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In this week’s edition, I address why learning about yourself allows you to transform, much like the phoenix, and why we are willing to engage with mythological tales. Then, I talk with author and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali about the subversion of the West, the oppressor/oppressed power narrative, and the importance of Christian ideals. From the archives, I revisit a conversation I had with Brett Cooper about the reasons why short-term relationships are not a good idea.
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Undertake Learning In Order To Transform
Science is about what the world is, whereas myth, drama, dream, and the unconscious are more about how the world should be. They are abstract lessons in how to act, but people are capable of abstraction, of learning, which is a strange thing. You can think of learning as just acquiring more information, but a more accurate way of thinking of it involves discovering what you are doing wrong because of an element of your character, your perception, or a deep habit that is really built into you. It is a neurostructure. It’s alive. But you have to kill it because it is not working properly.
The pain you go through when you are suffering, in part, is the pain of the death of that structure. That could be a large part of you if you really have to endure a massive revision. The person who comes out on the other end might hardly be the same at all. You have to let that whole part of your personality die, and a new part must spring forth. That is what the phoenix is.
The phoenix is the capacity of a person to transform, and the reason we are willing to engage in a story with the phoenix is because it is a myth. It is a metastory about how to act, how to conduct yourself in the world, and how to face what you are afraid of that would otherwise paralyze you. It is about how to let the death of what is insufficient about you occur and how then to wait for rebirth.
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Tomorrow, June 25th, I will be in Mexico City, Mexico, for the final show of my "We Who Wrestle With God" tour.
Click the button below to get your tickets. I hope to see you there.
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In the feature-length documentary “Logos & Literacy,” Jordan explores the Museum of the Bible located in Washington, D.C., alongside the museum’s curators and Biblical scholars. They tour the museum’s exhibits while discussing the Bible’s role in the founding of civilization and how it still influences culture today. Take the tour with Jordan and these experts to delve into the history of the Bible. Stream “Logos & Literacy” exclusively on DailyWire+.
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A Different Way Of Thinking About Sanity
Our Protestant, liberal definition of sanity is wrong. We tend to think of sanity in terms of internal psychological organizations. We think you are sane if your psyche is well-constituted or if you are biologically healthy in relationship to neurological function, as an individual thing: A well-constituted psyche means you are sane. The idea of self-actualization goes along with that. If you are a sane person, you are a sane individual: Sanity is the description of the well-constituted individual. One of the corollaries might be that you could regard any social constraint on the flowering of your individuality as antithetical to your sanity. I would say corrosive criticisms of social institutions tend to presume that axiomatically. I do not think that is the correct notion of sanity.
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God, Marxism, And The Fall Of The West | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | EP 457
In this episode, I sit down with author and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali to discuss the subversion of the West, how the pursuit of truth has become the ownership of it, the corruptive nature of the oppressor/oppressed power narrative, the importance of Christian ideals, and why a new push for restoration is more necessary than ever before.
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The Problem With Short-Term Relationships
Just over a month ago, Brett Cooper joined me for a lengthy conversation covering a multitude of topics, one of which being short-term relationships and the problems associated with them. As I shared with her, I studied anti-social criminal behavior for quite some time, especially in terms of its lifespan development. This particular type of behavior in men also correlates with those interested in having multiple, short-term, early-on sexual partners. (The hallmark of immaturity is hedonic immediate gratification.) Men who are tilted more toward long-term relationships are more likely to be stable and responsible, whereas the personality characteristics of men who prefer one-night stands are associated with Dark Tetrad types. Thus, it is important for women to know that if they allow themselves to be exploited sexually, they are also facilitating Dark Tetrad types.
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Thank you for reading,
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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