Strange Times Call for Strange Storytelling - with Dn. Nicholas Kotar

I've spoken with Dn. Nicholas Kotar a few times on this channel. He is an Orthodox deacon, writer, storyteller and podcaster for Ancient Faith Ratio. He recently published another book in the Raven Son series called Son of the Deathless that's freely available on his website. In this conversation we talk more about storytelling in our current culture and how we can approach more traditional storytelling while living in a postmodern world. We also talk about the new Lord of the Rings series, Rings of Power, Russian novels like Laurus, different kinds of stories like fairy tales and myths compared with contemporary fiction and much more. Get Dn. Nicholas' new novella (Son of the Deathless) for free by subscribing to his website: https://nicholaskotar.com/ Eugene Vodolazkin - Laurus, a Glimpse Into the Medieval Mind:    • Eugene Vodolazkin - Laurus, a Glimpse Into...   ========================= Timestamps 00:00:00 - Coming up next... 00:01:03 - Intro music 00:01:28 - Start 00:02:53 - Nicholas' writing experiences 00:06:00 - Propaganda in storytelling 00:13:15 - Returning to old storytelling 00:15:15 - Writing from the wild 00:18:52 - Storytelling is not enough 00:23:07 - The absolute negator 00:26:17 - Laurus and the lives of the saints 00:29:50 - We had technical difficulties 00:30:58 - Identity in strangeness 00:39:31 - Your story VS fantastical stories 00:44:37 - Diverse casting 00:48:49 - Returning to the wild 00:56:34 - We as artists ========================= The Symbolic World website and blog: http://www.thesymbolicworld.com Merch: http://www.thesymbolicworld.store The Language of Creation (Matthieu Pageau): https://www.amazon.com/Language-Creat... Carving workshop: https://jonathanpageau.thinkific.com/... The Symbolic World podcast: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0gI8bUw... Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... More videos from The Symbolic World: Odysee: https://odysee.com/@thesymbolicworld:2 Clips Channel:    / jonathanpageauclips   French Channel:    / jonathanpageaufrançais   Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/page... Dtube: https://steemit.com/@symbolism Join the conversation: Unofficial Facebook discussion group:   / 1989208418065298   The Symbolic World Reddit:   / thesymbolicworld   Support this channel: Website: https://thesymbolicworld.com/support/ Patreon:   / pageauvideos   Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/jonatha... Paypal: http://www.paypal.me/JonathanPageau Social media links: Facebook:   / thesymbolicworld   Twitter:   / pageaujonathan   Instagram:   / jonathan.pageau   My intro was arranged and recorded by Matthew Wilkinson. My website designers, Anomalist Design: https://www.anomalistdesign.com/