The Mythic Mind Shop is open, plus the Pilgrim's Ledger

The Mythic Mind Shop is now open for everyone. Also this week: the Pilgrim's Ledger, home screen install, Eternal Sunshine, and a temperaments quiz.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Love Is Worth Remembering (Mythic Mind Movies, ep. 32)

What if you could erase the person who hurt you the most? Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, with Kit and David: love is worth remembering.

The Task Must be Difficult: Love and Memory in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

What a film about erasing a relationship teaches us about the difficult road that real love requires

Kierkegaard's Concept of Anxiety: Anxiety Is Not an Ailment to Be Removed (Mythic Mind, ep. 196)

A free look into the Kierkegaard course: the preface and introduction to The Concept of Anxiety, where psychology meets its limit and anxiety becomes the threshold of despair or faith.

The remodeled Mythic Mind site, Arda's end, and hope in despair

A look around the new site, plus Mythic Mind ep. 195 and Games ep. 55.

Is Choosing From a Script Still Freedom? The Stanley Parable (Mythic Mind Games, ep. 55)

The Stanley Parable offers you freedom, then shows you that every path was already built for you. But a script you did not write is not necessarily a prison: meaning can be discovered rather than invented, and real freedom needs limits to push against.

Eschatology in Arda: Did Middle-earth Know Its Ending? (Mythic Mind, ep. 195)

Did the people of Middle-earth know how their story ends? Rev. Jeffrey Wade joins Andrew Snyder and Josh to discuss his master's thesis on eschatology in Arda.

Ivan Ilyich, Kierkegaard, and Escaping the Truman Show

Hello, Fellowship, Here are a few things happening around the hearth: New on Mythic Mind: The Death of Ivan Ilyich: Am I Guilty? (ep. 194) We all know we will die one day. It is another thing to consider that it is I who am going to die. In this

The Sickness unto Death: Kierkegaard on Despair and the Self

Where our most fundamental decisions place us, and why the opposite of despair is not happiness but faith

The Death of Ivan Ilyich: Am I Guilty? (Mythic Mind, ep. 194)

Mythic MindEpisode 194 The Death of Ivan Ilyich: Am I Guilty? (Mythic Mind, ep. 194) Dr. Andrew Snyder in conversation with David and Jack 12 October 2026 Watch on YouTube In this episode We all know we will die one day. It is another thing to consider that it is

Kierkegaard begins tonight, plus Video Game grief, and needing God

Friends, Our course on Søren Kierkegaard has officially begun! Over the next eight weeks we'll be reading The Concept of Anxiety and The Sickness unto Death together, two short but profound books on anxiety, despair, and what it means to become a self. Our first live meeting is

Grief in Video Games (Mythic Mind Games, ep. 54)

Mythic Mind GamesEpisode 54 Grief in Video Games (Mythic Mind Games, ep. 54) Dr. Andrew Snyder and guests 7 October 2026 Watch on YouTube In this episode Video games do not merely distract from sorrow. Through time spent with characters, player agency, and participation in sub-creation, they can become

Kierkegaard on Man’s Highest Perfection (Mythic Mind, ep. 193)

Mythic MindEpisode 193 Kierkegaard on Man’s Highest Perfection (Mythic Mind, ep. 193) Dr. Andrew Snyder in conversation with Zach and David 5 October 2026 Watch on YouTube In this episode We are pressed to dissolve into the mass, to wear a demographic as a self, or to win identity

Kierkegaard study starts next week — 10 Fellow seats at 25% off

Our next study, “The Psychology of Søren Kierkegaard: Life in Anxiety & Despair,” begins next week. Become a Fellow to participate, access previous courses, and enjoy the fuller life of the Fellowship. The first 10 people to use this link get 25% off their first year: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/fellow25

Kierkegaard Begins Next Week

Friends, Two new episodes this week, and then the Kierkegaard course opens. Why Socialism Is Poison to the Soul (Mythic Mind, ep. 192) In Mythic Mind ep. 192 challenge a "win at all cost" approach that encourages the political Right to embrace socialism. I try to grant the

Rashomon: How the Psyche Rewrites the Truth (Mythic Mind Movies, ep. 30)

Mythic Mind MoviesEpisode 30 Rashomon: How the Psyche Rewrites the Truth (Mythic Mind Movies, ep. 30) Dr. Andrew Snyder in conversation with Kit and David 30 September 2026 Watch on YouTube In this episode We tend to think that the past is fixed in memory and that our eyes simply

Exploring the Psyche: Why Socialism Is Poison to the Soul (Mythic Mind, ep. 192)

Mythic MindEpisode 192 Exploring the Psyche: Why Socialism Is Poison to the Soul (Mythic Mind, ep. 192) Dr. Andrew Snyder 28 September 2026 Watch on YouTube In this episode Socialism is often sold as justice, necessity, or the only way to win. This Exploring the Psyche episode asks a harder

Exploring the Psyche: Further Up and Further in

Friends, Over the last month, downloads across the Mythic Mind podcasts have nearly doubled. Many of you have been walking with us through this Exploring the Psyche season: anxiety, home, identity, movies, games, and becoming a self. I’m grateful you’re here for it. Here’s what’s new

Exploring the Psyche: Identity and Becoming a Self (Mythic Mind, ep. 191)

Mythic MindEpisode 191 Exploring the Psyche: Identity and Becoming a Self (Mythic Mind, ep. 191) Dr. Andrew Snyder in conversation with Jeremy Kee and Tyler Finders 21 September 2026 Watch on YouTube In this episode Andrew talks with licensed therapists Jeremy Kee and Tyler Finders about identity and becoming a

Dead Poets Society: Kierkegaard and the Self That Cannot Come Home (Mythic Mind Movies, ep. 29)

Mythic Mind MoviesEpisode 29 Dead Poets Society: Kierkegaard and the Self That Cannot Come Home (Mythic Mind Movies, ep. 29) Dr. Andrew Snyder, Mythic Mind Movies 20 September 2026 Watch on YouTube In this episode Dead Poets Society can awaken a self that has gone quiet — and still leave that

Exploring the Psyche: The Importance of Home (Mythic Mind, ep. 190)

Mythic MindEpisode 190 Exploring the Psyche: The Importance of Home (Mythic Mind, ep. 190) Dr. Andrew Snyder in conversation with Jeremy Kee and Tyler Finders 16 September 2026 Watch on YouTube In this episode In this Mythic Mind Exploring the Psyche conversation, Dr. Andrew Snyder talks with licensed therapists Jeremy

Exploring the Psyche: Anxiety, Video Games, and Kierkegaard

Hello friends, This is our weekly round-up, in which I tell you a little about what Mythic Mind has been doing and planning over the last week. This week, much of our attention has turned to anxiety, not simply as something unpleasant to be eliminated, but as something that

Video Games and the Psyche: Agency, Anxiety, and Upbuilding (Mythic Mind Games, ep. 52)

Mythic Mind GamesEpisode 52 Video Games and the Psyche: Agency, Anxiety, and Upbuilding (Mythic Mind Games, ep. 52) Dr. Andrew Snyder 12 September 2026 Watch on YouTube In this episode Video games are not only amusement. They are structured existential experiences: forks that press agency, anxiety, identity, desire, and failure

Anxiety Means You Can Choose (Mythic Mind, ep. 189)

Mythic MindEpisode 189 Anxiety Means You Can Choose (Mythic Mind, ep. 189) Dr. Andrew Snyder in conversation with Tyler Finders and Jeremy Kee 7 September 2026 Watch on YouTube In this episode Anxiety is usually treated as a disease to be eliminated. Medication and psychotherapy have their place, but what