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Lecture 12 in the Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series
In this, the final lecture of the Summer 2017 12-part series The Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories, we encounter, first, Hagar’s banishment to the desert with Ishmael and then the demand made by God to Abraham for the sacrifice of Isaac.
To sacrifice now is to gain later: perhaps the greatest of human discoveries. What, then, should best be sacrificed? And what might be the greatest gain? There are few eternal questions more profound and difficult.
In this lecture, I read an excerpt from Chapter 7 of my new book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, now available for pre-order at Amazon.ca and Amazon.com.
I am currently making arrangements to continue this series with a monthly lecture. That will start in September at a date and time yet to be announced.
Relevant Links
- 12 Rules for Life Live Tour: www.jordanbpeterson.com/events
- My new book: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-life
- My first book: Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief: jordanbpeterson.com/maps-of-meaning
- Dr Jordan B Peterson Website: jordanbpeterson.com/
- Self Authoring Suite: selfauthoring.com/
- Understand Myself personality test: understandmyself.com/
- Blog: jordanbpeterson.com/blog/
- Podcast: jordanbpeterson.com/podcast/
- Reading List: jordanbpeterson.com/great-books/
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This is such amazing insight. Thank you so much for sharing!!!!
Hello Dr.
I’m new to your work. I’ve been poking around and looked at some of your suggested readings. I was disappointed to see Rudolf Allers not recommended. His book “Self-Improvement” changed my life. And his book “What’s Wrong With Freud” was a real eye opener. He was a friend and big influence on Viktor Frankl.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Allers
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006207462
it’s all allegory folks…jordan is a modern day joseph campbell
I was so excited when I went to Amazon thinking (mistakenly!) your book had been released. Oh well, I need to do better with skimming emails anyway and being patient. Can’t wait until January!