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Mythic Mind — 186 episodes

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184 - English Romanticism w/ Josh Traylor

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183 - What is Romanticism? w/ Josh Traylor

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182 - The Two Towers, Part 2: Helm's Deep - The Palantir

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181 - J.R.R. Tolkien and the Long Defeat

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180 - AI Storytelling w/ Former Disney Software Engineer Josh Daws and Novelist Michael Kane

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179 - The American Heritage: 250 Years of Liberty

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178 - The Two Towers, Part 1: The Departure of Boromir to The King of the Golden Hall

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177 - Earendil the Mariner

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176 - The Fellowship of the Ring, Part 4: Lothlórien to The Breaking of the Fellowship

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175 - Sauron and the Passing Shadow

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174 - The Fellowship of the Ring, Part 4: Many Meetings to The Bridge of Khazad-dûm

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173 - Tolkien, Plato and the Ring of Gyges

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172 - The Fellowship of the Ring, Part 2: Bombadil & Ringwraiths

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171 - Tolkien on Allegory and Application

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170 - The Fellowship of the Ring, Part 1

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169 - The Ainulindalë and the Theology of Tolkien's Legendarium

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168 - The Lord of the Rings (Introduction)

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167 - Has Science Answered the Religious Question?

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166 - C.S. Lewis, Conspiracies, and the Power of Friendship

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165 - C.S. Lewis on Aliens, A.I., and Personhood

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164 - ICE Becomes NICE and King Charles Comes to America

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163 - C.S. Lewis and the News

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162 - The Consolation of Philosophy, Book V

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161 - How to Study Literature (w/ Classical Teacher Josh Traylor)

25

160 - Augustine on Time, Eternity, and Freedom

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159 - Paradise Lost, Books XI & XII

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158 - Fate & Providence (The Consolation of Philosophy, Book IV)

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157 - Paradise Lost, Book X

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156 - Tolkien & Athanasius: Arda Healed, not Arda Unmarred

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155 - Paradise Lost, Book IX

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154 - Epicureanism & Stoicism

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153 - Paradise Lost, Books VII & VIII

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152 - The Consolation of Philosophy, Books II & III

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151 - Paradise Lost, Book VI

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150 - Boethius & the Emergence of Neoplatonism

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149 - Paradise Lost, Book V

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148 - The Consolation of Philosophy, Book I

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147 - Paradise Lost, Book IV

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146 - Introduction to Boethius & Medieval Cosmology

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145 - Paradise Lost, Book III

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144 - Beowulf: Life, Death, and Meaning

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143 - Paradise Lost, Book II

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142 - Beowulf Baldur, and Christ

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141 - Paradise Lost, Book I

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140 - Beowulf and the Doom-Worm of Geatland

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139 - Paradise Lost: The Theology of John Milton

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138 - Beowulf & the Saga of the Volsungs

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137 - Paradise Lost: Milton's Other Works

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136 - Beowulf: Grendel's Mother and Winter's Ending

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135 - Silmarillion Course Overview

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134 - Classical Education with John Milton

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133 - The Monsters and the Critics

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132 - The Life of John Milton

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131 - Beowulf to the Death of Grendel

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130 - Introduction to Paradise Lost w/ Josh Traylor

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129 - Introduction to Beowulf

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128 - Life, Death, and Meaning with Beowulf and Boethius

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127 - Mythic Mind's Book, Movie, and Game Recommendations from 2025!

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126 - A Look Back and a Look Ahead

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125 - The Last Battle: Further Up & Further In

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124 - The Magician's Nephew

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123 - The Horse and His Boy

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122 - The Silver Chair

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121 - Intro to The Silver Chair & The Horse and His Boy

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120 - Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

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119 - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

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118 - Introduction to Narnia, Books 1-3

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117 - The Great Divorce

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116 - Myth Became Fact

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115 - Till We Have Faces, Part Two

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114 - Till We Have Faces, Part One

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113 - Introduction to Till We Have Faces

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112 - The Abolition of Man, Part II

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Bonus: The Elder Scrolls & Philosophy - Course Introduction

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111 - The Abolition of Man

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110 - Charlie Kirk, Iryna Zarutska, and the Abolition of Man

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109 - That Hideous Strength, Pt 3

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108 - That Hideous Strength, Part 2

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107 - That Hideous Strength, Part 1

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106 - Introduction to That Hideous Strength

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105 - The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Prepares a Toast

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104 - Introduction to The Screwtape Letters

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103 - Perelandra

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102 - Augustine's Confessions, Books 7-8

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101 - Introduction to Perelandra

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100 - The Stories that Enchant Us

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99 - Out of the Silent Planet

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Bonus: Tolkien's Mad Hobby that Spawned Middle-earth

