The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

Part 1: Maps of Meaning 7 Contemplating Genesis – Starting at 0:32 Part 2: Maps of Meaning 8 Dwelling on Paradise – Starting at 27:57 Part 3: Maps of Meaning 9 Becoming A Self – Starting at 55:22 Links * YouTube Video playlist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EWelXuo2JM&list=PL22J3VaeABQC6oShltYc6rMUDAGJ7_G5e&index=7) * Self-Authoring Programs (http://www.selfauthoring.com) * Dr Peterson's Patreon Support Page (http://www.patreon.com/user?u=3019121)

Dr. James W. Pennebaker is Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, and the Executive Director of Project 2021, aimed at rethinking undergrad education at that university. I first encountered Dr. Pennebaker's work when I was working on the SelfAuthoring Suite (www.selfauthoring.com), an online writing program which has helped thousands of college students stay in school and get better grades. He conducted the original work on "expressive writing," starting in the 1980's, showing that people's health and productivity improved when they wrote about traumatic experiences or uncertainty -- particularly if they constructed causal accounts or plans. He has also investigated the psychological significance of patterns of word use (particularly about everyone's favorites, pronouns). We talk about all of this, and much more. Dr. Pennebaker's books include: * "Opening Up by Writing it Down" (http://amzn.to/2mQX09L) * "Expressive Writing: Words that Heal" (http://amzn.to/2m6eIWP) * The Secret Life of Pronouns" (http://amzn.to/2lqfRvu) You can find out more about The SelfAuthoring Suite, which helps people write about the difficulties and uncertainties of the past (Past Authoring), present (Present Authoring) and Future (Future Authoring) at www.selfauthoring.com. NPR did a popular story on the suite: The Writing Assignment that Changes Lives (http://n.pr/1TpZIxd) You can find out more about Dr. Pennebaker's research, learn more about psychology, and improve your knowledge of yourself at these websites: * JW Pennebaker at U Texas Austin (http://bit.ly/2mQW4lY) * JWP's computer program for word analysis (http://www.liwc.net) * JWP's exercises for self-understanding (http://bit.ly/2mDUZ49) * JWP's Language of Truth and Lies and other videos (http://bit.ly/2mE25pl)

Part 1: Maps of Meaning: 4 Games People Must Play 0:32 Part 2: Maps of Meaning: 5 Grappling with Fear 27:59 Part 3: Maps of Meaning: 6 Submitting to Order 55:23 Links * YouTube Video playlist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOcNihk09YM&index=4&list=PL22J3VaeABQC6oShltYc6rMUDAGJ7_G5e) * 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: 1 Monsters of Our Own Making. This is the first of a 13-part 30 minute episode television series broadcast by TVO presenting Dr. Jordan B Peterson's lectures on his book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief. The lecture provides a good introduction to the psychology of mythology and religion, based on the idea that stories from these domains describe the world as a place of action, rather than, as science does, a place of things. Part 2: Maps of Meaning: 2 Contending with Chaos Part 3: Maps of Meaning: 3 Becoming Like Gods Links * YouTube Video playlist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knEZN9U-9xc&list=PL22J3VaeABQC6oShltYc6rMUDAGJ7_G5e&index=1) * Self-Authoring Programs (http://www.selfauthoring.com) * Dr Peterson's Patreon Support Page (http://www.patreon.com/user?u=3019121)

A conversation with Samuel Andreyev: A composer, poet, teacher and performer. His music is performed, broadcast, recorded and written about worldwide, and is known for its expressive intensity, spirit of exploration and enormous range of timbres. Resolutely independent, his compositional process is marked by a rigourous perfectionism, with many projects taking years to reach completion. Samuel Andreyev studied composition with Allain Gaussin in Paris, then at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he obtained a masters degree in composition under Frédéric Durieux, and a prix d’analyse under Claude Ledoux. He also studied electroacoustics at IRCAM from 2011-12. His composition Night Division was awarded the grand prix of the Concours Henri Dutilleux in 2012. In the same year, he was awarded a one-year residency at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid. Frequently sought after as a guest lecturer, Samuel Andreyev teaches privately and in many conservatories and universities across Europe and North America. Samuel Andreyev’s music is performed throughout the world by ensembles such as Esprit Orchestra, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, les Percussions de Strasbourg, HANATSU miroir and many others. His scores are published by Alphonse Leduc (France), Impronta (Germany), and Resolute (USA). His most recent book, The Relativistic Empire, was released in October 2015 from Bookthug. A widely-praised portrait CD by Ensemble Proton Bern, produced by Radio France, was released by Klarthe Records (dist. Harmonia Mundi) in February 2016. He lives in Strasbourg. Links * Samuel Andreyev Personal Website (http://www.samuelandreyev.com/) * Samuel Andreyev YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/user/temporalfissure) * Samuel Andreyev Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/samuel-andreyev) * Self Authoring Programs (http://www.selfauthoring.com) * Dr Peterson's Patreon Support Page (http://www.patreon.com/user?u=3019121)

