When I turned 30 I began to tell a story to myself and it became chapters of a novel, I have never quite finished. In it was a road map to my spiritual, emotional, psychological, and intellectual growth this lifetime. It truly had prophecies (predictions?) in it on the events of my life - chapters I wrote in the late 1970s and early 1980s are very similar to what has happened to me in my later life.. It amazes me, sometimes, how clear a story of my life it really is... oh, it is set on an imaginary world, characters, setting, culture.... but it shows me what my challenges are, who and what are the foes, what i can do to grow wiser.. where the truth of my soul, really lies. It holds the truth of who and what I really am. I believe that my soul is telling it's story (history) to me, the ego. I believe in reincarnation and consider myself a Christian Gnostic. It is telling me how to proceed to more growth on all levels. I think we all have an inner story, the soul's story, if we seriously and carefully open our inner ears to hear the voice, within, we can see our lives as full of meaning and purpose.

10+ years I listen to JP & I'm most impressed of his modesty of still learning from others! Being such a great intellectual person could easily say I know more & that's it, but he expands his perception constantly through others thus proving to all of us our unlimited potential of self growth & "telling" us we can always grow our self worth as a result~ The perfect example of teaching others by example! Thank you JB for being just you!!

If God is all knowing, then at every moment of our day we burden God with our story. So please, tell God a good tale of a hero who overcomes all the challenges thrown their way and manages to improve themselves and the world. ❤

I’ve just finished a video about the importance of stories, and how they shape us and our perceptions, for my own channel.. So this is a very timely upload from yourself, Dr Peterson. This has helped to shed further light on my understanding of this topic, thank you!

One of the things I find fascinating and which I'm always trying to work out is this idea of predictive processing -- I'm an intuitive person with a better forecasting and situation-reading ability than most and I do believe that part of this comes from absorbing many, many stories and fairytales from a young age. Absorbing archetypes and archetypal constructs really does help us navigate our lives better, I'm convinced.

I could listen to Jordon Peterson all day.

Much love to You and Your family ! So many people's lives are better thanks to Your wisdom and goodness.

Just bought tickets to Norfolk on June 3rd! Can’t wait! 🌚☄️❤️💫

Neville Goddard says to sin is to miss the mark, meaning not achieving your goals. Staying on your own path is a challenge in this age of technology ❤

