Maps of Meaning 1, 2, & 3

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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🗓️ 27 February 2017

⏱️ 83 minutes

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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.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jordan B. Peterson Podcast. This podcast is an amalgamation of the
0:07.2	first three episodes of Maps of Meaning, recorded by TV Onterian. You can
0:13.2	support these podcasts by donating the amount of your choice to Dr. Peterson's
0:17.1	Patreon account, which can be found by searching Jordan Peterson Patreon or by
0:22.9	finding the link in the description. Dr. Peterson's self-development programs
0:28.4	self-authoring can be found at self-authoring.com. One of the fundamental
0:33.4	thesis of this course is that in modern literature and in literature that
0:41.6	isn't so modern, there's the notion of a human created monster Frankenstein
0:47.6	right, springs to mind, and at an adequate time. I mean Frankenstein was a
0:51.2	fantasy, an unconscious fantasy, a dream in actuality about the potential
0:56.9	dangers of unbridled technological advancement, right? Well, Frankenstein
1:01.7	monsters face us daily. I mean, it's become a constant part of our
1:05.8	existence. Why is that? Well, maybe it's something like this, and this is
1:10.6	certainly a notion that Jung would agree with. If we don't develop a moral
1:18.8	sense as conscious and as elaborated as our technological sense, the fact that
1:24.6	we're capable of becoming increasingly powerful will necessarily do us in.
1:31.0	The bigger your weapons, the smarter you better be to control them. And so maybe
1:38.5	it is something like this, maybe, and this is a strict union notion. Maybe 500
1:43.9	years ago when we started to ratchet up the rate at which we were developing
1:48.9	our technological expertise and left our mythological and religious presuppositions
1:55.2	and conceptions behind as archaic and perhaps as predicated on superstition.
2:01.2	Maybe we need to spend as much time updating them and bringing them into the
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