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138. Maps of Meaning 10: Genesis and the Buddha

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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What's the Story of Yung?

Yung believed that once we had stopped populating the cosmos with gods, that they went inside. His proposition was that you re discover the great archetypes that guide human being by investigating the structure of your imagination. And he thought about the imagination, in some sense, at least in part, as a manifestation of your of your biology. It's like the contents of your unconscious are manifesting themselves when you encounter the unknown. That's how you start to cope with what you don't understand. You populate the unknown with deities. Where did they come from? They came your imagination. How do you deal with the unknown? While the unknown is trapped out there and trying to solve the problem...

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