a0hIBT-Ncss
• Mythic Mind 117 - The Great Divorce: https://youtu.be/bHfA0S1KzxM

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Book Two of Till We Have Faces turns Orual's case against the gods inside out. Dreams, digging, and judgment strip the veil she wore for a lifetime until the complaint itself becomes confession.

In this Mythic Mind lecture from the Fiction and Philosophy of C.S. Lewis course, Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) walks Lewis's hardest section: the pillar room, "no fox to help you here," and the moment Orual finally has a face to meet the gods.

Topics include jealousy as love's counterfeit, myth that will not flatten into allegory, and why Lewis thought this his greatest novel.

Related:
• Till We Have Faces, Part One: Orual Behind the Veil (Mythic Mind, ep. 114): https://youtu.be/1KhXO9V0PRw
• Mythic Mind 113 - Introduction to Till We Have Faces: https://youtu.be/CSaprLzGIO8
• Myth Became Fact: The Incarnation as True Myth (Mythic Mind, ep. 116): https://youtu.be/gNI3hTdgXB8
• The Great Divorce: Heaven, Hell, and the Choice That Divides (Mythic Mind, ep. 117): https://youtu.be/bHfA0S1KzxM

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Orual writes her case against the gods with a veiled face and a jealous love. Till We Have Faces, Book One, is Lewis's retelling of Cupid and Psyche as a story about the self we hide and the truth we cannot yet bear.

In this Mythic Mind lecture from the Fiction and Philosophy of C.S. Lewis course, Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) walks Part One of Lewis's greatest novel: Orual's narrative voice, Psyche's sacred beauty, the Fox's Stoic teaching, and the complaint that will not stay quiet.

Topics include veil and identity, possessive love versus gift-love, and why Book One withholds the face we need before the gods can answer.

Related:
• Mythic Mind 115 - Till We Have Faces, Part II: https://youtu.be/DIQVoUnfx6o
• Mythic Mind 113 - Introduction to Till We Have Faces: https://youtu.be/CSaprLzGIO8
• Myth Became Fact (Mythic Mind, ep. 116): https://youtu.be/gNI3hTdgXB8
• Beowulf, Baldur, and Christ: Myth Became Fact (Mythic Mind, ep. 142): https://youtu.be/K-DIsUnigng

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Lewis thought Till We Have Faces was his best novel. Critics shrugged; readers still finish Book One standing at the edge of a mystery. This Mythic Mind introduction opens his retelling of Cupid and Psyche: Orual's veiled face, jealous love, and a myth that aims at the heart before it yields its meaning.

Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) frames why this book feels less like allegory than the Ransom novels, what "bareface" was meant to name, and how to enter Orual's case against the gods without demanding a tidy moral on first pass.

Topics include myth versus on-the-nose allegory, imagination before explanation, and secondary reading that helps without replacing the story.

Related:
• Till We Have Faces, Part One: Orual Behind the Veil (Mythic Mind, ep. 114): https://youtu.be/1KhXO9V0PRw
• Till We Have Faces, Part 2: Orual Unveiled (Mythic Mind, ep. 115): https://youtu.be/DIQVoUnfx6o
• Myth Became Fact: The Incarnation as True Myth (Mythic Mind, ep. 116): https://youtu.be/gNI3hTdgXB8
• The Great Divorce: Heaven, Hell, and the Choice That Divides (Mythic Mind, ep. 117): https://youtu.be/bHfA0S1KzxM

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Lewis's third essay names the endgame: when "man's conquest of nature" becomes a few conditioners remaking everyone else, humanity abolishes itself. Power without the Tao is not progress. It is patients of power wearing the mask of freedom.

In this Mythic Mind lecture from the Fiction and Philosophy of C.S. Lewis course, Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) finishes The Abolition of Man: eugenics and scientific education as predestination, existence-before-essence as a false anthropology, and why That Hideous Strength needs this slim book as its spine.

Topics include the conditioner class, nature reduced to raw material, and why a culture that rejects objective value cannot keep "man" as anything but a temporary slogan.

Related:
• The Abolition of Man, Part 1: Men Without Chests (Mythic Mind, ep. 111): https://youtu.be/voOEKAzHrk0
• The Abolition of Man: Charlie Kirk, Iryna Zarutska, and Moral Blindness (Mythic Mind, ep. 110): https://youtu.be/ZX0zy5IcV0Q
• That Hideous Strength: Opening the Final Ransom Novel (Mythic Mind, ep. 106): https://youtu.be/rTO6qBf0WNs
• That Hideous Strength, Pt. 1: Mark, Jane, and the N.I.C.E. (Mythic Mind, ep. 107): https://youtu.be/6nouFFhsDKs

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This is the introductory video for my course on The Elder Scrolls and Philosophy, which begins the week of 10/19.

To enroll, take the course with a Mythic Mind Fellowship membership: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership

I hope to see you there!

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C.S. Lewis opens The Abolition of Man with a schoolbook that teaches students to distrust their own loves. The result, he warns, is men without chests: intellect and appetite with no trained heart between them.

In this Mythic Mind lecture from the Fiction and Philosophy of C.S. Lewis course, Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) covers the first two essays, "Men Without Chests" and "The Way." He clarifies Lewis's Tao, why sentiment needs education rather than sneering, and how this slim book underwrites That Hideous Strength.

Topics include moral education, the attack on objective value, and why a culture that mocks the chest cannot keep its head.

Related:
• The Abolition of Man: Charlie Kirk, Iryna Zarutska, and Moral Blindness (Mythic Mind, ep. 110): https://youtu.be/ZX0zy5IcV0Q
• Mythic Mind 112 - The Abolition of Man, Part II: https://youtu.be/9vOF7fN0inA
• That Hideous Strength, Pt. 1: Mark, Jane, and the N.I.C.E. (Mythic Mind, ep. 107): https://youtu.be/6nouFFhsDKs
• Myth Became Fact: The Incarnation as True Myth (Mythic Mind, ep. 116): https://youtu.be/gNI3hTdgXB8

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Two murders hit the feed in a way we were never meant to watch: Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte train, then Charlie Kirk. Grief, rage, and online celebration of evil followed. Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) reads those reactions through C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man.

This Mythic Mind episode is not punditry. It is a Lewis-shaped look at moral blindness, the Tao Lewis defended, and what happens when a culture loses the language of good and evil while gaining an artificial omniscience through social media.

Topics include casual exposure to death online, the irrationality of heinous evil, and why The Abolition of Man still names our moment.

Related:
• Mythic Mind 111 - The Abolition of Man, Part I: https://youtu.be/voOEKAzHrk0
• Mythic Mind 112 - The Abolition of Man, Part II: https://youtu.be/9vOF7fN0inA
• Myth Became Fact: The Incarnation as True Myth (Mythic Mind, ep. 116): https://youtu.be/gNI3hTdgXB8
• Mythic Mind 117 - The Great Divorce: https://youtu.be/bHfA0S1KzxM

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