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Lecture 9 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series. In this lecture, I tell the story of Abraham, who heeds the call of God to leave what was familiar behind and to journey into unknown lands. The man portrayed in the Bible as the father of nations moves forward into the world. He encounters the worst of nature (famine), society (the tyranny of Egypt) and the envy of the powerful, who desire his wife. There is nothing easy about Abraham's life. Instead, he is portrayed both as a real man, with serious problems, and a hero, who overcomes tremendous obstacles to establish himself in the world. His covenant with God is an Ark. His decision to aim at the highest good he can conceptualize places an aura of magic around the events of his life, despite their harshness. He's a model for life in the world as it is, not as we wish it would be. Links * Support this Podcast on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson) * Self Authoring (https://selfauthoring.com/) * Jordan Peterson Website (https://jordanbpeterson.com/) * Reading List (https://jordanbpeterson.com/2017/03/great-books/) * Twitter (https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson)

Lecture 8 in the Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series. In the next series of stories, the Biblical patriarch Abram (later: Abraham) enters into a covenant with God. The history of Israel proper begins with these stories. Abram heeds the call to adventure, journeys courageously away from his country and family into the foreign and unknown, encounters the disasters of nature and the tyranny of mankind and maintains his relationship with the God who has sent him forth. He becomes in this manner a light in the world, and a father of nations. How is this all to be understood? I am attempting in this lecture to determine precisely that. How are we, as modern people, to make sense of the idea of the God who reveals himself to a personality? How can we relate the details of the Abramic stories to our own lives, in the current world? In what frame of reference can these stories be seen to make sense, and to reveal their meaning? Links * Support this Podcast on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson) * Self Authoring (https://selfauthoring.com/) * Jordan Peterson Website (https://jordanbpeterson.com/) * Reading List (https://jordanbpeterson.com/2017/03/great-books/) * Twitter (https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson)

Lecture 7 in the Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories Lecture Series. Life at the individual and the societal level is punctuated by crisis and catastrophe. This stark truth finds its narrative representation in the widely-distributed universal motif of the flood. Mircea Eliade, the great Romanian historian of religion, noted that flood stories identify two reasons for the destruction: (1) the tendency of complex things to fall apart of their own accord; (2) the proclivity of human beings to speed up that process by sinning, or missing the mark (by engaging in self-evident corruption, or by failing to attend to what cries out for attention). The Genesis story clearly states that Noah and his family are to be spared from impending disaster because Noah “walks with God,” as Adam did before the Fall. In this lecture, the 7th in the series, I intermingle the story of Noah and his survival with elements of the Sermon on the Mount, making the effort to explain to a modern audience why careful moral attitude and behavior comprises the best defense against “the righteous anger of God.” Links * Support this Podcast on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson) * Self Authoring (https://selfauthoring.com/) * Jordan Peterson Website (https://jordanbpeterson.com/) * Reading List (https://jordanbpeterson.com/2017/03/great-books/) * Twitter (https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson)

Lecture 6 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories lecture series The story of Noah and the Ark is next in the Genesis sequence. This is a more elaborated tale than the initial creation account, or the story of Adam and Eve or Cain and Abel. However, it cannot be understood in its true depth without some investigation into what the motif of the flood means, psychologically, and an analysis of how that motif is informed by the order/chaos dichotomy, as well as by the idea of an involuntary voyage to the underworld or confrontation with the dragon. In consequence, this lecture concentrates almost exclusively on psychology: How is an encounter with the unknown to be understood, conceptually? How and why is that represented with themes such as the underworld voyage, the dragon fight, or the flood? All that constitutes the theme of lecture VI. Links * Purchase Tickets Here for the Bible Series (https://jordanbpeterson.com/bible-series/) * Support this Podcast on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson) * Self Authoring (https://selfauthoring.com/) * Jordan Peterson Website (https://jordanbpeterson.com/) * Reading List (https://jordanbpeterson.com/2017/03/great-books/) * Twitter (https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson)

Lecture 5 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories lecture series The account of Cain and Abel is remarkable for its unique combination of brevity and depth. In a few short sentences, it outlines two diametrically opposed modes of being -- both responses to the emergence of self-consciousness and the knowledge of good and evil detailed in story of Adam and Eve. Cain's mode of being -- resentful, arrogant and murderous -- arises because his sacrifices are rejected by God. This means that his attempts to give up something valuable in the present to ensure prosperity in the future are insufficient. He fails, in consequence, to thrive, as he believes he should, and becomes bitter, resentful and murderous. Abel's mode of being is characterized, by contrast, by proper sacrifice -- by the establishment of balance between present action and future benefit. This ensures his personal and social success, accruing over time. Unfortunately, it also makes him the target of Cain's malevolence. This great short story is relevant personally, on the level of the family, and politically, all with equal force, all simultaneously. Links * Purchase Tickets Here for the Bible Series (https://jordanbpeterson.com/bible-series/) * Support this Podcast on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson) * Self Authoring (https://selfauthoring.com/) * Jordan Peterson Website (https://jordanbpeterson.com/) * Reading List (https://jordanbpeterson.com/2017/03/great-books/) * Twitter (https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson)

