Mythic Mind Academy
The Reading Room
Courses, book clubs, and good company in the Christian humanities
Welcome in. Pull up a chair. This is the room where the Fellowship reads, studies, and talks together, whether we are working through Kierkegaard on anxiety, following Augustine from the stolen pears to the garden, or traversing Middle-earth and Narnia.
Every course here is included for Fellows and Companions, and the podcast book clubs are open to anyone who wants to read along. Stay as long as you like, and click on the “Enter the Old World Study” button to enjoy our Old World Reading Room.
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Read Together
Our podcast book club read Augustine’s Confessions together, from the restless heart and the stolen pears to the garden where “take and read” finally breaks the deadlock. Every episode is free to hear.
Augustine’s Confessions
The Poetic Edda
The old northern poems of gods and heroes, from the world’s beginning to the fall of the Niflungs, read in the light of the true Myth.
- Part 1Völuspá and Hávamál
- Part 2Vafthrudnir’s Sayings, Grimnir’s Sayings, Skirnir’s Journey, and Harbard’s Song
- Part 3Hymir’s Poem, Loki’s Quarrel, Thrym’s Poem, and The Poem of Volund
- Part 4All-wise’s Sayings and the Helgi Poems
- Part 5Sinfiotli, Gripir, and the Lays of Regin, Fafnir, and Sigrdrifa
- Part 6Sigurd, Brynhild, the Niflungs, and the Lays of Atli
- Part 7The Whetting of Gudrun to the Waking of Angantyr
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Study
Each course is a guided study with lessons, readings, and recorded discussions. Every one is included for Fellows and Companions.
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The Psychology of Søren KierkegaardLife in Anxiety and Despair
8 sessions, October to December 2026
A guided exploration of anxiety, despair, faith, and authentic existence, drawing from Kierkegaard's The Concept of Anxiety and The Sickness unto Death.
Included for Fellows and Companions
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The Wisdom of TolkienThe Lord of the Rings
12 weeks
A 12-week study of The Lord of the Rings, in which we discuss the text and related topics of legends, lore, and philosophy.
Included for Fellows and Companions
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The Fiction and Philosophy of C.S. Lewis
12 weeks
In this 12-week study, we discuss all of Lewis's main works of fiction, tracing ongoing themes and ideas that run throughout his corpus. Special attention is given to Lewis's approach to myth in relation to Christian thought.
Included for Fellows and Companions
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Plato, Stoicism, and Till We Have Faces
8 weeks
Explore ancient wisdom and modern existential questions through Plato, the great Stoics, and C.S. Lewis’s powerful novel.
Included for Fellows and Companions
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The Wisdom of TolkienThe Silmarillion
8 weeks
A deep study on the mythic history of Middle-earth from the dawn of creation to the end of the Second Age (and beyond).
Included for Fellows and Companions
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VIComing mid-November 2026
Life, Death, and Meaningwith Beowulf and Boethius
8 weeks
Ancient voices on mortality, fate, and finding purpose in a perilous world.
Included for Fellows and Companions
The course page opens on release.
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Gather
The Fellowship Hall is home base for members: the calendar, the Discord, the members’ podcast feed, and every course. Live sessions meet in the evening, Eastern time.
Members find everything in one place, from the course recordings to the Discord.
Enter the Fellowship HallComing up
- Kierkegaard course live meeting
- Movies chat: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Games chat: To the Moon
- Kierkegaard course live meeting
- Movies chat: Batman Begins
- Games chat: Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
- Kierkegaard course live meeting
- Kierkegaard course live meeting
- Movies chat: Bo Burnham: Inside
- Games chat: Portal 1 and 2
- Kierkegaard course live meeting
- Kierkegaard course live meeting
New sessions are posted on the calendar.
See the full calendarMembership
Fellows and Companions study every course in the Academy, current and future.
Fellow: $17/month or $149/year (27% off) • Companion: $29/month or $290/year (17% off)
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