{"id":36865,"date":"2024-03-19T16:06:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T23:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=36865"},"modified":"2024-03-19T16:14:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T23:14:24","slug":"ztracen-ve-tme-lost-in-the-dark-czech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/ztracen-ve-tme-lost-in-the-dark-czech\/","title":{"rendered":"Ztracen ve tm\u011b. Lost in the dark – Czech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ztracen ve tm\u011b. Lost in the dark – Czech<\/strong><\/p>\n

Flashback<\/p>\n

Part 1 What my peers are saying<\/p>\n

Part 2 What Peterson taught me.<\/p>\n

Epilogue \u2013 New Map\/Old Map<\/p>\n

Flashback<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scene #1 – Steelpot jammed on his head, flashlight in hand \u00a0– fighting the dark, wind threatening to rip the map from his hands, the 2LT was leading his convoy of 20mm Vulcan Air Defense Weapon systems into his General Defense Plan locations pointed east towards the Czech Border.\u00a0 The flashlight had a red filter reducing the ability of the enemy to target the racing jeep, but the dampened light made it darn hard to read the map. The drill was in preparation for the Soviet Union invasion of Europe.<\/p>\n

Scene #2 \u2013 The sun beat down on the tent where sweat stained straps of the young Captain\u2019s Kevlar helmet seemed surgical implanted onto his head.\u00a0 He moved small plastic templates across the map ensuring that the Patriot Missile coverage protected the leading edge of the VII U.S. Corps as it swung up between the French and Arabs sectors.\u00a0 Designed to engage hostile aircraft and now SCUD missiles the little plastic templates represented men and women soldiers \u201cat risk\u201d while defending the movement into Kuwait.<\/p>\n

The list could go on.\u00a0 Maps have been a part of my life.\u00a0 Then came GPS and until the next Electromagnetic Pulse, guides me on my next geriatric run to Walmart. (Old soldiers fade away to Walmart hardware aisles).<\/p>\n

There are all kinds of maps, and Jordan B. Peterson,\u00a0Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief<\/em>\u00a0[1]<\/a>takes us on a journey that seems similar to Joseph Campbell\u2019s\u00a0A Hero With A Thousand Faces<\/em>\u00a0[2]<\/a> left off.<\/p>\n

What ChatGPT4 says in comparison of the two authors. \u201cIn summary, while there is an overlap in the exploration of myths and the human psyche, Campbell’s “The Hero with a Thousand Faces” presents a more focused exploration of the narrative structure of myths across cultures, whereas Peterson’s “Maps of Meaning” provides a broader analysis of the role of belief systems in shaping human understanding and behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n

Using AI as a research tool provides an interesting summary.\u00a0 But it lacks, of course, the depth of spiritual mapping that we need to guide our lives.\u00a0 For that I turn to my peers.<\/p>\n

Part 1 What my peers are saying.<\/strong><\/p>\n

DLGP02 Tim Clark (one of my favorite pastors) drills down the book to the goal I was looking for, he writes, \u201cI\u2019m indebted to Peterson for his important maps-of-meaning metaphor, but I want to teach those I shepherd not to engage the Bible as \u201ca\u201d map among many, but instead to see it as \u201cthe\u201d map to align the rest of the life-maps to, to keep us from getting lost.\u201d<\/p>\n

AMEN<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

DLGP02 Jennifer Vernam as always challenges us to further thinking.\u00a0 She applies this week\u2019s reading to last week\u2019s unconscious biases.<\/p>\n