Lecture 4 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories lecture series I turned my attention in this lecture to the older of the two creation accounts in Genesis: the story of Adam and Eve. In its few short paragraphs, it covers: * the emergence of human self-consciousness; * mankind's attendant realization of vulnerability, mortality, and death; * the origin of the capacity for willful evil, as the ability to exploit that newly-realized vulnerability; * the emergence of shame as a consequence of that realization; * the shrinking from divine destiny that occurred when shame emerged; and * the beginning of true history, with the self-conscious toil that life in history entails. Impossible. Amazing. Breathtaking. The only story that can perhaps match it in terms of impact per sentence is that of Cain and Abel, which we discuss in the next lecture: number five in this twelve part series. Links * Purchase Tickets Here for the Bible Series (https://jordanbpeterson.com/bible-series/) * Support this Podcast on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson) * Self Authoring (https://selfauthoring.com/) * Jordan Peterson Website (https://jordanbpeterson.com/) * Reading List (https://jordanbpeterson.com/2017/03/great-books/) * Twitter (https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson)

Lecture 3 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series at the Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto. Although I thought I might get to Genesis II in this third lecture, and begin talking about Adam & Eve, it didn't turn out that way. There was more to be said about the idea of God as creator (with the Word as the process underlying the act of creation). I didn't mind, because it is very important to get God and the Creation of the Universe right before moving on :) . In this lecture, I tried to outline something like this: for anything to be, there has to be a substrate (call it a potential) from which it emerges, a structure that provides the possibility of imposing order on that substrate, and the act of ordering, itself. So the first is something like the precosmogonic chaos (implicitly feminine); the second, God the Father; the third, what the Christian West has portrayed as the Son (the Word of Truth). Links * Purchase Tickets Here for the Bible Series (https://jordanbpeterson.com/bible-series/) * Support this Podcast on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson) * Self Authoring (https://selfauthoring.com/) * Jordan Peterson Website (https://jordanbpeterson.com/) * Reading List (https://jordanbpeterson.com/2017/03/great-books/) * Twitter (https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson)

Two-part interview with Transliminal Media's Jordan Levine, April 2017, in Vancouver, Canada. Sequel to the hit 2015 interview 'Religion, Myth, Science, Truth': https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis (https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis) Please support Transliminal Media on Patreon** | https://www.patreon.com/transliminal (https://www.patreon.com/transliminal) Links * Transliminal Media Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/transliminal) * Transliminal Media YouTube Channel (https://www.patreon.com/transliminal) * Self Authoring Programs (http://www.selfauthoring.com) * Dr Peterson's Patreon Support Page (http://www.patreon.com/user?u=3019121)

Lecture 2 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories. In this lecture, I present Genesis 1, which presents the idea that a pre-existent cognitive structure (God the Father) uses the Logos, the Christian Word, the second Person of the Trinity, to generate habitable order out of precosmogonic chaos at the beginning of time. It is in that Image that Man and Woman are created -- indicating, perhaps, that it is (1) through speech that we participate in the creation of the cosmos of experience and (2) that what true speech creates is good. It is a predicate of Western culture that each individual partakes in some manner in the divine. This is the true significance of consciousness, which has a world-creating aspect. Links * Purchase Tickets Here for the Bible Series (https://jordanbpeterson.com/bible-series/) * Support this Podcast on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson) * Self Authoring (https://selfauthoring.com/) * Jordan Peterson Website (https://jordanbpeterson.com/) * Reading List (https://jordanbpeterson.com/2017/03/great-books/) * Twitter (https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson)

Lecture 1 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series from May 16th at Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto. In this lecture, I describe what I consider to be the idea of God, which is at least partly the notion of sovereignty and power, divorced from any concrete sovereign or particular, individual person of power. I also suggest that God, as Father, is something akin to the spirit or pattern inherent in the human hierarchy of authority, which is based in turn on the dominance hierarchies characterizing animals. Links * Purchase Tickets Here for the Bible Series (https://jordanbpeterson.com/bible-series/) * Support this Podcast on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson) * Self Authoring (https://selfauthoring.com/) * Jordan Peterson Website (https://jordanbpeterson.com/) * Reading List (https://jordanbpeterson.com/2017/03/great-books/) * Twitter (https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson)

