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This is episode 24.

This podcast episode is the sixth installment of Dr. Jordan B. Peterson's psychological

significance of the biblical story's lecture series.

This episode focuses on Noah and the Ark and is entitled The Psychology of the Flood.

Dr. Peterson will be performing the remainder of the lecture series at the Isabel Bader

Theatre in Toronto.

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So I'm going to launch right into it.

I like this story as well.

This is the story of Noah and the Flood and then the Tower of Babel, which I think are

juxtaposed very interestingly.

The Tower of Babel is one of those stories like Canaan Abel that's only a few lines long.

It's like a fragment in some sense, although the story of Noah is quite a well-developed narrative.

Like the other stories that we've covered, it is relevant at multiple levels of analysis

simultaneously.

And so what I'm going to do to begin with is to start with some background information.

So some psychological background information so that the story makes sense.

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