By: Cathy Glei on November 15, 2023
It was a blistery, cold Sunday afternoon. I was resting at home with my youngest daughter, Abigail, an infant at the time, while my husband took our other two daughters sledding with some friends of ours. I was awakened from an afternoon nap when I heard someone yelling from our answering machine, “Cat, I’m on…
By: Russell Chun on November 15, 2023
超越, Chāoyuè = Transcendence, Chinese Part 1 What my peers are saying, Ying and Yang revisited. Part 2 Freud, Jung and Lieberman Part 3 DMN revisited & Transcendence. Part 4 Epilogue…Oswald Chambers Part 1 What my peers are saying, Ying and Yang revisited. In many of the cohorts blogposts (all written very well) I sensed…
By: Shonell Dillon on November 14, 2023
The Scandal of Leadership There’s a war going on and if you’re going to win, you better make sure that you have Jesus deep down within. This battle can not be won with bullets or guns. Because the enemy you can not see, the human faculties. We wrestle not against flesh and blood but against…
By: Alana Hayes on November 14, 2023
Certain books possess such exceptional quality that they engross readers to an extent where stopping becomes unthinkable. Then there are some books that are so outstanding like “The Scandal of Leadership” that comprehending the entirety of the author’s intended message becomes extremely challenging due to the multitude of intricate aspects which require not only careful…
By: Shonell Dillon on November 14, 2023
Antifragile The postman that I reported for carelessly placing the mail in different boxes decided to pay me back. Instead of placing my package on the porch, he decided to throw it underneath my car tire. He did not know if I had something fragile in the box. He was acting Spell Bound. That is…
By: Pam Lau on November 14, 2023
A few weeks ago, my husband, Brad, and I had dinner with a friend who moved out of state during the Pandemic. Mark sat across the table from us seemingly more at peace than the last time we saw him. He caught us up on his new job, his wife and three children. Because I…
By: Kally Elliott on November 14, 2023
“Now, go to bed and let your brain work on it while you’re asleep.” My mom frequently said this to me when I was a child practicing a new song on the piano. I would roll my eyes, believing she was just trying to get me to go to bed for the night, but she…
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: 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…
