About dan

Daniel R. Enbysk

Pacifica Graduate Institute

Dan is currently a PhD student in the Mythological Studies with an Emphasis in Depth Psychology program at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, CA where he is completing his final year of coursework before beginning dissertation research. At Pacifica, he is also the Senior-Co-Editor of the Myth program’s student-run, peer-reviewed journal, Mythological Studies Journal.

Dan’s scholarship explores the mythologies, cosmologies, ontologies and spiritual traditions that bring us into contact with the soul of the world or anima mundi. Through the interdisciplinary study of myth, literature, depth psychology, ecology, and politics, his work seeks to open up fugitive and nomadic possibilities in order to deepen human and more-than-human relating and meaning.

Dan holds Master of Arts degrees in Political Science and in Mythological Studies. He previously taught political philosophy at Tacoma Community College for over a decade and has also worked in the field of ecological restoration, most recently managing an open space restoration program in Tacoma, Washington for EarthCorps. Originally from Portland, Oregon, Dan has lived in Tacoma the past fifteen years and is the father of a teenage son and daughter. When not engaged in his graduate research Dan enjoys exercising and learning fingerstyle guitar.