By: Andy Hale on November 30, 2022
The murder of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of police officers in 2020 was just the tip of the iceberg. In the first eight months of 2020, Police in the U.S. killed 164 Black people. [1] Moreover, Black and Brown Americans have been saying for decades that the police are prejudiced and inequitable towards…
By: Eric Basye on November 29, 2022
The author of “Speaking Truth to Power”, James O’Toole, received his Doctorate in Social Anthropology from Oxford University and spent much of his career teaching, researching, and writing in the areas of leadership, ethics, and corporate culture. While he wrote many books, in 1965, his book Vanguard Management was named “one of the best business…
By: Kayli Hillebrand on November 29, 2022
James O’Toole has been a distinguished voice in the areas of business ethics and leadership for nearly three decades. With several books under this authorship and a resume that includes several roles served in federal leadership, O’Toole not only has classical education but a wealth of experiential learning. A Social Anthropologist by training, O’Toole addresses…
By: Michael Simmons on November 29, 2022
The phrase “speaking truth to power” originated from a pamphlet, Speak Truth to Power: a Quaker Search for an Alternative to Violence, published by the American Friends Service Committee in 1955. The pamphlet promoted love over hate, and preferred peace to the rising tensions of the Cold War.[1] James O’Toole adapts this phrases and ethos for organizational…
By: Mary Kamau on November 27, 2022
As I read two books, “Maps of Meaning” and “The Psychological Significance of The Biblical Stories” by Jordan B Peterson, a psychologist, I must admit that I was conflicted. I found myself in a defensive posture and wondering whether Peterson was equating Jesus, the Creator of all things to a mythological hero.[1][2] Time, travel, and…
By: Nicole Richardson on November 18, 2022
The existential problem of evil has been a wrestling match humanity has participated in since the dawn of time. It is this very existential question Jordan B. Peterson attempts to tackle in his book Maps of Meaning : The Architecture of Belief. Relying heavily on the principles of the hero’s journey outlined in Joseph Campbells…
By: Denise Johnson on November 18, 2022
To adequately engage with Jordan Peterson’s Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief,[1] far more time and even more space is necessary than is possible in this brief post. Peterson is the popular Canadian Psychology Professor from Toronto, who uses philosophical reasoning to explain “how humans generate ‘meaning.’” [2] Peterson’s manner of communicating his theories…
By: Henry Gwani on November 18, 2022
Maps of Meaning draws from several disciplines to propose a framework of constructing meaning and understanding religious and mythological models of reality that align with neuropsychology. Written by Jordan Peterson, a professor of psychology and practising clinical psychologist, the book draws significantly from the author’s engagement with religion, philosophy, mythology and neuropsychology. Peterson states his…
By: Elmarie Parker on November 18, 2022
Reading “Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief”[1] by Jordan B. Peterson was an exercise in applying Michael Polanyi’s insights from “The Tacit Dimension.”[2] Polanyi’s core hypothesis is, “we can know more than we can tell [sic].”[3] In listening to an introductory lecture by Peterson to “Maps of Meaning,”[4] I lost track of the number…
By: Kayli Hillebrand on November 17, 2022
Jordan B. Peterson clinical psychologist and faculty at the University of Toronto wrote Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief fifteen years ago to address the depths of why and how people believe what they believe. Grounded in neuropsychology, this book both macro and micro analysis of different topics including the known and unknown, chaos…
By: Troy Rappold on November 17, 2022
After twelve years of working on the manuscript, Jordan Peterson’s, “Maps of Meaning” was first published in 1999. The book does not fall neatly into any one single category. The book crosses many categories—which is part of its appeal—but we can begin with psychology, then philosophy, mythology, spirituality and even the self-help genre should be…
By: Roy Gruber on November 17, 2022
In Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief, Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson offers a complex theory of why people believe what they believe. His premise is to show how people construct meaning and why meaning is essential to people’s existence, not just things,. He also unpacks the vital psychological functions that beliefs perform. A…
By: Michael Simmons on November 16, 2022
Jordan B. Peterson’s book Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief, is an in-depth look at the backdrop and intricacies of mythology, Jung’s complex theory, archetypes of the collective unconscious, and how they affect belief and behavior. Peterson writes, “Myth is not primitive proto-science. It is a qualitatively different phenomenon […] The mythic universe is…
By: Andy Hale on November 16, 2022
The concept of reading many of the Biblical passages with a literal interpretation is quite a novel concept. Take, for example, Genesis 1-11 being a literal retelling of how the earth was formed, the first humans, the great flood, and the Tower of Babble would have been anathema to the Hebrew writers, let alone most…
By: Eric Basye on November 15, 2022
Dr. Jordon B. Peterson was a late bloomer. After completing his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from McGill University, he researched and taught at Harvard. Yet, he returned to his homeland of Canada in 1998 and joined the faculty at the University of Toronto. One year later, he wrote a very dense book that could not…
By: Mary Kamau on November 11, 2022
The whole idea of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain technology has caused a storm and excitement as the world embraces globalization and unprecedented freedom, away from government bureaucracy and control. Many have benefitted and made fortunes by transacting with Cryptocurrencies without paying taxes and being subjected to government bureaucracy. There is even new talk about converting national…
By: Henry Gwani on November 11, 2022
The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking explores the emergence of Bitcoin as a significant cryptocurrency. Tracing the history of money from the primitive times of trade by barter and the use of monetary metals to this age of digital money, the book describes how the use of money became centralized and how…
By: Denise Johnson on November 11, 2022
“Change money? Change money? Dollar? Marks?” This phrase still haunts me when I am in certain places in Poland. These persistent pleas of individuals with hopes to unload the local currency for a more value stable one.[1] Every Westerner knew these cries, as the hard currency they had could buy their way out of any…
By: Kayli Hillebrand on November 10, 2022
Saifedean Ammous is an Austrian based scholar focused on the research and teaching of bitcoin. In his foundational book The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking he lays out the various components and interworking of the cryptocurrency bitcoin. I must admit that this is not a topic that I easily understand and even…
By: Nicole Richardson on November 10, 2022
There are a few things I just don’t understand: Facebook algorithms, people that drive on the road like they are the only one there, those who can’t seem to have their money ready at the register, and cryptocurrency. Somehow, I have a better grasp on the Trinity than I do on bitcoin/NFT’s. Saifedean Ammous, author…
