Jordan Peterson was quoted in a short video clip shown on Facebook, the original audio, show on 12/12/2023, and I took notes on it and will comment on it.
Video: “In order to change your piece of thought, a piece of you has to die. You won’t let it go. Why should you be so daft, not let it go when it is hurting you/ The answer: Better the devil you know than the desert you do not know.”
My response: We all suffer from self-inflicted psychic and moral wounds, hanging onto sinful, self-destructive, obsessive thought patterns that make us miserable, but we are afraid to be free, happy, functioning and going forward, so we stay in our mental rut forever though it is destroying us.
Video: “The piece that was to die may be a lot of you; the piece that replaces it may not appear right away or be functional.
It is like when the Hebrews in Exodus left Egypt. Once they leave the tyranny of Egypt, they end up lost in the desert. That is part of the mystery of the story. It is not a very big desert where it would take 40 years to cross it, about three generations.
In the aftermath of the collapse of a tyrannical belief system, the tyranny disappears. Then you are lost. It is not obvious that being lost is preferable to being in the tyranny. And that’s why people develop nostalgia for the tyranny. It is also why people will stubbornly stick to their beliefs. You stick to a counter-productive pattern of behavior you know is counter-productive and you will not let it go.”
My response: His warning about fear of being liberated from liberty and illusion to grow or even maverize is sound. If you will not let the old self die so that you can be reborn as a greater soul, you will never find meaning, happiness, or deep satisfaction. But it takes real courage, will and commitment to take that initial leap of faith out of the crowd, out of popular roles and expectations to discover God and God’s plan for the genuine you.
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