I am a physicist and I will explain why our scientific knowledge refutes the idea that consciousness is generated by the brain and that the origin of our mental experiences is physical/biological . My argument proves that the fragmentary structure of brain processes implies that brain processes are not a sufficient condition for the existence of consciousness, which existence implies the existence in us of an indivisible unphysical element, which is usually called soul or spirit (in my youtube channel you can find a video with more detailed explanations). I also argue that all emergent properties are subjective cognitive contructs used to approximately describe underlying physical processes, and that these descriptions refer only to mind-dependent entities. Consciousness, being implied by these cognitive contructs, cannot itself be an emergent property. Preliminary considerations: the concept of set refers to something that has an intrinsically conceptual and subjective nature and implies the arbitrary choice of determining which elements are to be included in the set; what exists objectively are only the single elements. In fact, when we define a set, it is like drawing an imaginary line that separates some elements from all the other elements; obviously this imaginary line does not exist physically, independently of our mind, and therefore any set is just an abstract idea, a cognitive construct and not a physical entity and so are all its properties. Similar considerations can be made for a sequence of elementary processes; sequence is a subjective and abstract concept. Mental experience is a precondition for the existence of subjectivity/arbitrariness and cognitive constructs, therefore mental experience cannot itself be a cognitive construct; obviously we can conceive the concept of consciousness, but the concept of consciousness is not actual consciousness. (With the word consciousness I do not refer to self-awareness, but to the property of being conscious= having a mental experiences such as sensations, emotions, thoughts, memories and even dreams). From the above considerations it follows that only indivisible elements may exist objectively and independently of consciousness, and consequently the only logically coherent and significant statement is that consciousness exists as a property of an indivisible element. Furthermore, this indivisible entity must interact globally with brain processes because we know that there is a correlation between brain processes and consciousness. This indivisible entity is not physical, since according to the laws of physics, there is no physical entity with such properties; therefore this indivisible entity can be identified with what is traditionally called soul or spirit. The soul is the missing element that interprets globally the distinct elementary physical processes occurring at separate points in the brain as a unified mental experience. Some clarifications. The brain doesn't objectively and physically exist as a mind-independent entity since we create the concept of the brain by separating an arbitrarily chosen group of quantum particles from everything else. This separation is not done on the basis of the laws of physics, but using addictional subjective criteria, independent of the laws of physics; actually there is a continuous exchange of molecules with the blood and when and how such molecules start and stop being part of the brain is decided arbitrarily. Brain processes consist of many parallel sequences of ordinary elementary physical processes occurring at separate points. There is no direct connection between the separate points in the brain and such connections are just a subjective abstractions used to approximately describe sequences of many distinct physical processes. Indeed, considering consciousness as a property of an entire sequence of elementary processes implies the arbitrary definition of the entire sequence; the entire sequence as a whole (and therefore every function/property/capacity attributed to the brain) is a subjective abstraction that does not refer to any mind-independendent reality. Physicalism/naturalism is based on the belief that consciousness is an emergent property of the brain. However, an emergent property is defined as a property that is possessed by a set of elements that its individual components do not possess; my arguments prove that this definition implies that emergent properties are only subjective cognitive constructs and therefore, consciousness cannot be an emergent property. Actually, all the alleged emergent properties are just simplified and approximate descriptions or subjective/arbitrary classifications of underlying physical processes or properties, which are described directly by the fundamental laws of physics alone, without involving any emergent properties (arbitrariness/subjectivity is involved when more than one option is possible; in this case, more than one possible description). An approximate description is only an abstract idea, and no actual entity exists per se corresponding to that approximate description, simply because an actual entity is exactly what it is and not an approximation of itself. What physically exists are the underlying physical processes. Emergence is nothing more than a cognitive construct that is applied to physical phenomena, and cognition itself can only come from a mind; thus emergence can never explain mental experience as, by itself, it implies mental experience. My approach is scientific and is based on our scientific knowledge of the physical processes that occur in the brain; my arguments prove that such scientific knowledge excludes the possibility that the physical processes that occur in the brain could be a sufficient condition for the existence of consciousness. Marco Biagini

Your insightful wisdom is admirable, thank you for helping me learn more about me and the world outside.

Close eyes .. meditation... silence100 ...... . , ... 20 minutes+ + hours good to see ❤❤

Very much looking forward to this, dearest Dr. Peterson. I’m a novelist and so I think about story all day long and dream about it at night. You taught me that story matters in a time in my life when I had become discouraged in my work. I now have a complete manuscript under consideration by a literary agent and I don’t think I would have got here if not from learning from you. Love you dearly. Ruth Anne ❤

Jordan, I wish you are one of my agents of transformation, which i need right now. ❤

Thanks for sharing. I feel like this is a very insightful way to view the world. The idea is in a nascent stage but the direction seems promising. Kind of reminds me of a heros journey condensed into its essential features.

So, every experience is, FIRST, our reaction to the ongoing inner story we create about our circumstance, whether it aligns with reality or not, THEN, our willingness and capacity to adapt the inner story to reality. Makes complete sense after this is pointed out.

The ability to think about our thinking

Don’t forget Ingo Swan’s claims that humans have as many as 27-30 senses,rather than just the 5 we are trained to acknowledge. Reality can be pretty overwhelming, if you think about it.

Stories, good stories, are the structural building blocks of what shapes our reality, manifested through consciousness 🤔

Saint Jordan Peterson

Now, as in the "present", it is literally a "pre-sent" moment from our perspective. What is interesting, is that our brain creates a story that our mind uses to make decisions about the future(the actual now) and not the pre-sent moment we exist in. Our mind exists slightly ahead of our brain in the predicted moment of now and I believe this to be the beginning of the story you are discussing.

