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The Master and His Emissary: Dr. Iain McGilchrist

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is There a Snake in the Garden?

In genesis, the proper environment of humanity is construed as a garden. And so i see that as the optimal balance of chaos and order. As soon as you try to keep what's outside out, but you can't,. because the boundaries between things re permeable. So if you're going to have reality and you'reGoing to have a bounded space, you're going To have a snake in the garden? I would say there's a central theological issue there. It might not be possible to exist and to be safe. Our existence is predicated on the fact that we dies. Well, i's never safe. Rightnd, itis inevitably wrapped up with ye sort of finitude

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