I'm speaking with Dr. Martin Daly, a professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, a pioneer in the field of evolutionary psychology, and author of Killing the Competition (http://amzn.to/2q3pyAO). Dr. Daly has determined that economic inequality and male on male homicide rates are strongly linked, and makes a causal argument for why this is the case, attributing it to status competition under stressful conditions. To support this podcast: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson (https://www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson) Other relevant links: NEW: Personality analysis: http://www.understandmyself.com (http://www.understandmyself.com) Self Authoring: https://selfauthoring.com/ (http://selfauthoring.com/) Jordan Peterson Website: https://jordanbpeterson.com/ (http://jordanbpeterson.com/) Podcast: https://jordanbpeterson.com/jordan-b-p (https://jordanbpeterson.com/jordan-b-peterson-podcast/)... Reading List: https://jordanbpeterson.com/2017/03/gr (https://jordanbpeterson.com/2017/03/great-books/)... Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson (https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson)

A few weeks ago, Dr. Oren Amitay, who has been defending me in online discussions hosted by the Ontario Psychological Association, invited me to address his psychology class (to which other students were invited). We discussed freedom of speech, ideological possession, unconscious bias and the Implicit Association test, and other issues germane to psychology and the modern world. Apologies for the audio quality, it was cleaned up as best we could, it gets better throughout. Links * Original Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ABa4RdNPxU) * Dr. Oren Amitay's Website * Self Authoring Programs (https://www.selfauthoring.com) * Dr Peterson's Patreon Support Page (https://www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson) * Dr Peterson's Website (http://jordanbpeterson.com) * Podcast Page (http://jordanbpeterson.com/jordan-b-peterson-podcast/) * Reading List (http://jordanbpeterson.com/2017/03/great-books/) * Twitter ( https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson)

Part 1: A Message to Millenials: How to Change the World -- Properly. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbOeO_frzvg&t) Young people want, rightly, to change the world. But how might this be properly done? Dr Jonathan Haidt recently contrasted Truth University with Social Justice University. Social Justice U has as its advantage the call to social transformation. In this video, I outline why Truth is the proper route to societal improvement -- and why that starts with the individual. Part 2: A New Years Message to the World (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnEFt20qe0o&t) A message for those who are looking forward to 2017. Thank you to all of those who have supported my efforts in the recent (and not so recent past). Links * Here is the text of the letter, on my blog (http://jordanbpeterson.com/2016/12/new-years-letter/ ) * Link to Jonathan Haidt’s article on Truth U vs Social Justice U (http://heterodoxacademy.org/2016/10/21/one-telos-truth-or-social-justice/ ) * Link to paper on Future Authoring (http://www.palgrave-journals.com/articles/palcomms201514) * Self Authoring Programs (https://www.selfauthoring.com) * Dr Peterson's Patreon Support Page (https://www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson) * Dr Peterson's Website (http://jordanbpeterson.com) * Podcast Page (http://jordanbpeterson.com/jordan-b-peterson-podcast/) * Reading List (http://jordanbpeterson.com/2017/03/great-books/) * Twitter (Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson)

Tom Amarque is a German philosopher, writer, publisher, and podcaster. With his podcast 'Lateral Conversations' he seeks out - with the help of a wide range of guests - new developments and perspectives in philosophy, psychology, and spirituality, trying to overcome the pitfalls of what is known as postmodernity. He currently lives in Mallorca, Spain. Links * Tom's Podcast: Lateral Conversations (http://www.tom-amarque.de/lateralconversations/) * Tom's Webpage (http://www.tom-amarque.de) * Self Authoring Programs (http://www.selfauthoring.com) * Dr Peterson's Patreon Support Page (http://www.patreon.com/user?u=3019121)

Part 1: Maps of Meaning 10 Figuring Evil – Starting at 0:32 Part 2: Maps of Meaning 11 Losing Religion – Starting at 27:57 Part 3: Maps of Meaning 12 Truths that Matter – Starting at 55:22 Part 4: Maps of Meaning 13 The Force Within – Starting at 1:22:45 Links * YouTube Video playlist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2pNqIdY_T0&list=PL22J3VaeABQC6oShltYc6rMUDAGJ7_G5e&index=10) * Self-Authoring Programs (http://www.selfauthoring.com) * Dr Peterson's Patreon Support Page (http://www.patreon.com/user?u=3019121) * One Time Donation to Dr. Peterson (http://paypal.me/jordanbpeterson)