In my opinion as a 16 year old i dont think it 100 % matters if a story is real mentally im sure there are reasons but i think the impact it has matters take for example parables in the bible, not all of them are real I HAVE HEARD IDK but they still had lots of positive impact

Paradoxically, the story of conciousness has attempted to explain its genesis backwards. Its authors, our greatest physicists who fail to recognise that even a quantum explanation is but an abacus to the complexity of a Gods creation. Conciousness, profoundly significant and yet merely as minor as a childs lego block! The greatest story never told.

Excellent video. I watched it from start to finish.

We attended the Jordan Peterson event in Sugar Land TX last night, but it took an hour to park and so we missed the whole talk and only caught some of the Q&A 😢

I am learning to capture my thoughts and in doing so change my story. Just because I "think" a thing does not mean it is true. I want my story to be true, and as truth be pleasing to God.

The theme of reality as a story is a central theme in the recent Wes Anderson film, Asteroid City. I'd be very interested in hearing Dr. Peterson talk about this movie.

Hi Dr. Peterson, I think you would be interested in the late Charles Travis on perception. I highly recommend Collins J. & Dobler T. The Philosophy of Charles Travis: Language, Thought and Perception. Personally, I think consciousness is the gestalt effect of the totality of cognitive processes. Have a great day 🙂

Say Mr. Jordan, I appreciated your discussion this evening in Sugarland! It was great to see your face in person! Great show, other than my fellow Texans not being able to sit still and be quiet for long periods of time. Sorry bout that! But always remember, if your country doesn’t want you, the country of Texas is ready to welcome you with open arms! 😂

I’ve spent a lot of time listening to Jordan Peterson saying he spent a lot of time thinking about various subjects.

Very good. Love me some JP on the tail end of a mushroom high. Sweet dreams y’all

Dr. Peterson I was blessed to watch your we who wrestle with God lecture in OKC. I hope that you saw my question after the lecture if not I will be reposting this a few times as to possibly have you see it hopefully I'm not annoying. The question I would like to hear answered is why is the Logos of the Universe on a Cross, why would he promise us anything, and do the promises he made apply to you? I have my own thoughts on it but your perspective is so Brilliant that I think that it would do the world some good or at least my consens. Thank you if you ever read this and thank you more if you ever answer my question. Thank you!

Where can I see this entire interview, please?

Can't wait for this! The User Illusion is an amazing book!

Jordan, May I suggest you do a podcast with Fr Chad Ripperger. There’s a lot of common ground you can discuss.

Does it or is it just that we use language to think, if we didnt think with words would it be a story or a motion picture?

I’m curious to know if you have ever read A Course In Miracles and what your thoughts might be.

This feels like its gon be a great episode, cant wait

Interesting, I do believe that there is an unconscious meta process that oversees our consciousness. It holds all the information about our reality, only alowing us to know what is pertinent to our existence. It gives us experiences like a sense of time and I am open to the theory that it could be external to our bodies.

Its the mind/flesh that creates the story which is the fall. We are in an endless loop of thinking and trying to aquire knowledge. It's when you stop thinking through prayer and meditation and connect with God you see that we are the loving awareness. We don't label so our love is unconditioned, like God's.

@JordanBPeterson - I'm not sure where to provide my feedback regarding your most recent tour in TX. Since this vlog is related to the lecture that I attended a few days ago, "Those of us who wrestle with God," at Dickies Arena... so, I place it here... You was engaged with the audience and cares about your message and all of us. You put a lot of thoughts into what you want to cover and like the narrative to lead people on a mental journey. Your focus for the first 50 minutes was related to self & relationship topics that many parents are already aware of. I was surprised at how much time you took to lay the foundation for only one story about the Bible (Moses & the Burning Bush). You did cover a brief explanation of Abraham during the Q&A, but that was about it. 80% of the lecture seemed to be explaining how our lives are stories & then 10% was tying those stories into how they have been affected by the French Intellectuals of the 1960s, who were all Marxist. From there, you drew the parallels to our divisive society and that our divergence from God, faith & religion is what exacerbates our situation in this world. The other 10% of the show was the Q&A and the 2 religious stories. All in all, it was not your best material. I went to your lecture last year, and the content was on a different level. I would give this lecture a 3.7 out of 5. Too much foundation laying and the connections between concepts were strained and a bit clumsy. Will go again next year. Hoping it gets back to brilliance! Thank you, Dr. Peterson!

