"without the capacity to sin, there is no virtue in not doing it"

Just imagine for a brief second that these recordings were never made.... How disadvantaged would we all be and at what cost? What a great time to be alive x

He is not so much teaching them a subject, as simply telling these college kids the most important things they'll need to know to be adults. awesome.

Out of habit with most 1+ hour long videos on KZfaq, I automatically skipped to about 5 minutes in, to "get to the real stuff". I quickly found out, as I back tracked to 3 minutes, 2 minutes, 1 minutes, 30 seconds, I just had to keep going back to 0 to make sure I caught everything. Amazing lecturer. Thank you again Dr. P!

First sentence “so here’s how to conceptualise yourself in Jungian terms” Oh boy here we go...

So many of your sentences feel immediately true. Your premises are so honed, so sharp its god damn exciting to listen to.

Using The Lion King to explain Carl Jung's principles is pure genius. The first part of the lecture lays the foundation and the revelations begin with the movie clips. After watching many lectures by Professor Peterson, I really didn't expect him to mention Groundhog Day (Bill Murray) towards the end. The value of "paying attention" is repeated over and over in his work. Now I finally understand the true meaning of the "Eye of Horus" and its not what David Icke would have you believe.

You know you have an amazing professor when the class applauds after his lecture. J.B. Peterson is just what this world needs at this exact time in history.

Great analysis, I worked on Lion King as a merchandise designer w/ Disney, and most people don't know that this is the animated version of Hamlet, (another incarnation of the the jealous brothers, like Cain and Abel).

100 years from now a professor will be talking about JBP in this manner.

Jordan is easily the greatest teacher of our age

This man is an impeccable lecturer.

the single best lecture I have ever seen - priceless wisdom

WOW. This is just about as deep down the rabbit hole as I've ever gone.

"It's a lot easier to be disorganized and brutal than organized, productive and free". That's the sort of thing I might not have thought of, but once told, I recognize how true it is. And it explains politics in a way in one sentance! Numerous mind-expanding gems like this in Peterson's lectures.

Any time Dr. Peterson pauses and looks up, he’s downloading ageless wisdom from the collective unconscious

I’m so glad that someone is carrying on the tradition of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell. People that criticize the method as being “oversimplified” either miss the point and/or have no better way of explaining the timeless concepts that are all around us in stories.

I find it interesting that by donning a mask, either real or the mask of anonymity people are afforded when online, people’s persona’s are naturally bypassed, almost as if the unconscious knows the front of the persona is not necessary while anonymous, and this provides a direct channel for the unconscious self to emerge directly in the world, the shadow.

8:28 You should be nice to other people but you should also be nice to yourself. Now that’s a quote! 👌

If only I had known all this about my shadow self, instead of being ashamed and feeling bad about it as I was taught, a long time ago. Thank you Jordan Peterson..

Peterson's lectures always leave my mind wandering away from his train of thought, not by boredom but by captivation

Hope and pray to God you are still on the way back to full recovery Dr. Peterson

Just wanted to say thank you Jordan Peterson for sharing your lectures in the public domain for free. It’s absolutely wonderful to do this - it benefits us all. Excellent work which is very thought provoking, and an excellent catalyst for self development.

I have an exam tomorrow and this isnt even close to the topic but here I am watching through the whole thing. Great respect for you JP and thanks for giving us the opportunity to learn from such a intellectual person for free.

I can't even begin to express how helpful your lectures have been to me. Thank you Dr. Peterson

First professor I've seen getting applause at the end of every lecture. Thank you for posting these online.

Everything Dr Paterson is saying, I can relate to in one way or another. He's brilliantly articulating what we already know.

Man I would love for JP to break down the chronicles of Narnia.

28:14 "Harmless and virtuous are by no means the same thing."

Thank goodness that my generation has a scholarly public figure that has such fundamental wisdom to impart to humanity. I Love your books Jordan, thank you for doing all that your doing. We see you and deeply value everything you've done for our generation.

Greetings from Oz. I love and am grateful for this stuff. I also love how Prof. Peterson understands the game. Put your great songs up for free and live off your gigs and vinyl sales. Bravo!

