Maps of Meaning

By: Jordan B. Peterson

Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson

Length: 30 hrs and 52 mins

Publisher's summary

Jordan B. Peterson's Maps of Meaning is now available for the first time as an audio download!

Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself? From the author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos comes a provocative hypothesis that explores the connection between what modern neuropsychology tells us about the brain and what rituals, myths, and religious stories have long narrated. A cutting-edge work that brings together neuropsychology, cognitive science, and Freudian and Jungian approaches to mythology and narrative, Maps of Meaning presents a rich theory that makes the wisdom and meaning of myth accessible to the critical modern mind.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2002 Jordan B. Peterson (P)2018 Random House Audio

A prophet for our time

When I look at some of the issues and challenges facing the western world, I have often thought, I wish we had our own Mandela, or Gandhi, or King... You know, a voice that cries in the desert. I feel Jordan Peterson is such a figure. I'm sure he has some flaws, as the media is all to eager to point out, but I have to say that he is the most inspiring and intelligent person now alive that I know of. I pray for his protection and for God to give Jordan the wisdom he needs to know what to do. I hope JP will have a huge positive impact on the western world. I recommend all his books strongly, including Maps Of Meaning.

The masks of god

In the masks of god by Campbell tells of an Inuit shaman’s description of his initiation: In the dead of winter a hole was cut through the ice, I was lashed to a tree trunk and submerged so my feet stood on the the lake bottom for a month. “I died many times during that moon.”

Speaking a bit more plainly for those of you who have followed JP this puts his ideas together... kind of like the hobbit explaining the discovery of the ring of power.

Before encountering JP I had studied Jung and psychology in general at great length. Still MoM was very dense and complex. I’ve listened to it twice so far and will continue to revisit it.

It’s not an easy listen the subject matter will make you zone out and you will loose your place . .

But,

It’s well worth the process of drawing the metal from the ore.

Thanks Dr. P

Tough Audiobook

The PDF that accompanies this is necessary, as there are so many references to it. Because of that, it makes it difficult as an audiobook. I mostly would listen on commutes, but I can't with this book. This is more of a casual listen. The topic is quite in-depth, but it might be easier to just read the book. That being said, narration and story were great, but it's just a tough book with all of the references to the pdf.

Not best for Audible.

This is a very difficult book. I listened to it while at work so I frequently had to rewind some. Eventually I just decided to let it go, finish the audible, and buy a physical copy so I can really study his work. Even then I still thoroughly enjoyed listening to Mr. Peterson. Highly recommend.

Not for the faint at heart...

This is what anyone in humanities hopes to achieve: Every thought, explored. Every sentence, tested and cross-referenced. written with singled minded purpose.
No one can say Peterson mimics so and so. This is an original work that cannot has no comparison.
He doesn't for a single sentence ease up. he doesn't write any easy "one liners" for you to quote at a party with your friends. You will not guess where he is going. He verbally punches you quoting Nietzche, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn, Jung, others and even Jesus to hit his point.
It is not for the faint of heart. You will not walk away from this read saying: "I knew that."

A magnum opus of insights

Peterson’s Maps of Meaning preceded its cultural necessity and because it exists happily provides the intellectual antidote to today’s cancel culture and vapid delusions of leftist collective ideology.
Bravo to him and bravo to you who avail yourselves of this brilliant response to all that seeks to undermine the divine and heroic individual.
Thank you Dr. Peterson.
And thank you Audible.

incredible

Everyone in the 21st century should listen to this at least once. absolutely amazing work

A Great listen for anyone.

I love what he’s trying to accomplish with this book. I admire anyone who studies evil in hopes to find a way to combat it. 12 rules for life (his newest book) definitely a more digestible, but more water down version, of this. Worth it.

Impressive

I thoroughly enjoyed the book. I'm a huge fan of Dr Jordan already. This is icing on the cake.

REALLY Thick Material

This book is like an advanced course in religious studies and existential philosophy. I loved 12 Rules for Life. I loved this one too, but you might have a hard time digesting this one unless you make it a point to have an excellent vocabulary.