We are constantly creating Order out of Chaos, moment by moment by moment. It sometimes seems to me that Fear creeps in when the surrounding chaos exceeds or defies our sensemaking abilities. Which can happen with increasing regularity in todays incredibly complex techno-world.

Consciousness is the equals sign between the mathematical wave function and the manifestation of reality. The interaction causes Time to be created backwards and forwards from Now.

Is there a way not to allow some things to appear in our conciousness?

I've always considered conscious activity to be analogous to a hardware interupt.

"All the world's a stage. The men and women, merely players." Shakespeare said that. When Dr. Peterson has young people map out what they want in life, that's like a draft of a story. My brother had a bad marriage. I told him, "But you were the hero in your life. Your kids turned out well, thanks to your sacrifice." He liked that.

For literal examples of consciousness mapping reality as a story: Homer, Virgil, Dante, Langland, Milton, Blake...come to think of it any epic/prophetic poetry (specifically poetry) in any culture.

Yes, each word is a pointer from a direct conscious thought we share to express reality. ( selection thought process) Our experiences become our personalized story. Our thoughts become words for actions that go into the process of our life’s story we create, write, and experience through living. Our choices from free will determines our fate. One’s perception contributes to outcomes because if your perception is warped and misdirected in falsehoods and fantasy, you live in deception filled with lies limiting growth and progress. The average person only recalls 5% of what is heard, 10% of visual, but 85% of what’s observed. Educational learned behaviors are different from intelligence and actual life experiences, just like talking and doing, hearing and listening, looking v actually observing and learning v experiences. Books teach us, life experiences molds us and introduces us to ourselves. Thank you Jordan. ✝️🙏🏻❤️ I missed you during your Sugarland lecture. Perhaps next time. Ciao 🙋🏻‍♀️

Would love to see you do a interview with Bishop Maro mari, once he recovers after being stabbed the other day in Australia

Jordan your a champion to us and certainly to me, thank you. Your continued existence gives me strength

I disagree that the consciousness we experience is a “hallucination” because that implies that there is no correspondence between our conscious experiences and reality. I would prefer the term “perception” to link the experience with reality. When we see a green leaf, there is a connection between that perception and the real existence of matter reflecting a particular wavelength of light.

Doctor Peterson: once, in an artificially induced series of insights, I thought that everything is "a story" , that we are all characters. Also our goal in life would be " be example", either to our children as to other people. That seems exactly what you are saying. (I also had the insight that everything that has happened or will happened is happening at the same time, that our current beings are like a radio tuned to a certain station, but "all radios" are being broadcasted at the same time, which also related to expansion and contraction, or vibrance, off everything in an infinite speed - which would make the Big Bang just the start of the current visible cycle for us humans, but certainly not the absolute start of everything - bc after all, time would be a loop.

I think this must be the most important understanding Jordan has communicated . XX

Cultivate edifying energy/feelings to cultivate edifying ideas. Cultivate edifying ideas to cultivate an edifying narrative.

Heard you talk about this on your tour!

Jordan if you were going to pick a faction to play in Warhammer 40k which would it be?

Curious to know how that would apply to dreaming, the nothing that is there as the dark background is actually something in a feedback loop with you.

Sounds like everything that we already know as being important in this world for all living creatures which is, 'Teaching & Learning', just put in a different way, a different 'Modus Operandi'.

I was in a heavy discussion about the nature of God one time, like what is ''I am that i am''. Anyway i started to pass out and as that was happening a little voice in the back of my head said. ''I'm the one who powders your wigs.'' So that was or may have been an encounter with God but he seems to be coming from the 17th century. What did it mean, why did people powder wigs ?

Great Insights...🔥

Friends do the same as the light; they offer contradiction to the darkness. The epidemic of loneliness and isolation (with the accompanying uptick in narcissism) is allowing the darkness to engulf many good people

I finally read '12 rules for life ' and wow, it was really, really good! Any Peterson fans that haven't, need to! Way back in highschool, my favorite class was literature and now that door has been rediscovered! Cannot wait for "We who wrestle with God'!!