Thank you Mr. Peterson, you have inspired me to go to college and study with other real scholars.

Hello, I'm a songwriter and mental health support worker from England and am also very interested in the work of C.G Jung and Mircea Eliade Have been enjoying your series on Personality very much over the past few weeks - Really great! David J

Dr. Peterson's lectures are always amazing. Thank you, professor.

Yes, this is spot on! Archetypes are often more undisguised in popular culture, more evident in action films, operas and romcoms than in Virginia Woolf. If you see the same elements again and again in films, songs, novels, dreams, then there are archetypes, too. This is not arbitrary. Deserts, jungles, mountaintops, floods, the depths of the seas, journeys, as challenges or settings, are common archetypes, too. There are hundreds. We know them from myths, fairy tales, and folk songs, and evergreens. Propaganda tries to feed from archetypes - like using fire, blood, flags, marches, black, red, white, etc, in its arsenal. Snowwhite, the evil queen, the seven dwarfs with their work in the mines. Many of us who are fascinated by Jung's analytical psychology kind of feel elevated when we recognize these patterns. A world of not random elements... it is suiting for the mind and satisfying from both an ethical and esthetical point of view - if these things are important to you - and if they are, then you need them in your life, like if you've got an N in your personality type, or otherwise inclined towards being a creative or a dreamer. Congrats if you resolve a riddle from a personal dream with their help.

26:16 the interrogations of chris watts and grant amato (both murdered their family: Wife and kids, and brother and parents, respectively) both reveal them claiming to be the "peacemakers" and "the ones who never got angry" in their families... Dr Peterson's remarks here just made me see the connection between perpetual avoidance and literally-overwhelming resentment.

I wish I had gone to college with you as my professor when I was much younger. But my path has led me to you now and I’m glad my choices have been validated by watching these lectures. I’m not completely proud of my past but I’m happy to know where I am headed in the future. I look forward to the day I get to look you in the eye, shake your hand and share my story with you. All the best Professor!

I just watched both lectures on Jung in this series; masterful teaching, Dr. Peterson. Very engaging, and, indeed, very enlightening - this coming from someone who reads every bit of Jung I can get my hands on.

Greetings from Lebanon Dr. Peterson, Thank you for sharing your wisdom, it’s a very enriching experience (full of insights). I would like to draw your attention to the origin of the word ‘nice’. From Latin (nescire = not know) to (nescius=ignorant), then old French /middle English (nice=stupid). It seems to me relevant to the discussion at the beginning of the lecture (8th min).

Im so glad im watching this for free. Greetings from Dominican Republic!

@ Jordan B Peterson wow, your words are like therapy to my soul. its like im surfing your wave of thought and enjoying the scenery wherever it is that you are taking me

After finding out about professor's condition yesterday, it now makes it so much more difficult to watch this and not worry about him. Here is a man, who taught us the real meaning of life and purpose while he himself is at great pain. Please be okay, Professor. Please.

What a privilege to be alive today, and be able to just pull this up and watch it whenever you want. Invaluable!

"Until you've practised being competent in a new domain, it's not yours. And so this clip is showing what is basically an eternal truth, which is that your territory is whatever you've mastered. And it's demarcated by everything you haven't mastered."

Jean- Jacque Rousseau; Thomas Hobbes on taking responsibility for self. Not blaming our past experiences or parents, the shortcomings challenge us to overcome traditions and embracing the now, tradition vs modernity. Thank you Prof Jordern Peterson , Carl Jung and Lion King. Not being nice to everyone safeguards the self and protects society.

The first 2 minutes alone are enough to ponder on for a whole day

I'm so stoked that I started listening to this man... My life and the lives of others, are better because of it... LONG LIVE JBP!!!!!!

As of May of 2020 (quarantine times) 436000 of us have watched all of part of this lecture... how many cohorts would have had to go through the classroom to reach this number? Thankfully JBP made available in this way! Amazing!

These lectures have helped me to understand myself so much better. Thank you Dr. Peterson for helping me to deal with all the pain I'm in. By understanding myself better I have been able to face my problems in a healthier way and change things about myself that were hurting me that I had been totally oblivious of before. I've fallen off the wagon but fortunately coming back here and listening to what you have to say has refreshed me in a way and I've been able to find my sense of direction again.

