longingforrelease
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- Oct 27, 2018
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hey that's really great. I think I might follow one of those links tonight. I really appreciate your taking the time to reply. Much appreciated it!!!!I'm glad you appreciated it! I actually haven't read much of his work but instead listened to a lot of his lectures on youtube. I first heard about him from the joe rogan podcast. The issue with these podcast episodes is that they do spend like an hour discussing the same old "anti-sjw" stuff that got him famous. It's okay to listen too the first time, and this is the center of the controversy he's associated with. But eventually they move on to the core of what Peterson actually studies and discusses. Here's a nice 45 min clip cut from one of these podcasts that shows what I'm talking about. In this clip Peterson lays out his attempt to reconcile religion and science, with myth and reality. He believes religion and myth offer a behavioral truth that is not necessarily the same as scientific truth. This is not exactly a new concept but again Peterson acknowledges this but has a new and powerful way of articulating these ideas.
Here's another video where he analyzes a children's story and how it's filled with this behavioral truth. In brief, the story is about a small dragon that appears in front of a child. The child asks his parents about the dragon but the parents say to just ignore it. The dragon grows bigger. Again the child asks and again he's told to ignore it, and again the dragon grows bigger. Now the dragon is destroying the house and chewing up everything, but the parents continue to ignore the dragon and the dragon continues to grow. Finally they acknowledge the dragon and face it and deal with it, and finally the dragon shrink away again.
The message here is that there are "dragon's" in our own life that we know are wreaking havoc but we don't want to face. The more we continue to ignore the issue, the more it destroys. Only when we face our problem can we stop the chaos and destruction it causes. It's an important message and it's true I believe, and it comes from an ostensibly simple kids book.
So yeah I would look into his YouTube lectures or joe rogan interviews or his own podcast, he's literally got hours of content you can freely listen to whenever you want while doing whatever you want.
peace