A conversation with Author Gregg Hurwitz covering a variety of topics, including Gregg's recent work, writing practices, perfection vs. wholeness, superheroes & archetypal heroes, how to balance intimacy and work, limits of comedy, free speech, and more. Gregg Hurwitz is the critically acclaimed, New York Times and internationally bestselling author of 17 novels, most recently, THE NOWHERE MAN (http://gregghurwitz.net/orphan-x-thrillers/). His books have been nominated for numerous awards, shortlisted twice for best novel of the year by International Thriller Writers, nominated for CWA’s Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, chosen as feature selections for all four major literary book clubs, honored as Book Sense Picks, nominated for the Galaxy National Book Award, and published in 30 languages. Gregg has written screenplays for or sold spec scripts to many of the major studios, and written, developed, and produced television for various networks. He is also a New York Times Bestselling comic book writer, having penned stories for Marvel (Wolverine, Punisher) and DC (Batman, Penguin). He has published numerous academic articles on Shakespeare, taught fiction writing in the USC English Department, and guest lectured for UCLA, and for Harvard in the United States and internationally. In the course of researching his thrillers, he has sneaked onto demolition ranges with Navy SEALs, swum with sharks in the Galápagos, and gone undercover into mind-control cults. Hurwitz grew up in the Bay Area. While completing a BA from Harvard and a master’s from Trinity College, Oxford in Shakespearean tragedy, he wrote his first novel. He was the undergraduate scholar-athlete of the year at Harvard for his pole-vaulting exploits, and played college soccer in England, where he was a Knox fellow. He now lives in L.A. where he continues to play soccer, frequently injuring himself. Links * The Nowhere Man (http://gregghurwitz.net/orphan-x-thrillers/) - Gregg's Newest Orphan X Novel * Gregg's Website (http://gregghurwitz.net/) * The Book of Henry (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4572792/)- Gregg's Upcoming Feature Film * The Penguin Graphic Novel (https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B009CEXF4S/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1) * Self Authoring Programs (http://www.selfauthoring.com) * Dr Peterson's Patreon Support Page (http://www.patreon.com/user?u=3019121)

This is the first Big Ideas Lecture performed by Jordan Peterson, back in 2002. He reads a book for very young children by Jack Kent called "There's no Such Thing as a Dragon" to a group of University of Toronto alumni (most over 65). He explains what it means: Pay attention -- or else. Links * Map of Motivation (Image) (http://jordanbpeterson.com/docs/Podcast_Images/MapOfMotivation.png) * There's No Such Thing As A Dragon (Children's Book) (http://amzn.to/2j54kQ7) * Original YouTube Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REjUkEj1O_0) * Self-Authoring Programs (http://www.selfauthoring.com) * Dr Peterson's Patreon Support Page (http://www.patreon.com/user?u=3019121)

A TVO Big Ideas Lecture from 2012, presented at INPM's Conference on Personal Meaning. It discusses the idea of redemption in Christianity from a psychological perspective, comparing in part to ideas of transformation in psychotherapy. www.selfauthoring.com (http://www.selfauthoring.com), Dr Peterson's Patreon (http://www.patreon.com/user?u=3019121)

