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106 - That Hideous Strength: Opening the Final Ransom Novel
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Lewis called That Hideous Strength a fairy-tale for grown-ups, and it feels nothing like Out of the Sile…
1 year, 1 month ago
105 - The Screwtape Letters: Demonic Advice on Distracting the Soul
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https://youtu.be/wpM57wego3Y
Lewis's Screwtape Letters turn temptation into correspondence: a senior devil coaches a junior tempter o…
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104 - Introduction to The Screwtape Letters
What inspired C.S. Lewis to write The Screwtape Letters?
Did you know that Lewis once began an angelic companion to The Screwtape Letters?
Did you know…
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103 - Perelandra: Paradise, the Un-man, and the Great Dance
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https://youtu.be/90QFX72HsMs
Ransom is shot from Malacandra to the wave-world of Venus: floating islands, an unfallen Lady, the Un-ma…
1 year, 2 months ago
102 - Augustine's Confessions, Books 7–8: Toward Baptism and a New Will
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https://youtu.be/hCK8UYp665A
Books 7 and 8 bring Augustine to the edge of conversion: Neoplatonic light that still cannot save, the b…
1 year, 2 months ago
101 - Introduction to Perelandra: Venus, Temptation, and Unfallen Eve
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https://youtu.be/fPU7aiJOn3k
Before Ransom lands on Venus, Lewis wants you oriented: desire as echo, glory as telos, and a story driv…
1 year, 2 months ago
100 - The Stories That Enchant Us: Myth, Meaning, and Formation
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https://youtu.be/RUSCV-MzO5I
For Mythic Mind's 100th episode, author and teacher Aaron Bair asks what fairy-story enchanted you young…
1 year, 2 months ago
99 - Out of the Silent Planet: Cosmic Hierarchy and Human Bentness
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https://youtu.be/0mLWBTYRhy0
Ransom is kidnapped into the heavens and discovers that Earth is the silent planet: bent, cut off, and h…
1 year, 3 months ago
Bonus: Tolkien's Mad Hobby that Spawned Middle-earth
I am reviving my Substack series on Tolkien's letters, which I am also recording for Tier 2+ patrons at https://www.patreon.com/c/mythicmind.
In this …
1 year, 3 months ago
98 - Augustine's Confessions 5–6: From Carthage Toward Conversion
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https://youtu.be/iAWQCqZGh4I
Books 5 and 6 move Augustine from Carthage toward Milan: rhetoric as career, Manichaean disappointment, …
1 year, 3 months ago