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# Out of the Silent Planet: Cosmic Hierarchy and Human Bentness (Mythic Mind, ep. 99)
- URL: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/out-of-the-silent-planet-cosmic-hierarchy-and-human-bentness-mythic-mind-ep-99/
- Published: 2025-07-07T13:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:45:57.000Z
- Author: Andrew Snyder

Mythic MindEpisode 99

# Out of the Silent Planet: Cosmic Hierarchy and Human Bentness (Mythic Mind, ep. 99)

Dr. Andrew Snyder

7 July 2025

[Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mLWBTYRhy0&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)

## In this episode

Ransom is kidnapped into the heavens and discovers that Earth is the silent planet: bent, cut off, and haunted by a cosmology modernity forgot how to see.

In this Mythic Mind lecture from the Fiction and Philosophy of C.S. Lewis course, Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) walks Out of the Silent Planet as story and medieval vision: the pedestrian philologist as pilgrim, Malacandra’s unfallen hnau, Weston and Devine’s imperial bentness, and why looking up at the heavens as hierarchy still matters.

Topics include cosmic order versus modern space-as-void, language and meeting the other, and how the Ransom trilogy begins by unmaking terrestrial presumption.

### People

**Dr. Andrew Snyder**Host and speaker

### Key themes

- Cosmic order versus modern space as void
- Language and meeting the other

## Related

- [**Mythic Mind 97 - Introduction to Out of the Silent Planet**Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EFZ5StzhXQ&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)
- [**Myth Became Fact: The Incarnation as True Myth (Mythic Mind, ep. 116)**Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNI3hTdgXB8&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)
- [**Mythic Mind 106 - Introduction to That Hideous Strength**Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTO6qBf0WNs&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)
- [**The Philosophy of Out of the Silent Planet**Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LKolNA6o8g&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)

## Books mentioned

- [**Out of the Silent Planet**C.S. Lewis](https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780743234900?ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)

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