"You must understand. The leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. The October Revolution was not what you call in America the "Russian Revolution." It was an invasion and conquest over the Russian people. More of my countrymen suffered horrific crimes at their bloodstained hands than any people or nation ever suffered in the entirety of human history. It cannot be understated. Bolshevism was the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant of this reality is proof that the global media itself is in the hands of the perpetrators." Solzhenitsynn

Part 1: A Message to Millenials: How to Change the World -- Properly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbOeO_frzvg&t

Young people want, rightly, to change the world. But how might this be properly done? Dr Jonathan Haidt recently contrasted Truth University with Social Justice University. Social Justice U has as its advantage the call to social transformation. In this podcast, I outline why Truth is the proper route to societal improvement -- and why that starts with the individual.

Part 2: A New Years Message to the World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnEFt20qe0o&t

A message for those who are looking forward to 2017. Thank you to all of those who have supported my efforts in the recent (and not so recent past).

Links

Here is the text of the letter, on my blog:
http://jordanbpeterson.com/2016/12/new-years-letter/
Link to Jonathan Haidt’s article on Truth U vs Social Justice U: http://heterodoxacademy.org/2016/10/21/one-telos-truth-or-social-justice/
Link to paper on Future Authoring: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/articles/palcomms201514
Self Authoring Programs: https://www.selfauthoring.com/
Dr Peterson's Patreon Support Page: https://www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson
Dr Peterson's Website: http://jordanbpeterson.com/
Podcast Page: http://jordanbpeterson.com/jordan-b-peterson-podcast/
Reading List: http://jordanbpeterson.com/2017/03/great-books/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson

15 - How To Change The World

Lecture 4 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories lecture series. I turned my attention in this lecture to the older of the two creation accounts in Genesis: the story of Adam and Eve. In its few short paragraphs, it covers:

1. the emergence of human self-consciousness;
2. mankind's attendant realization of vulnerability, mortality, and death;
3. the origin of the capacity for willful evil, as the ability to exploit that newly-realized vulnerability;
4. the emergence of shame as a consequence of that realization;
5. the shrinking from divine destiny that occurred when shame emerged; and
6. the beginning of true history, with the self-conscious toil that life in history entails.

Impossible. Amazing. Breathtaking.

The only story that can perhaps match it in terms of impact per sentence is that of Cain and Abel, which we discuss in the next lecture: number five in this twelve part series.

22 - Adam And Eve - Self Consciousness, Evil, And Death

Life at the individual and the societal level is punctuated by crisis and catastrophe. This stark truth finds its narrative representation in the widely-distributed universal motif of the flood. Mircea Eliade, the great Romanian historian of religion, noted that flood stories identify two reasons for the destruction: (1) the tendency of complex things to fall apart of their own accord; (2) the proclivity of human beings to speed up that process by sinning, or missing the mark (by engaging in self-evident corruption, or by failing to attend to what cries out for attention). The Genesis story clearly states that Noah and his family are to be spared from impending disaster because Noah “walks with God,” as Adam did before the Fall. In this lecture, the 7th in the series, I intermingle the story of Noah and his survival with elements of the Sermon on the Mount, making the effort to explain to a modern audience why careful moral attitude and behavior comprises the best defense against “the righteous anger of God.”

Links

Support this Podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson

Self Authoring: https://selfauthoring.com/

Jordan Peterson Website: https://jordanbpeterson.com/

Reading List: https://jordanbpeterson.com/2017/03/great-books/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson

25 - Walking With God - Noah And The Flood

Lecture 10 in the Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series. 

The Abrahamic adventures continue with this, the tenth lecture in my 12-part initial Biblical lecture series. Abraham's life is presented as a series of encapsulated narratives, punctuated by sacrifice, and the rekindling of his covenant with God. This seems to reflect the pattern of human life: the journey towards a goal, or destination, and the completion of a stage or epoch of life, followed by the necessity of revelation and reconsideration of identity, prior to the next step forward. Abraham, for his part, makes the sacrifices necessary to continue to walk with God, or before God (as the terminology in this section has it). It is this decision that allows him to transcend the vicissitudes of life, and to take his role as the father of nations.

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Try the Self Authoring Suite: selfauthoring.com

28 - Abraham - Father Of Nations

Lecture 11 in the Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series. 

Often interpreted as an injunction against homosexuality (particularly by those simultaneously claiming identity as Christians and opposed to that orientation), the stories of the angels who visit Abraham, bless him, and then rain destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah are more truly a warning against mistreatment of the stranger and impulsive, dysregulated, sybaritic conduct.

