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    Summary of Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning
    Summary of Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning
    Summary of Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning
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    Summary of Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning

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    Get the Summary of Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.Original book introduction: 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIRB Media
    Release dateFeb 22, 2021
    ISBN9781638154143
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      Insights from Part 1

      #1

      Most people believe we live in a purely objective world, governed by science and matter, but this is not the truth. The world we live in is both objective and spiritual.

      #2

      We often overlook the spiritual aspect, or fail to acknowledge it completely, because it is impossible to talk about spiritualism in a scientific context. The fact that spiritual reality cannot be quantifiable leads many to believe that it’s simply not there.

      #3

      Words are not merely a descriptive label that we put onto things, but rather can be seen as tools that help us achieve a certain goal. These goals can be practical and material, or more general and conceptual.

      #4

      This is why we have words for things that cannot be materially described, such as love – we invented them as tools to use in discussing goals that transcend the material world we sense, which we can call the spiritual

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