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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Union Hypothesis Is That the Deities Are Transpersonal

The union hypothesis is that's be they turned into psychological traits fundamentally, or motivation forces. In the modern world, where we've been able to separate out the object and the motive force of the object, the deities have sort of moved inside of us and become psychological forces. But you can understand, if you think about it in this manner, that things weren't so clear prior to the dawn of the empirical age.

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