Interview with Manvir Singh on Gurus & Shamans
Decoding the Gurus
The Importance of Authority in Religious Traditions
Jordan Peterson sees Jesus as the ultimate manifestation of the embodiment of the competence hierarchy. In his world frame, in some sense, like the figure of Christ is a shamanic emblem that should be emulated. So he might like this notion that religious traditions are all offering these different ways of increasing your status within a given society. And I like the view of it as there's all these different wells that you can draw on.
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