Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Word on Fire is an

apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization using media both old and

new to share the faith on every continent and to facilitate an encounter with

Christ and His Church. The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring

the transformative power of God's Word where it is most needed. Today we invite

you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the

warmth and light of Christ with each one of us.

Please be with you. Friends, for the past several years now, if you've been a

follower of Word on Fire, you know this. I've been following the work of Jordan

Peterson. He's the Toronto psychologist who's made quite a splash on social

media around the world. A Jungian, Peterson is in many ways the early 21st

century version of Joseph Campbell. Remember him? He was a Jungian also from the

last century who had a major impact on George Lucas and hence on the Star Wars

franchise. If you who hasn't seen the Star Wars movies, you've taken in a lot

of the philosophy really of Joseph Campbell. Well in some ways Peterson is a

updated version of Campbell. Both Campbell and Peterson have delighted in

drawing attention to the archetypal patterns that undergird many of the

myths and legends and stories of the world and help to explain their

perennial and universal appeal. So that's the Jungian influence. Jung was

interested in what he called these archetypes of the collective unconscious,

these patterns of meaning that are very deep within the kind of collective

psychology of the human race and that come up in our myths and rituals and

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