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Why You Keep Returning To Skyrim – Story Worlds as Sacred Spaces

Get Nebula for free, and watch exclusive Like Stories of Old content, by signing up for CuriosityStream: https://curiositystream.com/likestoriesofold Help me make more videos! Support this channel: https://www.patreon.com/LikeStoriesofOld Leave a One-Time Donation: https://www.paypal.me/TomvanderLinden Follow me: Sign up for my weekly newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/likestoriesofold Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LikeStoriesofOld Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tom.vd.linden Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tom_LSOO About this video essay: An exploration of Skyrim as a simulation of sacred space. Sources: Mircea Eliade – The Sacred and the Profane: https://amzn.to/3n4V3WE Robert Moore – The Archetype of Initiation: https://amzn.to/3xc3vIA Further Reading: Like Stories of Old – The Complete Reading List: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/reading-list 10 Books that changed my life: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-books-that-changed-my-life 10 More books that inspired my thinking: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-more-books-that-inspired-my-thinking Media included: Skyrim; The Witcher 3; Mass Effect 3; Death Stranding; The Last of Us Business inquiries: lsoo@standard.tv

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Jacob Spencer

It's a pleasure to echo Tom's ideas described here. I see now how Skyrim had become for me a sacred space, not just a place to have fun but a meaningful part of my life that helped to define me as a person in this world. In this sense it is like a dream where the different forces within the psyche present themselves and the ego drives the action through meaningful choice that serves as the lens in which that ego is revealed, which is the same as to say it is created. I really loved this one.

Oliver Basch

this was the first video I saw of you and since then I have seen them all. they are part of my sunday routine now and maybe something similar to me, sacred places. so keep your impressive work, you have kind of a responsibility here.