Peterson : I’m an odd sort of Christian, I suppose, for a variety of reasons.... There is an idea of the Eternal Soul, and it tends in Christianity to remain somewhat gendered, although there is an idea that it’s the Logos that is redemptive for males and females...and Logos is symbolically represented as masculine. I think that’s because the masculine spirit, so to speak, is freer in some sense than the female spirit, because it’s more tightly tied to the necessity of procreation and so forth. It’s something like that.... Societies have posited for a very long period of time that there’s something about human consciousness that transcends the limitations of the finite self. And you also mentioned the use of psychedelics, and obviously that was part of your experience of discovery. There’s a reasonable amount of evidence, and most of it was compiled by a man whose name, if I remember, was Wasson, who was an amateur mycologist, a student of mushrooms... R. Gordon Wasson . And he claim
Enjoying the U.tv course, prof! And First Things just published:
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IN THE ACADEMIC SANDBOX
A SKIRMISH IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES.
by Charlotte Allen
June 2019
Congrats Prof. I'm looking forward to it and to see your work grow along with Unauthorized.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your upload on unauthorized.tv . It has given me many points to reflect on and given me new reading material. Well done!
ReplyDeleteSaw this, thought of you. Might you teach a future Tolkien course after the Medieval course at U.tv?
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Tolkien and Reality
JUL 5, 2019 CHARLES A. COULOMBE
I would love to! Have you checked out the blog for the course I teach at Chicago? https://tolkienmedievalandmodern.blogspot.com
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ReplyDeleteI resubscribed to UA.tv and I just finished the first episode of your Medieval History series. Thank you so much, it was a delightful hour and I look forward to the rest of the series.
I must confess, having experienced things in my own life far more "marvelous" than what you cited, I'm open to the possibility that the marvelous events recorded in primary sources were faithful accounts of real events. Of course, no reasonable person can believe anything that hasn't been authorized.
To misquote the Bard, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are verified in your newspaper."
Episode 3 and the reports of monks going out into the wildernesd to seek God... I found that very intetesting.
DeleteI am so happy you are enjoying the videos! Be sure to check out the study guides, if you want to read further: https://unauthorizedmedievalhistory.blogspot.com/
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