Cain and Abel: The Hostile Brothers

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Society & Culture, Science, Education

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🗓️ 4 July 2017

⏱️ 153 minutes

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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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jordan B. Peterson Podcast.
0:04.3	You can support these podcasts by donating to Dr. Peterson's Patreon account, the link
0:08.6	to which can be found in the description.
0:12.1	Dr. Peterson's self-development programs, self-authoring, can be found at selfauthoring.com.
0:18.6	This is episode 23.
0:20.6	This podcast episode is the fifth installment of Dr. Peterson's psychological significance
0:24.7	of the biblical stories lecture series.
0:27.6	This episode focuses on Canaan Abel and is entitled Canaan Abel, The Hostile Brothers.
0:34.0	Dr. Peterson will be performing the remainder of the lecture series at the Isabel Bader
0:38.5	Theatre in Toronto.
0:40.8	Tickets can be found at JordanB. Peterson.com slash Bible Hyphen series or by finding the
0:46.1	link in the description.
1:03.2	So I'm going to read you something.
1:04.2	I get a lot of mail and I don't know where I got this.
1:08.1	I've been a lot of different places in the last week and this showed up at one of them
1:14.3	and I'm going to read it to you.
1:15.7	I have no idea what to make of it.
1:21.5	It's written in a female hand so that's about all I can tell but there's no address or
1:26.6	name on it.
1:28.9	This isn't a question but a comment or more accurately perhaps a message.
1:35.7	I spent this past weekend in an ayahuasca ceremony which for those of you who don't know is
1:42.3	a South American visionary plant medicine.
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