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Noam Chomsky on Jordan Peterson

Obviously, but my point is the bulk of his commentary has nothing to do with clinical psychology. He is not functioning as an expert, but as a pundit giving his opinions. I am not saying there is anything wrong with that - just making it clear.

The stuff on the Bible and Jung are speculative and irrelevant to clinical psychology. He is really functioning as a pundit offering his opinions on current concerns. There is nothing wrong with that, but it should be made clear that he is just expressing his opinions and is not an expert providing facts and interpretation on current research in clinical psychology.

I can only suggest what I would do. I would write about the New Animism, Pachamama, and the Andean world view. The indigenous world view has been historically denigrated and considered inferior by Western academics and organized western religion, but in reality is now humanities only hope of survival. The New Animism https://brill.com/view/journals/mtsr/32/2/article-p115_2.xml?language=en Latin America - Pachamamism https://journals.openedition.org/poldev/2351

Millions of people relied on their word and took the J&J vaccine. Do we jump everytime they change their story?

The toxicity is non other then the toxicity of Western civilization – greed and arrogance. There is never enough, you have to keep acquiring more and more, and there is no limit. Then there is the pride of self improvement and the assumption that “self improvement” and “progress” are desirable in themselves. What is the difference between a PUA accumulating lays and Donald Trump accumulating real estate? Perhaps the only good PUA is a dead one.

I have taken so much ayahuasca that I have developed reverse tolerance. The more I take, the less aya I need to go on a journey. I take Bufo Alvarius once a month.

The idea is actually ancient. You have the Cult of Dionysus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_Dionysus

I don't listen to Rogan or any other media figure, but now it makes sense. He has more listeners than CNN. They have to attack the competition. https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/news-ufc-news-joe-rogan-seemingly-millions-listeners-tucker-carlson-fox-news-cnn

Why do people take this so seriously? Why can’t people have their own opinions? You now have YouTube commentators in little boxes commenting on YouTube commentators. Social media is pure madness.

It’s officially promoted as a development model, but is it really? Most pictures of the spiral, that I have seen, show the spiral moving upwards, which in our culture “up” means better than “down”. Would it be fair to say most spiralists would consider green better than red or yellow more evolved and desirable than blue? Would a spiralist be happy if you told him the present development will be frozen for a thousand years, or may even go backwards down the spiral? It is also a linear system with the arrow pointing in one direction, rather than cyclic. The presumptions of Western civilization are baked into the cake.

Judging, anger, or feeling superior always comes from the ego. But he is doing the same thing, i.e he feels superior to the hypocritical New Agers. It’s not true that only the privileged are into spirituality and healing. In my last ayahuasca ceremony, the man next to me was a policeman. I do all my ceremonies is Mexico, where people are more authentic and community oriented and come from all walks of life. There are also experienced shamen who know how to hold the space.

A shaman follows the path of the heart. That guy in the bottom right of the screen criticizing every step of the interview sounds like a yapping Chihuahua looking for another ankle to conquer. These pundits are all in their heads spinning someone else’s beliefs condensed from the social media atmosphere or main stream media. Their words are like dead men’s bones. That’s why I take the medicines, to alter my consciousness out of the noisy ego voice. Whether the QAnon Shaman is “right” is not important. What is important is that he chose the right methodology – jump into life boldly instead of just talking about it. I don’t know anything about QAnon but judging from its effect, it looks like a type of black magic. It is confronting our unconscious overlords to the extent that they feel it and are concerned.

Extremism is just a symptom indicating there is stress in society. The globalists make obscene profits by destroying millions of jobs and shipping them to China where slave labor is legal. The cause/effect is lost in the complexity and people are at each other’s throats, not seeing the powerful economic forces at work. The mass media further amplifies the conflict for deflection and profit.

He has chosen a difficult path – over three years in prison. But he seems up to the challenge. When he gets out, he will be a real shaman.

I didn’t know he was trying to be a real shaman. I thought he was just mocking. He was using peyote which is a good medicine. The only problem is he was doing it on his own and doesn’t appear to have had a legitimate guide. I am gravitating towards Shamanism. It is the birth right of every human being. Monotheism is a relatively young invention. The people of the entire world use to practice shamanism. If your background is European, monotheism only goes back at most 2000 years. 50,000 years ago, your ancestors were practicing shamanism. If you read the ancient Roman historians describing the Germanic tribes, you will think that they are describing the American Indians. The Germanic tribes were the “noble savage”. A “barbarian” is just someone who doesn’t speak Greek. When the Christians came into Europe, the first thing they did was cut down the trees and destroy the sacred groves that were all over Europe. Saint Boniface is famous for cutting down the sacred Donar Oak. To spread ideology and enslave the population, it was necessary to destroy the European’s connection with nature. https://www.amazon.com/Shamanism-People-Michael-William-Denney-ebook/dp/B00A01DQ2I/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2BMMXTXVMC0ZI&keywords=shamanism+for+white+people&qid=1641574911&sprefix=shamanism+for+white+people%2Caps%2C124&sr=8-1

You are asking a speculative question. The Buddha only dealt with "what is". Life is suffering.

I agree. The war of ideologies is an indication of an unbalanced society. I don’t even like spiral dynamics because it perpetuates the primary myth of Western culture: “progress”. I am gravitating towards shamanism – the pursuit of authentic, earth-centered, spiritual wisdom. The antidote for ideology is connection.

How can anyone assimilate his fast talking frenetic rambling about nothing significant? It’s like having junk food shoved down your throat at the speed of light. Contrast that with the slow thoughtful narratives of Alan Watts. Is this a change of culture, creating individuals who are more and more desperate to seek answers outside themselves? The crazy loud voice crushes the still small voice within – the source of authentic wisdom.

People project their personal preferences when they talk about age. My ex wife was 20 years younger than me. That's not a big deal in many countries.

I agree. But the only way a man will ever improve is by making those approaches. Although I don’t think the numbers are nearly as high as you estimated. You have time to do it. These fake gurus are not going to make it more efficient and they will actually just set you back and you will have less money to put into something more useful, like a dance instructor. That’s why this fraudulent marketing is successful. They are appealing to vulnerable men full of fear who aren’t willing to trust their own natural intelligence and want someone else to do it for them. But the helper helps himself to you.

I have found the most soulful people in ceremonies in Mexico. I have given up on the US. The fakery is too intense.

The marketing narrative is that you can develop skills that overcome looks, status, etc. That is a useful belief for buying their products. They will drain your bank account and you will still be faced with the reality. PUA is a scam.

What’s NOT Allowed: . Conspiracy theories (like Illuminati, Reptilians, 9/11 inside job, Flat Earth, Jews running the world, pedophilia rumors, etc) https://www.actualized.org/forum/guidelines/

The takeaway I get from Jordan Peterson is that he is a clinical psychologist who has mastered his material, but yet is not able to solve his own problems and addictions, which shows the impotence of Western psychology and why, if you want to heal, you need to search elsewhere, starting with yourself.