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98 - Augustine's Confessions, Books 5-6

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97 - Introduction to Out of the Silent Planet

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96 - Its All in Plato: An Introduction to C.S. Lewis

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95 - Star Wars: A New Hope

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94 - Why the Christian Humanities Matter

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93 - Knights of the Old Republic

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92 - Augustine's Confessions, Books 3-4

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91 - Introductory Latin with Hannah Gilmore

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90 - A Brief History of Ideas

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89 - Introduction to Paradise Lost (feat. Josh Traylor)

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88 - C.S. Lewis, Star Wars, and Postmodern Storytelling (feat. Spencer Askew)

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87 - Star Wars Livestream

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86 - Augustine's Confessions, Books 1-2

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85 - Latin, Paradise Lost, and U.S. Government

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84 - The Poetic Edda, Part 7

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83 - On Fairy-Stories (feat. Thomas Salerno and Elisabeth Dawson)

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82 - The BBC's That Hideous Strength

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81 - The Poetic Edda, Part 6

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80 - Video Games, Tolkien, and Sub-Creation

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79 - Plato and KOTOR

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78 - The Art of Video Games (feat. Master Samwise and Joshua Traylor)

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77 - The Future of Mythic Mind

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76 - The Poetic Edda, Part 5

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75 - J.R.R. Tolkien & the Long Defeat

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74 - Philosophy, Lewis, Elder Scrolls, and Latin!

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73 - On Fairy-Stories (feat. Thomas Salerno and Elisabeth Dawson)

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72 - Sauron

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71 - The Ainulindalë

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70 - The Poetic Edda, Part 4

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69 - The Poetic Edda, Part 3

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68 - The Poetic Edda, Part 2

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67 - The War of the Rohirrim

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66 - The Poetic Edda

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65 - Legacy and the Hero's Journey (feat. Chris Jackson)

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64 - The Middle-earth Mixer

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63 - Beowulf and Boethius Course Review

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62 - A Joyful Outpost (feat. Aaron Bair)

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61 - The Meaning of Meaning

127

60 - Boethius and Neoplatonism

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59 - Introduction to Boethius (Updated)

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58 - C.S. Lewis's Ransom Series

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57 - The Doom of Beowulf

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56 - Grendel's Mother

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55 - The Disarming of Grendel

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54 - Abolition of Man Part 2

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53 - The Abolition of Man, Part 1

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Tolkien Letter 1

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52 - Fellowship Chat with Elisabeth Dawson

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51 - Fallout

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50 - The World of C.S. Lewis

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Special: The Classical Life

140

49 - Grendel and the Shadow of the Past

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48 - Beowulf

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47 - Smith of Wootton Major (feat. Aaron Irber)

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46 - Roverandom (feat. Thomas Salerno)

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45 - Summer Plans & Recommendations

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44 - Mythopoeia

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43 - Little Red Riding Hood

147

Special - Mythic Mind Guild Podcast

148

42 - Updates & Recommendations

149

41 - The Unseen Realm

150

40 - Tom Bombadil, Pt. 2 (feat. Jeremy Kee)

151

39 - Quality Over Quantity

152

38 - Farmer Giles of Ham (feat. David Rowe & Aaron Bair)

153

The Mythic Mind Humanities Guild

154

37 - In the House of Tom Bombadil (feat. C.R. Wiley)

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Bonus Episode - Mythic Mind Grows & Little Brier-Rose

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Special: Through the Keyhole

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36 - On Fairy-Stories (feat. John Carswell)

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35 - Leaf by Niggle (feat. Thomas Salerno)

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34 - Tales from the Perilous Realm

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32 - The Next Chapter

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31 - I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

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29 - Being Human

163

27 - The Christian View of the World

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25 - From Heraclitus to Kierkegaard

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23 - Hansel and Gretel

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21 - Despair and Anxious Hope

167

20 - The Forms of Despair

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19 - The Sickness unto Death

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18 - The Crownless Again Shall Be King

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17 - Tolkien Reading Day

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16 - The Sorrow that Makes for Joy

172

15 - To Need God is a Human Being's Highest Perfection

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14 - Anxiety as Saving Through Faith

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13 - The Good, The Bad, and the Anxious

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12 - Yes, The Lord of the Rings is Christian

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11 - What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

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10 - Philosophy & Christian Thought

178

09 - The Existential Moment

179

08 - The Frog-King, or Iron Henry

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07 - I'm Still Here

181

06 - The Dizziness of Freedom

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05 - The Concept of Anxiety (Finally)

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04 - We Need More Butter and Responsibility

184

03 - The Concept of Anxiety, Introduction

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02 - The Concept of Anxiety, Preface

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01 - Introduction to Mythic Mind