The Cathedral, the Staples of Stone and Light

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Even though i'm an atheist, i feel totally moved and almost spiritual wand i'm in there. The stained glass is beautiful in a way that's sort of supersensory. It's more than anything you would normally experience in the outside world. And then there's e the factof the proximity of deathd an sacrifice. I don't think that you can be a biologically oriented psychologist in the beginnings of the 20 first century and deny the centrality of the religious instinct. So, and we don't know what to make of it. Aa hai, maybe.

Join Michael Shermer and Jordan Peterson (bestselling author of 12 Rules for Life) for this extraordinary conversation based on Peterson’s new book Beyond Order. After working for decades as a clinical psychologist and a professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto, Peterson has become one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals. His YouTube videos and podcasts have gathered a worldwide audience of hundreds of millions, and his global book tour reached more than 250,000 people in major cities across the globe. What is it that gives Peterson’s message such mass appeal?