Love it, I took this away - 'we live in a model we have created & when the model doesn't fit with observation we change the model'. I would add that we do much of the remodeling when asleep.

Specifying a point seems to me to be one of the few acts of free will we have access to.

I love you Mr. Peterson, you're advice and ideas have single handedly made a world of difference in my life. Thank you sir. Ill pay the universe back by being a better man from this moment forward. Doveƙ

"The world as we know it came about due to a mistake." --Gospel of Philip

Bees, tools & words, obstacles… thanks for saying sharing, if our indigenous ancestors sat around contemplating they’d have starved & we wouldn’t be here, why so complex, the earth took care of the complexities for us, no contradiction, fact not fiction, design life as you will, we’ve turned the corner & now know reality is a fact not a story of contradiction unless it’s called truth telling, when is enough enough

Is JP an agent of transformation?

Unrelated but I'd love to see JPs point of view of the recently released Cass Report in the UK on the subject of care for young people with gender incongruence

Stories are how we check to see if you and I are having similar experiences.

God has visited me since I was a kid & every day God shows me the future events that will take place that day, & all the events happen exactly as God shows me they will. So as I go about my ordinary & somewhat mundane daily life things that are not normally part of my life & which I would never imagine possibly happening suddenly happen & I am confronted with them & I recall how God told me those things would happen. So my life is somewhat like living inside a crystal ball where a mystical force is making itself known to me & demonstrating its powers constantly. So it's like the powers of heaven & the earth are being perceived by my mind at the same time, & so my focus is not so much on the material things that happen but the power that showed me they will happen. And so I do not walk around having my inner spiritual beliefs confounded & put in check by material circumstances, I walk around & directly witness the things God has shown me all coming true. So to me life is a mystical walk where I directly witness what God has shown me I will witness. It's like my perception has an extra dimension that expands my life experience constantly & I live outside of the world at the same time that I am living inside it. This is just what God has done to me & created of me by visiting me all the time & showing me the future constantly.

#1 This is about to be a very interesting video!!

Interesting... this also works the opposite way: you can have good ideas in your head and walk out thinking that you are a reasonable person and will be dealing with other reasonable people... and then run into sociopathic/narcissistic people and/or a society of narcissists who contradict your good ideas/hopes/dreams; this reality in the light of day forces you to "correct" your perceptions of decency and goodness and this is how we become depressed and despairing.

What I find profound is that reality in the fifth dimension is constructed out of every single moment of time that has ever existed (4th dimension) pieced together as one picture (5th dimension). To experience one moment of time, one piece of that puzzle, would be to be in the 3rd dimension. The second and first dimensions are the building block of the third dimension, and this is significantly influenced by energy and quantum gravity. So in essence, time does not actually exist, but the brain pieces together a set of possibilities that can exist within the quantum dimension of infinite possibilities as a linear movement from one piece of the puzzle to the next, and depending on which piece you are at, the possibilities change further. This even allows an explanation for an infinite amount of variations of the universe - essentially a different timeline pieced out of an infinite amount of puzzle pieces (that each represent a moment). I wonder what the components of a “moment” are. I would describe it as: the event or occurrence itself, the meaning it holds to the person, and the emotions and feelings experienced during that event. As these factors change, the moment begins to change and morph into another moment. I am fascinated at the way in which geometric patterns become realigned and changed in a DMT/LSD trip. Thinking in a more positive and open-minded way seems to have an effect on the beauty and color of these geometric patterns, and I am beginning to think that life is made out of these complex light forms at a higher level and those forms eventually slow down into density and become that which we call matter. Matter, of course, has its own vibration and frequency, meaning that it is never fully static. Disorder is simply a chaotic organisation of energy. When energy begins to break loose, there is some chaos that is bound to occur until it becomes rearranged into something coherent. I think that anyone can become a pure genius if they realise that if we are able to apply micro science (like contrasting between atomic bonds and shared interests between people, as an example), we may be able to uncover the hidden energetic workings that go by unnoticed by the majority of the world.