Abraham opens his heart and hearth to the stranger. The denizens of Lot’s soon-to-be lost cities threaten them with violent rape. God exacts a terrible retribution. The warning is clear.

Support this Podcast on Patreon: patreon.com/jordanbpeterson
Try the Self Authoring Suite: selfauthoring.com

29 - Sodom And Gamorrah

Lecture 9 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series. 

In this lecture, I tell the story of Abraham, who heeds the call of God to leave what was familiar behind and to journey into unknown lands. The man portrayed in the Bible as the father of nations moves forward into the world. He encounters the worst of nature (famine), society (the tyranny of Egypt) and the envy of the powerful, who desire his wife. There is nothing easy about Abraham's life. Instead, he is portrayed both as a real man, with serious problems, and a hero, who overcomes tremendous obstacles to establish himself in the world.
His covenant with God is an Ark. His decision to aim at the highest good he can conceptualize places an aura of magic around the events of his life, despite their harshness. He's a model for life in the world as it is, not as we wish it would be.

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Try the Self Authoring Suite: selfauthoring.com

27 - The Call To Abraham

Lecture 12 in the Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series. In this, the final lecture of the Summer 2017 12-part series The Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories, we encounter, first, Hagar's banishment to the desert with Ishmael and then the demand made by God to Abraham for the sacrifice of Isaac.

To sacrifice now is to gain later: perhaps the greatest of human discoveries. What, then, should best be sacrificed? And what might be the greatest gain? There are few eternal questions more profound and difficult.
In this lecture, I read an excerpt from Chapter 7 of my new book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, now available for pre-order at http://amzn.to/2wkb7MY (Amazon.ca) and http://amzn.to/2x1hfXF (Amazon.com)
I am currently making arrangements to continue this series with a monthly lecture. That will start in September at a date and time yet to be announced.

30 - The Great Sacrifice - Abraham And Isaac

Lecture 14 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories lecture series. This lecture closes 2017, and the book of Genesis. In it, I present the story of Joseph who, as the wearer of the coat of many colors, is profoundly adaptable, courageous, adaptable, merciful and just. Even in slavery -- even in prison -- he comes out triumphant, because of the strength of his character and his wisdom. Betrayed by his brothers, he acts to strengthen his family; unjustly accused by the Pharaoh's wife, he maintains his faith.

My new book, 12 RULES FOR LIFE: AN ANTIDOTE TO CHAOS now available and discounted at:

Amazon UK: Allen Lane/Penguin: http://amzn.to/2AgWCsj

Amazon USA: http://amzn.to/2yvJf9L

Amazon Canada: http://amzn.to/2g2K7uQ

You can download a printable gift certificate (with a pre-print of the introduction) if you want to give to the book to someone as a Christmas gift: http://bit.ly/2CSWK1Y

Additional relevant links:

Dr. Jordan B Peterson Website: http://jordanbpeterson.com/
Self Authoring Suite: http://selfauthoring.com/
Understand Myself personality test: http://understandmyself.com/
Podcast: https://jordanbpeterson.com/jordan-b-peterson-podcast/
Reading List: https://jordanbpeterson.com/2017/10/great-books/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson

36  - Jacob And The Coat Of Many Colors

From Dr. Peterson's appearance on Conversations with Richard Fidler from March 14th, 2018. Richard Fidler is an Australian ABC radio presenter, and writer, best known for his hour-long interview program, Conversations with Richard Fidler. The program is ABC Radio's most popular podcast, downloaded more than 3 million times per month. It features local and international guests from all walks of life, engaging in in-depth interviews.

Original Program: http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/

Original Episode: http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/conversations-jordan-peterson/9525644

43 - Jordan Peterson's Rules for Life With Richard Fidler

I came across Dr. Warren Farrell's work a few years ago, when I read Why Men Earn More(https://amzn.to/2HX3Epj), a careful study of the many reasons for the existence of the "gender pay gap," attributed by ideologues of the identity-politics persuasion to systemic patriarchal prejudice and oppression. Farrell has recently published another book, The Boy Crisis (https://amzn.to/2wnApuy) with Dr. John Gray. We spent an intense 90 minutes discussing the crucial role played by fathers in child development, paying particular attention to play and delay of gratification. Dr. Farrell has been a target of radical left activists, who object to the conflict between his careful analysis and their unidimensional ideology. You can see an example of this here, at the University of Toronto: https://bit.ly/1eS5yHe

