Jacob's Ladder

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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🗓️ 13 November 2017

⏱️ 155 minutes

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Lecture 13 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories lecture series. The Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories starts up after a two month hiatus with the first half of the story of Jacob, the founder of Israel ("those who wrestle with God"), the man who robs his brother of his birthright, is deceived into marrying the wrong woman, and dreams of a stairway to heaven, in the ancient Shamanic tradition. Links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jordan B. Peterson podcast.
0:05.8	You can support these podcasts by donating to Dr. Peterson's Patreon, the link to which
0:10.3	can be found in the description.
0:12.7	Dr. Peterson's self-development programs, self-authoring, can be found at selfauthoring.com.
0:42.6	Thank you very much for showing up again.
0:55.0	That's a really good to see everybody here.
1:02.4	One of the things that I've been realizing as a consequence of going through these
1:08.4	stories is that the degree to which they're about individuals is quite remarkable.
1:16.4	I think that's really telling.
1:19.5	One of the reasons I prefer Dostoevsky to Tolstoy is because Tolstoy is a sociologist.
1:24.7	He's more interested in the relationship between groups of people.
1:29.0	This is an oversimplification because obviously Tolstoy is a great author.
1:33.2	I like Dostoevsky better because he really delves into the souls of individuals.
1:37.4	I think it's remarkable the degree to which all of the stories that we've covered so
1:44.3	far in Genesis are about individuals.
1:48.3	They're quite realistic, which is quite remarkable too.
1:51.3	They're not really romanticized to any great degree because all of the people that are
1:55.6	regarded, let's say, as patriarchal or matriarchal figures in Genesis, have no shortage of ethical.
2:04.1	No shortage of ethical flaws and also no shortage of difficulties in their life.
2:08.0	The difficulties are realistic.
2:10.2	They're major league problems, familial catastrophes and famine and war and revenge and hatred
2:17.4	and all those things.
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