One of the most exciting things about a new theory is that it can give us a different or deeper understanding of things that we didn’t originally consider when developing the theory itself. This post explores the writing of C. S. Lewis from the perspective of Two Minds Theory. C. S. Lewis is best known as a Christian apologist and the author of the Chronicles of Narnia children’s stories. However, two other facts make him an interesting case study: First, Lewis was a great observer of his own thoughts in books like his early allegorical novel The Pilgrim's Regress , his autobiography Surprised by Joy, and the journal that he wrote after his wife’s untimely death, A Grief Observed. Second, Lewis was himself a theorist about the workings of the mind. He was an inveterate reader, considered the best-read man in England during his lifetime, and drew routinely on classical as well as contemporary sources in his arguments. This combination of characteristics makes him a fasc...