Psychology in the Modern World

A podcast by Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

Episode 1 Reality and the Sacred

A lecture recorded by TV Ontario

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I want to talk to you today about what I think is a relatively new way of looking at your

experience, but maybe even more broadly than that, a new way of looking at reality itself.

You all come to university, I suppose, to make your conceptions of reality more sophisticated.

And you want to do that because you have to live in the world and the more sophisticated

your conceptions, the less likely you'll encounter tragic or harmful circumstances that you

will be unable to deal with.

It really matters if you know what you're thinking and you know how to think.

For the last 20 years, I would say there's been a revolution in psychology and the revolution

has involved a transformation in the way that we look at the world.

And that's what I want to talk to you about today.

I entitled this talk Reality and the Sacred.

It's a strange title for a talk to modern people because we don't really understand what

the sacred means unless we live within a worldview that's essentially, I wouldn't say archaic,

but at least traditional for modern, free thinking, fundamentally liberal people.

The idea of the sacred is anachronistic or, if not anachronistic, at least incomprehensible.

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