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The neo-religions of science fiction

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The Myth of Interstellar

Jonathan Nolan has previous I think it's a big part of Nolan's screenwriting. The Greek mythos as a sci-fi show or does that kind of emerge in the writing is definitely there and it's definitely there in interstellar. Interstellar is uh a semi rigorous exploration of interstellar space travel semi rigorous because interstellar space travel is impossible we've explored this in that major episode of the science fiction podcast from season one. Richard Raw who is a Franciscan friar an amistic a self-professed mystic and a student of christian mysticisms so people like Julian of Norwich someone I'm discovering through Richard Raw. Buddhism Islam especially in the Sufi tradition Christianity Judaism in their mystical traditions they

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