(It's "The Wizard of Oz")

The Blind , The Deaf , The Paralyzed , How Does This Change The Map Of Reality ... 🧐

L'unico motivo per cui mi dispiace non comprendere l'inglese è non poter comprendere la Bellezza dei dialoghi del dott.Peterson

Map of Consciousness, David R Hawkins. Power of the Arm. Why guess, believe, or theorize? When you can know 100%

As time goes on I realize more and more how this is Jordan Petersons greatest insight.

He should read the diamond sutra

People are storytellers because their brains reflect on themselves. From the first prehistoric drawings to Star Wars today

Although children are afraid of the dark, I'm not sure they are afraid of death. I found it interesting that when I spent time on Halloween painting children's faces that they seemed very relaxed when I had a skull face makeup on myself. When I had a more decayed look of a zombie, then they were so frightened they wouldn't even respond when I asked them their name. But if it was just the skull face they seemed to be in a very relaxed, happy, and mesmerized state.

The major flaw with defining Consciousness is the belief that the human is the one experiencing what we call life, or even has a Consciousness of it's own.... The Purpose of the Human Being, and all appearances of Mortality are to Lie about the Infinite, Omnipresence Spirit of God to encourage the Spirit/Soul die to the False Sense of Mortal Self, as the Purpose of the Soul is to take Dominion over our only Adversary, the World Mind and it's thoughts tempting us to believe mortality/form/decay is reality. The massive wall we have built shielding us from our truth lies in intellectual concepts known as the Graven Images of Mortality experienced through the senses(including all religious beliefs). What is of God Consciousness is Infinite, and what is not of God is an Appearance of a False Image where Only God is.... Heaven is where you are and the only place that you can ever be, yet Hell is the place that you insist on experiencing by entertaining a mortal life separate and apart from God. We cannot glorify the Father, and glorify the flesh, or the sense of a personal Me separate and apart from God(including the flesh of jesus). Our Consciousness can not be divided in this. Either God is or God isn't the Only Life, and our experience is the Demonstration of either/or, depending on our receptivity to Life(Immortality), or Death(Mortality)... Where there's a Me(human self-love and human self-will) separate and apart from God there is SIN..... SELF...................S INDULGED..........I NUISANCE.........N He who Realizes his Life is the Spirit of God has Eternal Life! He then walks through the mortal appearance a Divine Being, in who the 5 Senses of Mortal Lies have been Impersonalized, therefore hold no power over him. His fidelity is to the Immortal Spirit he is, and no longer to the mortal illusion of life not of God.... We Must OVERCOME the Belief that we are not Immortal, Divine Being..... To him that Overcometh the temptation of the tree of good and evil(belief in a mortal existence separate and apart from God)will I give to eat of the Tree of Life(ALL GOD IS/ETERNAL LIFE), which is in the Midst of the Kingdom of God(Omnipresence).... Turn ye from the false images of the mortal world of man with breath in his nostrils, and Dwell in the Secret Place of the Most High!! I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD....of the 5 senses of Mortal World Mind Belief, knowing they can only lie.... The degree to which we can look at the shadow of the material world of death/mortality that is not of Spirit/God and not be disturbed by it is the Path of the Realized Christ.... I and the Infinite are One.... We are not a Christian until we know Christ is our Identity, as only Christ can do the works of God because man can not!! It is this Truth, this Principle of GOD BEING THE ONLY LIFE that is the greatest enemy of the Church, and why so many Illumined Beings that have spoken about GOD BEING THE ONLY LIFE were ultimately imprisoned, beaten, ostracized, murdered, and more by Religious Belief/Church. The Church, because it can not Demonstrate the Teaching of the Christ must keep you focused on a historical and physical interpretation of what is a Literal Spiritual Message. They use the Unreality of the mind and body to keep you imprisoned because they can not use the Spiritual Truth to do so. Those of God Realized Consciousness(my fellow brother and sister Mystics) wrote the bible, and only those of a God Realized Consciousness can Discern it. NO RELIGION or RELIGIOUS INDIVIDUAL HAS EVER UNDERSTOOD THE TRUTH OF THE BIBLE, and have certainly never practiced it!! To learn the bible one must come to the Virginal Conscious Realization that the Perfect, Immortal Life of God is the Only Life, and only then will God begin to Unfold through the appearance of you as God does through all Illumined Beings!! I and the Father are One!!!

