Mind & Mythos

Psychology Finally Has a Unifying Framework

Gregg Henriques' Theory of Everything

Sep 17 • 

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June 2025

Essay Club (Finale): The Cauldron of Reality by Andrew Henry

"We must face the question - did our myths actually happen?"

Jun 27 • 

Dan Ackerfeld

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May 2025

The Mind of God

Riffing on humanity's oldest idea

May 30 • 

Dan Ackerfeld

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Essay Club: On Fairy-Stories by J. R. R. Tolkien

"The adjective: no spell or incantation in Faerie is more potent."

May 17 • 

Dan Ackerfeld

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April 2025

Essay Club: I Am Not a Story by Galen Strawson

"Self-knowledge comes best in bits and pieces."

Apr 21 • 

Dan Ackerfeld

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More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth, and Belief

Discussing Bernardo Katrup's Analytic Idealism

Published on Vectors of Mind • Apr 16

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March 2025

Reading With Purpose

What I've Been Reading, March 2025

Mar 28 • 

Dan Ackerfeld

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Essay Club: Ideas are Alive and You are Dead by Roger's Bacon

"Do unto ideas as you would have them do unto you."

Mar 14 • 

Dan Ackerfeld

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February 2025

Reinterpreting Ragnarök: Myths of Culture and Decline

The Stories We Tell: Chapter 2

Feb 28 • 

Dan Ackerfeld

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Essay Club: Religion, Heuristics, and Intergenerational Risk Management by Rupert Read & Nassim Taleb

"The sacred is not open to rationalization."

Feb 14 • 

Dan Ackerfeld

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January 2025

Why Was Carl Jung Racist?

On making value judgements

Jan 24 • 

Dan Ackerfeld

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Essay Club: I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup by Scott Alexander

"If you’re part of the Blue Tribe, then your outgroup isn’t al-Qaeda, or Muslims, or blacks... it’s the Red Tribe."

Jan 17 • 

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