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139. Maps of Meaning 11: The Flood and the Tower

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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What Is the Transcendental Value of Awe?

If you exist within a conceptual structure, and you encounter that which is outside the conceptual structure, you will feel awe. That's a combination of fear, paralysis, right? And a combination of overwhelming possibility. For example, if you listen to a great piece of music, what happens? The hair on the back of your neck stands up. Why? Cause you're a prey animal, and you just puffed up to look bigger. Its pilo erection, and it's part of awe. So there's a god exist swhere awe is experienced.That's perfectly reasonable. When you think that, what you're trying to do is formulate what constitutes the transcendent....

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