A discussion about Religion, Myth, Science and Truth. It was originally recorded by Transliminal in November 2015.

  • 0:00 Intro: Peterson’s Journey
  • 9:45 Religion: Crowd-control, Naive Science, or Neither?
  • 14:44 Scientists Misreading Religion
  • 17:13 Enter: Dominance Hierarchies
  • 18:14 Hierarchies, Religious Thinking, and Subjectivity
  • 19:57 Determining the Truth of a Theory
  • 28:09 Deep Darwinism and Religion
  • 31:02 Truth as Action
  • 1:00:52 The Intellect
  • 1:04:11 Evolutionary Roots of Western Religion
  • 1:17:36 From Nature to Hero Mythology
  • 1:23:58 Piaget and Pre-rational Morality
  • 1:28:43 Metaphorical Thought
  • 1:36:00 Science and Moral Truth
  • 1:48:17 Evolutionary Psychology and Deep Time
  • 1:49:13 Religious Metaphysics: Optional?
  • 1:55:50 Interlude: Triangulating Meaning
  • 1:58:02 End of Religion?
  • 1:59:18 Reducing Religion & Expanding Evolution
  • 2:01:09 Jung: Studying Information, Not Matter
  • 2:08:16 Metaphor vs. Reality: Not Obvious
  • 2:13:24 Humans: Efficient Complexity Managers
  • 2:21:06 The Multicultural Dimension
  • 2:27:35 From Theory to Action

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