What happens when a civilisation forgets who it is? Jordan Peterson joins James Orr to explore the metaphysical roots of the West’s decline, the enduring power of the Bible, and why recovering the sacred is now a political imperative.
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Interesting how Peterson moves towards certainty about the external world — Logos and order. Personally I have experienced psychosis with a lot of archetypal material: angels and visions of clouds parting in the night sky over the ocean. I have seen some videos where he talks about shamanism. I am reading Fitche at the moment and clearly the world is ordered but hell also exists. Somehow I feel like philosophy falls short on this where perhaps poetry and mystics describes heaven and hell better? Philosophy, in its classical sense, is built around clarity, reason and order. That makes it brilliant at describing structure (logos, law, being, substance…) but often difficult when it comes to chaos and rupture.