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Episodes from Mythic Mind, Mythic Mind Games, and Mythic Mind Movies
A single place to find video episodes from across the Fellowship. New releases will appear here as they are published.
You can also listen to most of these discsussions on the Mythic Mind podcasts: Mythic Mind, Mythic Mind Games, and Mythic Mind movies, as well as the comprehensive members' podcast feed.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich: Am I Guilty? (Mythic Mind, 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.
Watch Episode →Grief in Video Games (Mythic Mind Games, ep. 54)
Video games do not merely distract from sorrow. Through time spent with characters, player agency, and participation in sub-creation, they can become a unique art form for facing grief, mortality, and what loss teaches the soul.
Watch Episode →Kierkegaard on Man’s Highest Perfection (Mythic Mind, ep. 193)
We are pressed to dissolve into the mass, to wear a demographic as a self, or to win identity from whatever community we most esteem. Kierkegaard’s answer cuts the other way: the glory of the human being is to recognize utter dependency on God.
Watch Episode →Rashomon: How the Psyche Rewrites the Truth (Mythic Mind Movies, ep. 30)
We tend to think that the past is fixed in memory and that our eyes simply tell us the truth. Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon shows something more unsettling: people can witness the same event and remember it differently, not only because they lie, but because pride, shame, fear, and self-preservation shape what they are able to see.
Watch Episode →Exploring the Psyche: Why Socialism Is Poison to the Soul (Mythic Mind, ep. 192)
Socialism is often sold as justice, necessity, or the only way to win. This Exploring the Psyche episode asks a harder question: what does that bargain do to the soul?
Watch Episode →Exploring the Psyche: Identity and Becoming a Self (Mythic Mind, ep. 191)
Andrew talks with licensed therapists Jeremy Kee and Tyler Finders about identity and becoming a self — freedom, recognition, and who we are becoming in the Exploring the Psyche season.
Watch Episode →Dead Poets Society: Kierkegaard and the Self That Cannot Come Home (Mythic Mind Movies, ep. 29)
Dead Poets Society can awaken a self that has gone quiet — and still leave that self stranded between inspiration and a life it cannot inhabit. Andrew reads the film through Kierkegaard: freedom, anxiety, and the self that cannot come home.
Watch Episode →Exploring the Psyche: The Importance of Home (Mythic Mind, ep. 190)
Andrew talks with licensed therapists Jeremy Kee and Tyler Finders about the value of home: roots and responsibility, the fear of committing to the wrong thing, hobbits who leave the Shire in order to save it, and C.S. Lewis’s reminder that pleasant inns are not the final destination.
Watch Episode →Grief in Video Games (Mythic Mind Games, ep. 54)
Video games do not merely distract from sorrow. Through time spent with characters, player agency, and participation in sub-creation, they can become a unique art form for facing grief, mortality, and what loss teaches the soul.
Watch Episode →Video Games and the Psyche: Agency, Anxiety, and Upbuilding (Mythic Mind Games, ep. 52)
Video games are not only amusement. They are structured existential experiences: forks that press agency, anxiety, identity, desire, and failure on a real self, whether the world on screen is "primary" or secondary.
In this Mythic Mind Games season opener for Exploring the Psyche, Andrew makes the case for approaching games with seriousness and discernment.
Anxiety Means You Can Choose (Mythic Mind, ep. 189)
Anxiety is usually treated as a disease to be eliminated. Medication and psychotherapy have their place, but what if, in our pursuit of so-called mental health, we are lobotomizing something essential to being human?
Watch Episode →Carpe Diem Unbounded: Dead Poets Society (Mythic Mind Movies, ep. 28)
The romantic spirit can wake a sleeping life, give verse to the willfully mute, and make the world feel alive again. However, it can also blind us to the body we have, the people we owe, the school, the father, the future that will not be rewritten by a feeling, however profound.
Watch Episode →A Life Well Lived (Mythic Mind, ep. 188)
Andrew discusses the good life with two clinical psychotherapists.
Watch Episode →Fall Season: Exploring the Psyche (Mythic Mind, ep. 187)
Something new is happening with Mythic Mind this fall.
Watch Episode →New Academy course - The Psychology of Søren Kierkegaard: Life in Anxiety and Despair
An overview of what to expect in the upcoming Kierkegaard course.
Watch Episode →The Return of the King Film Discussion
In this episode, we discuss the highs and lows of Peter Jackson's The Return of the King
Watch Episode →Inkwell Reading: A Review of the BBC's That Hideous Strength (Mythic Mind, ep. 186)
C.S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength is a profound, still very underread story that provides penetrating insights into the growing forces of dehumanization that drive much of our culture.
In 2025, the B.B.C produced an audio drama adaptation. Here is my review.
Facing Fate in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
How are Final Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth framing our relationship with fate? Is Rebirth faithful to the spirit of the original?
Watch Episode →The Two Towers as Film and Adaptation
In this episode, we discuss the highs and lows of Peter Jackson's The Two Towers.
Watch Episode →The Mythic Mind Fellowship is Moving!
Join me on a tour of Mythic Mind's new home, including the members' only section, which, at the time of this recording, is not yet available!
Watch Episode →Final Fantasy: Advent Children
This is a visually engaging project with the potential for great psychological exploration. Even if that potential is mostly untapped, Advent Children is definitely worth your time if you are a fan of the franchise.
Watch Episode →The Fellowship of the Ring as Film and Adaptation
In this episode, we discuss the highs and lows of Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring.
Watch Episode →What is Romanticism? w/ Josh Traylor
In this lecture from his "English Poems and Poets" course, classical teacher Josh Traylor provides a broad overview of literary Romanticism in 19th-century England.
Watch Episode →Final Fantasy VII Remake
In this episode, we discuss the 2020 remake/reimagining/sequel of the iconic 1997 JRPG. As a fan of the original game for nearly 30 years, I enjoyed the opportunity to discuss this new take with Micah.
Watch Episode →Escaping the Truman Show
How do we know what is real? How do we move beyond the artificial worlds crafted by various sectors of society, the internet, and our own minds? In this episode, we discuss one of Jim Carrey's finest works: The Truman Show.
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