By: Tim Clark on November 14, 2023
The Sci-Fi novelist Arthur C. Clarke once said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”[1] I know that quote because it’s provided the seed for many of my favorite stories, from superhero movies like Thor and Dr. Strange, to Sci-Fi shows like Star Trek, to mysteries like Sherlock Holmes, to just about anything having…
By: Jonita Fair-Payton on November 14, 2023
Scary Start The title, the cover art and the first few lines made me a bit skeptical about what I was to read. I was genuinely confused and had to work through a few things before opening the book. First let’s talk about the title. Spellbound, sounds creepy, spooky, and instantly brought the image of…
By: Kim Sanford on November 14, 2023
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.[1] One of the archetypes Daniel Lieberman highlights is the Journey. It’s true that as humans we connect deeply to this idea of an epic journey or even seeing life as a journey. This is evidenced by the sheer volume of vocabulary that exists…
By: Shonell Dillon on November 13, 2023
Spell Bound In scary movies when something moves in a dark haunted room, one character usually turns to the other and says ” did you hear that”. That character wants to know if the person beside them hears the movement and/or sounds that they have heard. What happens when no one is there and you…
By: Alana Hayes on November 13, 2023
Disclaimer: It is important to me to say that I value the time that the author put into this book, and I value him as a person. I value the author as a medical doctor. I also want to encourage all of you that even if your WHITE FLAG is waving (System 2 thinking) like…
By: Jennifer Vernam on November 13, 2023
Ten years ago, in a Harvard Business Review article[1], Susan David and Christina Congleton covered the topic of Emotional Agility in leaders. In it, they observed that it was not the negative thoughts that trips up leaders, it’s the way they respond and process those thoughts. Dr Daniel Liberman helps us to unpack this concept…
By: Travis Vaughn on November 13, 2023
Before I started this post, I asked my wife, “What are you doing?” “I’m thinking,” she replied. This afternoon we moved some old couches from our living room to an upstairs room. With the open space in our living room, my wife is pacing, thinking how to fill it. Now that I’ve read Daniel Lieberman’s…
By: Sara Taylor Lattimore on November 12, 2023
This week in the life of a doctoral student, I was assigned the book, Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson. It is a book of over 500 pages of small print, including more notes and citation than I had time to count. The sub title of the book is “The Architecture of Belief”. The idea…
By: Kristy Newport on November 12, 2023
Books, and the authors that write them, do not always live up to my expectations. Eagerly I jumped into Spell Bound, anticipating greater insight into Jungian psychology, archetypes, and the unconscious coming to greater consciousness.[1] Some of these discoveries were made, but as I came into the second half of the book, something in my…
By: Alana Hayes on November 12, 2023
“We tell ourselves stories about who we are, where we would like to be and how we are going to get there. These stories regulate our emotions, by determining their significance of all the things we encounter and all the events we experience. We regard things that get us on our way as positive, things…
By: Audrey Robinson on November 12, 2023
Introduction Jordan Peterson explores mythological stories from religion, rituals, drama, and mythology to provide a philosophical and psychological narrative of the hero. His work, Maps of Meaning, also provides a window into how myths have helped form how humans make sense of the world through shared stories. Peterson explores the psychological aspects of meaning and…
By: Jana Dluehosh on November 10, 2023
I am, was, will be, always have, sometimes am a “good girl” depending on your definition. I grew up most of my life in North Dakota, where there was not a lot to get in trouble with, except the normal teenage stuff. As an adult reflecting back, I always wondered why I didn’t do more…
By: Chad McSwain on November 10, 2023
“How do know the love of God is not a counterfeit-love?” This was asked by a teenager in a recent youth meeting on Wednesday night. The youth leader came up to me after the meeting and asked how I would answer that question. I thought about it for a moment then said, “If you know…
By: Caleb Lu on November 10, 2023
In the book Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief, Jordan Peterson takes the reader on his journey in making sense of his own life choices along with the world events that surrounded him as he grew up (predominantly the Cold War and the threat of nuclear warfare)[1]. His observations, musings, and research led him…
By: Michael O'Neill on November 10, 2023
Introduction Dr. Jordan B. Peterson thoroughly investigates the human experience in his book, Maps of Meaning. Peterson provides the reader with insights from philosophy, mythology, and religion; and positions his psychological perspective around understanding the importance of meaning. He opens with “Something we cannot see protects us from something we do not understand. The thing…
By: Jean de Dieu Ndahiriwe on November 10, 2023
Introduction Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief by Jordan Peterson is one of few challenging books, yet full of great insights that evoke more questions than answers. Even though it is hard to read, I have found a few areas where I identify with Peterson. He writes intriguing concepts worth exploring. Humans explore their…
By: Dinka Utomo on November 9, 2023
We will only know who we really are by the re-ordering of our agency, the transfer of object and subject of self, in relationship to the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. -Jason Clark- There was a Sunday School song that was sung quite often when I was little. The lyric quote is as…
By: Jenny Steinbrenner Hale on November 9, 2023
In a conversation with my dad this week, he asked what we were reading in our DLPG class. “Maps of Meaning, by Jordan Peterson,” I replied. He said he was familiar with the title, as it is one of his grandsons Nic’s favorite books. Nic was a philosophy major and often could be found in…
By: Todd E Henley on November 9, 2023
Years ago, I heard a story of a middle-aged woman named Nancy who lived in Pennsylvania and one summer traveled to California to visit her sister. Nancy and her sister decided to go shopping in Tijuana, a Mexican border town below California. On their way back to the car to head to California, Nancy saw…
By: Shonell Dillon on November 9, 2023
It was often a practice of my peers to dare someone. Daring you meant that they were willing to make a bet that you would not do some crazy thing. For those that were not afraid of adventure or the unknown, they accepted the dare. If in fact the dare was dangerous they suffered their…