That Groundhog Day analysis really made me question my own days. Just wow. Thank you.

Hope you are doing better Mr. Peterson, We all are grateful for your thorough lectures and we miss you

How kind is JP & his team to make this available for free for those who wouldn't be able to access such advice & guidance & wisdom to help themselves & others 🥺. And after 16yrs in childcare & following JP for 2 of them....I'm strongly realising I may have what it takes to take the steps to train & become a counselor to help people. I'll be honest with you, I never had that thought before listening to JP & his passion for helping people, that same passion, I have. I hate people suffering. Ive recently sat with myself & noted I have the EQ to definitely sit some training & see where it takes me. All this inspiration I believe started with whoever led me to watch JPs talks 🙏 there's many reasons I believe this may be for me. And I will forever be thankful to JP for being such an inspiration ❤️ I'm aged 36

Such valuable information embedded in this story. Thank you for making it much more understandable Jordan!

10:40 darker virtues 28:36 virtue and sin 22:29 : englightment

30:55 hehe. "The point of animus inspired argument is to get you to argue; not to win; because by getting you to argue, the animus wins" Soo true..Thanks so much for sharing. love your brain!! Peace 1:04:06 Amen

My eyes teared up when he started talking about agreeableness and how it can stem from a childhood where the parental figure is aggressive. How to deal with an aggressive parent? I am still under their roof, starting my masters, in our culture it is difficult to leave the family nest before marriage. Have anybody any idea whether Peterson addressed in his lectures the more complex struggles living in an eastern society? Does anybody know whether he will launch one of his QnA soon? I'd love to ask him about this matter.

Grateful for having access to such gold for free

Endlessly fascinating - thanks so much Dr Peterson.

Currently 2 weeks into reading carl jungs "the undiscorvered self" these lectures certainly help being able to understand the jung lense so to speak.

I paid 30k at mediocre quality to learn what JP posts for free

I LOVE these older lectures. They seem less forced than his newer material.

@ Jordan B Peterson you inspire me to think macroscopically in a political sense

According to Orwell’s book, coal miners additionally often had a long commute from their villages to the pit head before they even began their horrific underground journeys. Historically , women and children also worked down the coal mines, usually naked because of the intense heat. Can you imagine the kind of abuse these vulnerable individuals were subjected to under such conditions? Equal to or worse than slavery.

Realizing and coming to terms with our limitations can be liberating.

Hey guys, It may be somewhere in the comments, but just found the movie about Hitler, which Jordan refers to: Triumph of the Will by Leni Riefenstahl.

That was the first commercial I listened to on KZfaq .... and I have been a contributor to Saint Jude for years...makes me feel good to do good .........Thank you for carrying on, Marlo..

Mind-blown, it felt like I got therapy myself for the recent emotions I was facing

Something that's really great about Jordan Peterson is that he's relatable to Alan Watts and vice a versa and although legal about the truth in different ways we actually intertwine more more so than anything else

Sure are enjoying these videos Dr. Peterson, just recently discovered your videos, didn't get a chance to get super educated, but getting a good dose of it now, see ya in Charlotte in June!

How many times I'll have seen "Groundhog day" and never saw the meaning underlying the plot in the way Jordan Peterson explains here. Brilliant.

Professor really dropped some absolute gems. Thanks you so much.

I have watched hundreds of hours of JP's work as well as read all of his books multiple times. These kind of lectures, in my opinion, are where he shines brightest though. I understand he was dragged down to discuss political issues and all sorts of complicated topics but, to me, this is where his genius really is to be found. Crazy to think this was recorded only 7 years ago...

“It is better to be feared than to be loved, if you can not be both” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

I have also shared this with our community. Thank you. :)

21:00 Oden had to lose an eye in order to gain wisdom from Mimirs well. And if I am not mistaken, Mimir himself was badly damaged and malformed.

