Maps Of Meaning--Jordan Peterson

 In his introduction to Jordan Peterson book, 12 RULES FOR LIFE AN ANTIDOTE TO CHAOS,  the writer of the foreword for the book, Dr. Norman Doidge, on Page xiii, notes how this book by Peterson grew out of Peterson's first book: "In Jordan's first and only book before this one, Maps of Meaning, he shares his profound insights into universal themes of world mythology, and explains how all cultures have created stories to help us grapple with, and ultimately map, the chaos into which we are thrown at birth; this chaos is everything that is unknown to us, and any unexplored territory that we must traverse, be it in the world outside or the psyche within."

Peterson is keenly aware that humans require meaning to live; indeed, we will die, turn sick, corrupt or go mad without it. Is this a religious thirst quenchable only by searching for meaning in a purpose and loving relationship with God? That is how I interpret the innate thirst for meaning to make sense of existence, of being thrown into the world, of suffering, encountering malice, hunger, loneliness, starvation, privation and cold.