Links

Why Men Earn More: https://amzn.to/2HX3Epj
The Boy Crisis: https://amzn.to/2wnApuy
My new book: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-life/
Audiobook now available for Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief: jordanbpeterson.com/maps-of-meaning/
Dr Jordan B Peterson Website: jordanbpeterson.com/
Self Authoring Suite: selfauthoring.com/
Understand Myself personality test: understandmyself.com/
Podcast: jordanbpeterson.com/jordan-b-peterson-podcast/
Reading List: jordanbpeterson.com/reading-list/great-books/
Twitter: twitter.com/jordanbpeterson
Patreon: www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson

47 - Warren Farrell - The Absolute Necessity of Fathers

Happy New Year. This is the first of this year's Q and A's. I am going to answer audience questions, as usual, as well as discussing my next book, my impending departure from Patreon, and my upcoming tour to Switzerland, California, Australia and New Zealand.

If you were a Patreon subscriber and wish to continue with your support, then you can switch to http://bit.ly/2AIjkLe

The 50% discount coupon for the Future Authoring program (selfauthoring.com) can be used at http://bit.ly/2TKwf6H

Use coupon code NY2019

See you in a month.

[Announcements]
[1] 0:01:14 – Leaving Patreon in protest of recent banning of Carl Benjamin from the platform
[2] 0:03:24 – Working on new book, tentatively titled: “Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life”. List of rules included (see below). Estimated publication in Jan 2020. 
[3] 0:06:00 – Upcoming locations for 12 Rules Tour: Zurich, Australia, New Zealand
[4] 0:06:53 – Podcast release coming up with General Stanley McChrystal on his new book “Leaders: Myth and Reality”
[5] 0:07:30 – Recap of 2018, 50% discount on Future Authoring program 
0:12:30 – (Q1) Can you talk about your own experiences / methods for “shadow integration”?
0:25:28 – (Q2) How can I help my parents to sort themselves out? How can I talk about the resentment of my childhood in a way that benefits them instead of giving them guilt?
0:39:47 – (Q3) It took me 7 months, but I completed the Self Authoring Suite. I'm still not motivated to do anything and waste all of my time. What do I do?
0:47:31 – (Q4) I’m consumed by envy. I can hardly stand to read, watch, or listen to anyone more successful than myself. How am I aiming wrong?
0:55:38 – (Q5) How would you advise a person who has the courage to defy the crowd but doesn’t have the verbal skills to debate in real time?
1:01:01 – (Q6) The Tao Te Ching speaks of acting naturally. How is one to change and better their condition without unnaturally manipulating their world? 
1:07:02 – Q&A disrupted by a puppy rolling a bone upstairs   ^_^
1:10:34 – (Q7) I agree we don’t live in a tyrannical patriarchy. Can you provide a better explanation for the iniquities women faced, especially the delay in voting rights?
1:17:45 – (Q8) You have talked about earning your knowledge. How do you define this? When is it okay to debate ideas like yours if they are not your own?
1:23:45– (Q9) Have you ever considered having a debate with Slavoj Zizek? *
1:24:59– (Q10) How do you maintain a stable identity when you are plagued by bouts of depression and anxiety? 
1:33:51– (Q11) How are you always so consistently composed and confident?
1:40:22 – (Q12) How do you manage to read so much?
1:45:35 – (Q13) There are many drug-addicted and homeless people in my city, and it keeps getting worse. How do you help people who don’t want to be helped?
1:48:43 – (Q14) How do I stop ruminating? These thoughts are recurring and relate to any and every embarrassing moment I’ve had (I’m a 76-year-old woman)
1:51:16 – (Q15) What’s the best method to retain what you read and be able to use it in conversation?
1:53:54 – (Q16) I just found out that’s I’m having a girl. How can I raise her to think for herself and not fall into the modes of thinking proposed by popular culture?

Additional relevant links:

Website: http://jordanbpeterson.com/
12 Rules for Life Tour: Dates, Cities and Venues: http://jordanbpeterson.com/events/
Books: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: http://jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-life
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief: http://jordanbpeterson.com/maps-of-meaning
Blog: http://jordanbpeterson.com/blog/
Podcast: http://jordanbpeterson.com/jordan-b-peterson-podcast/
Reading List: http://jordanbpeterson.com/great-books/
Self Authoring Suite: http://selfauthoring.com/
Understand Myself personality test: http://understandmyself.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jordan.b.peterson
Support this channel: http://www.jordanbpeterson.com/donate

61 - January Q & A

Professor of Psychology at UofT, Lecturer, YouTube Personality, Author of Maps of Meaning & 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

43 - Jordan Peterson's Rules for Life With Richard Fidler

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