They specify a treasure house of value? Or just sugary sweet liquid

I think consciousness develops in the human being as we learn to articulate our inner life spatially. Without up, down, left, right, forward and back in our inner life we are unable to separate and coordinate our perceptions.

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Consciousness, the enigmatic essence of human experience, serves as the cartographer of reality, crafting intricate maps of our surroundings through the lens of subjective perception. This narrative weaving of reality is underpinned by a complex interplay of neural networks, synaptic connections, and sensory inputs within the brain. Scientific studies in cognitive neuroscience reveal that consciousness arises from the synchronized activity of widespread brain regions, orchestrating a symphony of electrical impulses that translate external stimuli into coherent experiences. Furthermore, the brain’s capacity for storytelling, evident in the formation of memories and the construction of mental simulations, underscores its role as a narrative architect, shaping our understanding of the world. Thus, consciousness emerges not merely as a passive observer, but as an active participant in the creation of our perceived reality, navigating the intricate landscapes of existence through the artistry of storytelling.

3:14 This fairytale you referred to, I am living it out. With a wife named Elva, whom I call my elf and a motorcycle I've named Jessica Rabbit! ❤️💃🐇🏍️

Thomas Sowell takes something complicated, as makes it easy to understand..Peterson takes something easy, and makes it complicated & hard to understand.

Many people including me have thought from a young age that we create our own reality according to our beliefs. I love how Jordan explains and communicates this. Thank you.

Stories are ALL that we share.

I like the title ! ❤true story ! 😍

You're not wrong.

Cody Rhodes knows a thing or two about that, particularly when he just recently "finished his story." ;)

No, it's what's being refined by the story, the story itself does not matter.

Our consciousness is the fabric out of which we make your life. Our consciousness is the ground of our every response to every single thing which happens in our mental, emotional and physical life. Our consciousness is reality. This statement may be expressed in 2 ways, both of which are the truth of existence. Our consciousness creates reality, irrespective of actual facts. When people believed the earth was flat, they were afraid to venture too far over the ocean lest the ship will fall over the edge. People who believed in a flat earth, lived according to that belief. When Galileo said the earth was round, he was considered a heretic and a blasphemer but his perception of the "roundness of the earth" enabled sailors to take a new look at the world and set out to discover what lay the other side of the ocean. It required a change in their belief to make this possible. We are in a similar position. People who discount and ridicule others are like people who believe in a flat earth and were afraid of falling over the edge if they sailed too far to the west or east of their known environment. Their horizons are severely limited by their false beliefs. So are the horizons of people who believe the world to be solid, also severely restricted. Day after day, people lament and grieve over the misfortunes which have befallen the world, believing there is no escape from them. But people who can grasp and welcome the Truth of Consciousness are like those who perceived that travel on the oceans can be limitlessly undertaken in all directions, as long as they have the will to set out on such a journey. Therefore, our state of consciousness is the most important consideration in our life-not our relationships or possessions or our position in life. Tend to your consciousness and the blessedness in all aspects of your life will follow. ​ By our consciousness we feed ourselves with inner love and harmony, joy and beauty, even in the backstreets of a slum. With such consciousness, we will find ourselves being removed from the streets of the slum into an environment in keeping with our Godness. So do we climb out of unpleasant circumstances. From the foregoing, you should now be able to see that only we create the "quality" of our internal world, whether we find ourselves externally in prison or in command of a battleship! ​And we can enhance our surroundings by radiating to them the life force which animates our thinking. Our external life only impinges on our consciousness. It does not-cannot-create or determine our conscious responses. We are the "creator" of our responses. Our type of creation depends entirely on our deepest perceptions and beliefs regarding existence. Our convictions and strongly-held beliefs may be completely illusory but if we fully believe in them in our subconscious, they become absolutely real for us.

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Me sitting here, listening to Jordan Peterson conveying what the Bible said all along.

23rd, 17 April 2024

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