53:23 When you are a kid and you are playing Hide and Seek

What I really love about these lectures is how it is clearly important to Dr Peterson that he convey these ideas in a way that will aid his students in their transition to adulthood, rather than simply provide them with a notebook full of unconnected concepts. He reminds me quite a bit of one of my philosophy professors who, unsurprisingly, is also doing quite well for himself now.

@ Jordan B Peterson YOU inspire me to be a better person! keep up the good work

Alfter this lecture I went to see, once again, the opening of The Lion King. Not ashamed to say that I cried quite a lot, I felt everything Dr Jordan Peterson said during his lecture. So powerfull

I have to say the philosophy of the shadow fascinates me. I want to learn more. It resonates with my spirit. I think if I am going to be whole as a person I need to embrace my shadow, understand it, work with it, know what I'm capable of good and evil, follow the good and keep the evil under control. It's interesting to look at Star Wars and observe the philosophy of the force vs the dark side. Every sith was controlled by their shadow, their anger. It would be interesting to see a sith who embraced the dark side, but wasn't devoured by the negative emotions, but harness their shadow. A dorky analogy, but intriguing. Thank you for posting your lectures. I am infatuated by Carl Jung philosophy and look forward to seeing future videos regarding this subject.

Very deep, a very good lesson for life. Jordan Peterson is a great Sophist and Teacher.

Keep doing the good work!!! Thank you 🙏🏻

One question I had been thinking about was whether or not the storyteller-composer-artist understood at the time of composition the implications that arise out of the piece. JBP is so completely brilliant to be able to dissect these seemingly simple stories and archetypes into the complexity they really are. I’m being introduced to this method of thinking and even though I’m in over my head, I’m completely fascinated and can’t stop. So the answer to my question would be no, the composer would not necessarily know the complexity they are building into the structure of the story or depiction because it is not necessary for them to know why they intuitively know deep rooted concepts they, in fact, convey.

Finally: university teachings that are useful for life outside of the university.

An outstanding KZfaq channel

Would love to be sat in one of his lectures writing notes. This topic is soo interesting.

Thank you Dr. Peterson, what I thought about when comes to the Anima and Animus are, that we have characters inside ourselves and these characters stems from real biological and historical substance. For all of these people inside you, you have to give them all meaning and purposes... meaning and purposes as a part of the whole. Lack of those would stem discontentment inside them. The discontent then would lead to all sorts of resistances or even sabotages of the others' purposes.

Thankyou; I love your mind and love this lecture. It came to me at the right time.

very cool presentation... thank you for sharing!

Such a brilliant lecture, we learn about our depths through this.

55:30 = Perfect description of neoclassical economics.

Thank you for uploading your wonderful lectures for us to view.

Brilliant! Majority of families/relationships and society in general can relate to Lion King mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Thanks Jordan! 👍🏻✝️❤️

Some serious life lessons here

God bless this man. May his speeches of wisdom be remembered forever and integrated to our human evolution of higher consciousness and pure love.

from 19:00 and on is really good u guys , he talks about enemas , acting as spirits that take over peoples behaviors. i found myself really reflecting and applying this on my own behavior and perhaps seeing it in other peoples behaviors aswell. also talks about the self a bit so it really made alot of sense...

“Because we know that the shadow of ideological possession is repression and death” can’t penetrate much deeper than that 😬

One of the best lectures ever.

I have no words, Jordan Peterson gives extraordinary lectures

hi mr peterson :-) thank you for sharing these videos with youtube - im not in your class but i really love the material you cover and im thankful for being allowed to share the experience. in the last video you talked about pinnochio, and in that film the fairy/goddess character tells pinnochio that to become real he must show himself to be brave, truthful, and unselfish. in this video you mention how the mark of an ideological slave is that you can predict their answer or response to most anything once you learn the handfull of axioms which make for the groundwork of their position -which i know to be true - but it made me wonder about how that compares to the idea of core principles, such as brave, truthful and unselfish, which would also result in a high degree of predictability (and that predictability i think is why core principles are CORE to begin with, since the predictability is from the fact that they are consistently functional and lead overall to positive results) and so my question is; how does one tell the difference? at a certain point dont we all become ideologues to an extent as a result of understanding and adherence to principles?