Mind & Mythos

The Narrative-Cybernetic Synthesis

Integrating cognitive, personality, and narrative theories of psychology

Apr 8 • Dan Ackerfeld

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December 2025

The Psychology of Ritual: How Bodies Make Meaning

What cognitive science can teach us about the importance of rituals

Dec 10, 2025 • Dan Ackerfeld

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September 2025

Psychology Finally Has a Unifying Framework

Gregg Henriques' Theory of Everything

Sep 17, 2025 • Dan Ackerfeld

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May 2025

The Mind of God

Riffing on humanity's oldest idea

May 30, 2025 • Dan Ackerfeld

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April 2025

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

Discussing Bernardo Katrup's Analytic Idealism

Published on Vectors of Mind • Apr 16, 2025

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March 2025

Reading With Purpose

What I've Been Reading, March 2025

Mar 28, 2025 • Dan Ackerfeld

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February 2025

Reinterpreting Ragnarök: Myths of Culture and Decline

The Stories We Tell: Chapter 2

Feb 28, 2025 • Dan Ackerfeld

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January 2025

Why Was Carl Jung Racist?

On making value judgements

Jan 24, 2025 • Dan Ackerfeld

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What I Read in 2024

+ Reading/writing plans for 2025

Jan 7, 2025 • Dan Ackerfeld

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December 2024

Mind and Mythos with Dan Ackerfeld

Death, rebirth, models of self, snakes, and the DSM

Published on Vectors of Mind • Dec 5, 2024

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July 2024

Stop Using Fiction to Push Politics

I recently read two classic novels: The Stranger by Albert Camus, and For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway.

Jul 5, 2024 • Dan Ackerfeld

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June 2024

Perhaps We Expect Too Much of God

A sermon

Jun 3, 2024 • Dan Ackerfeld

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