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Maps of Meaning

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Maps of Meaning

By: Jordan B. Peterson
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Jordan B. Peterson's Maps of Meaning is now available for the first time as an audio download!

Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself? From the author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos comes a provocative hypothesis that explores the connection between what modern neuropsychology tells us about the brain and what rituals, myths, and religious stories have long narrated. A cutting-edge work that brings together neuropsychology, cognitive science, and Freudian and Jungian approaches to mythology and narrative, Maps of Meaning presents a rich theory that makes the wisdom and meaning of myth accessible to the critical modern mind.

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I think this is one of those books that you have to come back to in life as there's some much to take in , I must say what I wouldn't do for that man's vocabulary I spent a lot of time with the dictionary so far great non the less

Interesting but hard to follow and intense

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This book is life changing in its scope and spiritual depth. It could potentially change humanity for the better. As someone who was somewhat lost on the path of faith it has refreshed and refocused ideas in a new light. To atheists it should be of particular interest. Any one who cares about how to avoid malevolence and find meaning in there life should read this book. Thank your Jordan for this book and the lessons within it.

Many answers to the problems of life are presented hear

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As an amateur philosopher, I have had occasion to read Nietzsche and Kirkegaard, and have long pondered the problem of value, and the problem of evil. For all my study, I have never come across quite so comprehensive a response to these problems, as I found in this book (also nicely summarized in chapters 8, 9 and 10 of Petersons new book). Though his answer is not definitive, it is thorough and authoritative, covering areas of study as diverse as clinical psychology, folk wisdom, analytical and continental philosophy, dream analysis, neuropsychology, anthropology, and of course religion. It took me nearly two months to finish this book, and it was well worth the slog. I have a dramatically deeper appreciation for the mytho-poetic view of life, an improved awareness of the significance of symbolic interpretation of phenomenal experience, and even a new way to look at Jamesian Pragmatism. If Catholic priests and lay-teachers were as adept at explaining the significance of Catholic doctrine and myth, as Peterson is of explication of the Augustinian view, I might still be a Catholic (albeit, agnostic). If you can summon the will to read this book, please do yourself and the world a favor, and do it.

Insightful to the point of prophetic

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Nothing i can say will do it justice. will change the way you view the world.

would definitely recommend

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Needed to concentrate and stop from time to time to understand the deep meaning of this ideas. Strongly recommended.

Important during this time

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loved the book. Have bought the paper version to read and improve comprehension. two words.

rewarding and hard in equal measure.

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Was quite hard to follow the ideas most of the time, quite academic language for my taste. It could be explained simpler

Overcomplicated

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Not the easiest of listens, you have to concentrate, but the book is stuffed, I would say, with deep knowledge, insight and wisdom into many different and interesting aspects of how we came to operate as we do in this world, as only Peterson does it. Helps that it is read by the author. Overall it feels like an important book, and I would recommend it to anyone who is prepared to take the time, and remain open-minded to new ways of appreciating old stories and ideas. Excellent.

Unique and Inspiring.

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Peterson writes from a place of personal confusion to personal enlightenment. A tour de force.

fascinating, convincing and cohesive

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Useful for those who are tired of the chaos and want some order in their life

Brilliant

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