
Maps of Meaning 7, 8, & 9
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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The Greatest Resurrection Story of the West
All myths of paradise show us primordial man enjoying a beatitude, a spontaneity and freedom. Buddha starts his life in what's essentially a walled garden by all,. And as a consequence of his emergent self consciousness, the unself conscious, childlike perfection of that early state is permanently disrupted. So you have a situation where the greatest redemption story of the east follows precisely the same grammatical track as the greatest creation story of the west.
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