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138. Maps of Meaning 10: Genesis and the Buddha

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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How Did We Learn How to Act?

Bible was authored by multiple people across extraordinarily vast spans of time. It's like human beings acted, and then they dreamt, dreamed about how they acted,. Then they wrote down what theyDreamed about how they acted - that's how the book came into being. Weigh more than we understand. So we're acting something out. We don't know what it is, but we're doing our best to pull that information upward... partly by dreaming about it. That's what you're doing at night. You're trying to figure out what the hell you're up to. How could you possibly know? Best you can do is dream yourself up and then speak yourself into some sort...

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