A discussion about Religion, Myth, Science and Truth. It was originally recorded by Transliminal in November 2015. Find the original video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Ys4tQPRis&t (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Ys4tQPRis&t) * 0:00 INTRO: PETERSON'S JOURNEY * 9:45 RELIGION: CROWD-CONTROL, NAIVE SCIENCE, OR NEITHER? * 10:08 "They're straw man arguments" * 11:45 Multiple motivational systems, different levels of thinking * 13:32 Fundamental presuppositions * 14:13 Dawkins vs. Christianity: like a "smart 13 year old boy" * 14:44 SCIENTISTS MISREADING RELIGION * 15:52 Different systems of thought, different purposes * 16:00 More than one basic assumption is possible * 17:13 ENTER: DOMINANCE HIERARCHIES * 17:19 What's real is what's persistent across time * 17:33 Dominance hierarchies and lobsters * 17:58 We're evolutionarily adapted to hierarchies * 18:14 HIERARCHIES, RELIGIOUS THINKING, AND SUBJECTIVITY * 18:42 "Being" as not reducible to material reality * 19:12 The road to nihilism and authoritarianism * 19:57 DETERMINING THE TRUTH OF A THEORY * 20:07 Newton or Darwin? Choose one. You can't have both. * 20:20 Nietzsche's "Truth serves life" is a Darwinian idea * 20:38 No idea if our knowledge will help us survive over deep time * 20:50 Answer to: "But look what we've built with it" * 21:20 Crossing Ebola and Smallpox: some science is clearly insane * 22:30 Check your assumptions about reality * 23:45 Darwinism: truth is what enables survival within chaos, period. * 25:03 Dawkins is a Newtonian not a Darwinian * 26:09 Reductionism leaves things out. This has consequences. * 27:27 The pragmatic problem: truth for what? * 28:09 DEEP DARWINISM & RELIGION * 28:15 Religion as evolved knowledge about action * 29:40 American Pragmatist philosophers: the true Darwinians * 30:17 Godel, the stock market and reality * 31:02 TRUTH AS ACTION * 31:44 Truth from the bottom up: lobsters, wolves, humans * 34:27 Ethics: evolved patterns in dominance hierarchies * 39:23 Dogs, chimps, and humans: hierarchy navigators * 44:45 From dominance hierarchies to archetypes: ancient Egypt * 52:36 The soul * 55:50 Jung on Christianity, truth and speech * 59:07 Truth versus the lie * 1:00:52 THE INTELLECT * 1:00:52 The totalitarian intellect * 1:02:43 Have you made thinking your God? * 1:03:38 Attention trumps thinking * 1:04:11 EVOLUTIONARY ROOTS OF WESTERN RELIGION * 1:04:33 Christ as a metahero * 1:04:43 The deep roots of myth * 1:07:00 Chaos monsters * 1:08:55 Myth as behavioural truth * 1:09:37 "Darwin trumps Newton" * 1:10:02 "Dawkins is a rationalist...not a darwinian" * 1:10:07 Darwinian time, Darwinian truth * 1:13:57 Mesopotamian myth as successful behaviour blueprint * 1:17:36 FROM NATURE TO HERO MYTHOLOGY * 1:19:33 Religious stories model being as a field for action * 1:21:13 Our religious task * 1:21:47 Religion as hero mythology * 1:22:30 "You...don't know that you know the story." * 1:23:58 PIAGET AND PRE-RATIONAL MORALITY * 1:25:16 We learn to act before we learn the rules * 1:26:18 Moses the Judge: observer of emergent moral patterns * 1:27:54 "Opiate of the masses" as naive industrial era thinking * 1:28:43 METAPHORICAL THOUGHT * 1:29:11 Hyperactive agency detection module: it goes deeper * 1:31:00 The brain as archetype detection organ

A recording of the 2010 Hancock Lecture and was recorded by TVO. Dr Peterson discusses virtue from a contemporary perspective that both encompasses and extends beyond moral and religious contexts. Through compelling stories and research, Dr Peterson illustrates the necessity of virtue both for the individual and for society at large. Support this Podcast with Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=3019121) Dr Peterson's Online Self-Development Writing Programs: Self Authoring (http://www.selfauthoring.com)

In a lecture recorded by TVO, Professor Jordan Peterson discusses the nature of evil, distinguishing it from tragedy, and presenting his ideas on how both the former and the latter might be most effectively dealt with. Support this Podcast with Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=3019121) Dr Peterson's Online Self-Development Writing Programs: Self Authoring (http://www.selfauthoring.com)

In a public lecture recorded by TVO, Dr Peterson describes the way the world is portrayed in deep stories, such as myths and religious representations. The world in such stories is a place of action, not a place of things, and it has its archetypal characters, positive and negative. Culture is typically represented as paternal, nature as maternal, and the individual as hero and adversary. Culture offers people security, but threatens them with tyranny. Nature offers renewal, but also brings death. The religious path of meaning allows people to negotiate this archetypal landscape. Support this Podcast with Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=3019121) Dr Peterson's Online Self-Development Writing Programs: Self Authoring (http://www.selfauthoring.com)