On this episode or the Symbolic World podcast, I will be playing for you a discussion I had with Father Stephen Damic.

Father Stephen has become a staple in North American Orthodoxy. He has a podcast. He has written a book.

And he's also doing videos. He actually has two podcasts. So he's really, really involved. And what we wanted to talk about was his new podcast, which looks at the relationship

between J.R. Tokine and how some of his world building and the manner in which he describes the

world how it can be understood through an orthodox lens, how it has some similarities with

orthodoxy. And so we really talked about how stories can be applicable

to our lives in the world and how that is really the core of symbolism, not some abstract

understanding of something, but to see how the patterns can be used to apply in other circumstances.

So just to remind you that everything I'm doing here, all the videos,

all the podcasts are done thanks to your support. So you can go to the symbolic world.com

slash support and find ways to help out the podcast. To all the patrons, all the people who are

helping me out, I am offering often some advanced view of videos, but mostly now I've started

doing one video a month, which is just for patron, and is an interpretation of some traditional

stories. So this month, I am doing Rumpelstilskine. So please enjoy the discussion, and I'll talk to you

soon. This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world.

Hello everybody. I am sitting here with Father Andrew Damik. Father Damik is an Orthodox priest.

He's also an author. He's written a few books. And he is a podcaster. He's been doing several podcasts, but mostly recently he started

an interesting podcast on the relationship between Christianity and general, Orthodoxy in particular,

and Tokian's work in the Lord of the Rings,

in the Simularian, and his other works. And so I thought it would be a really interesting

opportunity to talk to Father Andrew, just because I know a lot of you are watching me,

are interested in stories like mythology, like traditional stories, and a lot of you are also

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