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00:00:00.940Hey everyone, real quick before you skip, I want to talk to you about something serious and important.
00:00:06.480Dr. Jordan Peterson has created a new series that could be a lifeline for those battling depression and anxiety.
00:00:12.740We know how isolating and overwhelming these conditions can be, and we wanted to take a moment to reach out to those listening who may be struggling.
00:00:20.100With decades of experience helping patients, Dr. Peterson offers a unique understanding of why you might be feeling this way in his new series.
00:00:27.420He provides a roadmap towards healing, showing that while the journey isn't easy, it's absolutely possible to find your way forward.
00:00:35.360If you're suffering, please know you are not alone. There's hope, and there's a path to feeling better.
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00:00:47.460Let this be the first step towards the brighter future you deserve.
00:00:57.420Welcome to Season 3, Episode 11 of the Jordan B. Peterson Podcast.
00:04:20.500So, we're going to talk about the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.
00:04:27.500And then the story of the sacrifice of Isaac.
00:04:31.860Which is an extremely complicated, complicated story.
00:04:36.480And so we'll try to make some headway with that.
00:04:38.240The story of Sodom and Gomorrah is plenty complicated too.
00:04:40.640All right, so what we established last week, at least in part, was this idea that the Abrahamic narratives are set up as punctuated epochs, I suppose, in Abraham's life.
00:04:53.760And we were hypothesizing that, you know, you set out a goal for yourself in your life.
00:05:00.260It's like a stage in your life, you might say that.
00:05:02.580And then, when you run that goal to its end, when that stage comes to an end, then you have to regroup and orient yourself once again.
00:05:12.580And I was making the case that that's a good time to make necessary sacrifices, you know.
00:05:21.480And part of that's because as you move through your life, you have to shed that which is no longer necessary.
00:05:30.480And because otherwise, it accretes around you and holds you down and you perish sooner than you should.
00:05:38.860And I think that's in large part because if you don't dispense with your life as you move through it, then the stress of all that undone business and all those unmade decisions turns into a kind of chaos around you.
00:05:53.520And that chaos puts you in a state of psychophysiological emergency preparedness chronically.
00:06:02.400And so, it's necessary in some sense to stay light on your feet.
00:06:07.460And also, I think, to renew your commitment to your aim upward.
00:06:14.840And I believe that that's what the sacrificial routines in the Abrahamic stories dramatize.
00:06:21.340As I said already, that these things are often first portrayed very dramatically and concretely before they become psychologized.
00:06:32.920And we'll see, because one of the things that happens tonight as well in these stories is that when God makes his covenant with Abraham, this is the next part of the story.
00:06:42.180It's also when the idea of circumcision is introduced into ancient Hebrew culture.
00:06:48.280Now, there's every bit of evidence that other cultures were utilizing circumcision beforehand.
00:06:54.800So, it wasn't necessarily a novel invention of the Abrahamic people.
00:07:00.080But I see its introduction as a step on the road to the psychologization of the idea of sacrifice.
00:10:38.140So, we're going to talk about the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.
00:10:45.140And then the story of the sacrifice of Isaac.
00:10:49.480Which is an extremely complicated, complicated story.
00:10:54.100And so we'll try to make some headway with that.
00:10:55.860The story of Sodom and Gomorrah is plenty complicated too.
00:10:58.280All right, so what we established last week, at least in part, was this idea that the Abrahamic narratives are set up as punctuated epochs, I suppose, in Abraham's life.
00:11:11.380And we were hypothesizing that, you know, you set out a goal for yourself in your life.
00:11:17.900It's like a stage in your life, you might say that.
00:11:20.180And then, when you run that goal to its end, when that stage comes to an end, then you have to regroup and orient yourself once again.
00:11:30.220And I was making the case that that's a good time to make necessary sacrifices.
00:11:38.180You know, and part of that's because as you move through your life, you have to shed that which is no longer necessary.
00:11:48.180And, because otherwise, it accretes around you and holds you down and you perish sooner than you should.
00:11:56.480And I think that's in large part because if you don't dispense with your life as you move through it, then the stress of all that undone business and all those unmade decisions turns into a kind of chaos around you.
00:12:11.140And that chaos puts you in a state of psychophysiological emergency preparedness chronically.
00:12:20.020And so, it's necessary in some sense to stay light on your feet.
00:12:25.080And also, I think, to renew your commitment to your aim upward.
00:12:32.460And I believe that that's what the sacrificial routines in the Abrahamic stories dramatize.
00:12:38.980As I said already, that these things are often first portrayed very dramatically and concretely before they become psychologized.
00:12:50.540And we'll see, because one of the things that happens tonight as well in these stories is that when God makes his covenant with Abraham, this is the next part of the story,
00:12:59.760it's also when the idea of circumcision is introduced into ancient Hebrew culture.
00:13:05.920Now, there's every bit of evidence that other cultures were utilizing circumcision beforehand.
00:13:12.420So, it wasn't necessarily a novel invention of the Abrahamic people.
00:13:17.700But I see its introduction as a step on the road to the psychologization of the idea of sacrifice.
00:13:26.260First of all, it's giving up something concrete.
00:13:30.200And then, second, it's signified by the sacrifice of a part of the body for the sake of the whole.