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This week's edition explains why the good mother fails. Dr. Dennis McKenna and I discuss the science behind psychedelics and why the current pharmaceutical approach to long life needs to change. From the archives, I explore how dating preferences have driven human evolution.
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Jordan B. Peterson’s New Book
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Wickedly penned by Dr. Jordan B Peterson, an ABC of Childhood Tragedy unforgettably depicts the doomed and desperate lives of Adella, Bertram, Cynthia and their cohort of catastrophe. Twenty-six dark and witty poems, each a tragic comedy of innocence and vulnerability. Twenty-six hauntingly beautiful portrayals of injustice and suffering, each from the gifted imagination of Juliette Fogra, illustrator of Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life. If A Nightmare before Christmas or Coraline struck you to the heart, if the gothic raillery of Edward Gorey’s Gashlycrumb Tinies seduced you to smile satirically, if the Brothers Grimm were nowhere near grim enough for you, then An ABC of Childhood Tragedy might just be the book you’ve been pining for. Most decidedly NOT for children. Coming to shelves October 25th.
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Why the good mother fails
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Freud’s great discovery was the dark mother.
She’s the witch in Hansel and Gretel. The gingerbread house. Lost children. Too good to be true. It’s like a house of candy.
What lives inside the house of candy? The witch that wants to fatten you up and eat you. It’s a cautionary tale about overprotective parents.
The psychoanalysts said:
“The good mother necessarily fails.”
As your child matures, you have to fail more and more as a mother.
Let’s say your child is thirty. You’re not their mother anymore. I mean, obviously, you are, but the relationship has hit something like quasi-peer status. Not entirely, but the child’s independent and able to stand up on their own two feet and take on the world.
The worst thing you can do for someone anxious is to overprotect them. It makes them worse.
What you do for hyper-anxious people is gradually expose them (with their voluntary consent) to increasingly threatening situations. That cures them.
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Jordan B. Peterson on Marriage
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You get marriage right, everything else will fall into place.
But that’s a bloody hard thing to do.
Drawn from decades of counseling and clinical expertise, my new 3-part series on DailyWire+ will prepare you to better understand, appreciate, and strengthen your relationship with your spouse, and achieve the ultimate goal of marriage: the perfect date that repeats endlessly.
Do you want to enjoy a better union and avoid the pitfalls that are so easy to fall into? You're welcome to watch the first episode of my special, On Marriage, Wednesday evening and join me for a live video Q&A on Thursday, October 27th at 7pm EST/6pm CST.
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"If you do have a lot of excess negative emotion it's really hard on you. Psychophysiologically because you produce a lot of stress hormones and
that makes you old so it's dangerous physically as well." (Share this on Twitter)
"Don't tyrannize yourself instead try to negotiate with yourself." (Share this on Twitter)
"Anger is toxic because it's like you're driving a car you're stepping on the gas and pushing on the brake at the same time because anger tells you to run away and to attack at the same time." (Share this on Twitter)
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Psychedelic Science | Dr. Dennis McKenna | #299 | The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Dr. Dennis McKenna and I discuss the science behind psychedelics, the entities found through the looking glass, the current pharmaceutical approach to long life, and why it needs to change.
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Beyond Order 2022-2023 Tour
For my U.S. audience, my first U.S Beyond Order Tour will start in Anaheim, CA (Just outside Los Angeles). To secure your tickets, click here.
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Dating Preferences Drive Human Evolution | Jordan B. Peterson
Dr. Peterson:
"Plenty of biologists have been assessing sexual selection in the last 30 years but it was under stress to a huge degree for a long long time and it is a game changer because sexual selection among human beings I think is a more important determinant of successful reproduction than natural selection.”
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Thank you for reading,
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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