Jordan Peterson's Spiritual Awakening

This man is as deep as the ocean, and just as beautiful.

I really love this video. But what I love even more is the comment section. I feel like even though I will (probably) never meet you guys, we share a really deep bond as human beings trying to understand ourselves.

7:35 "it wasnt like i was hearing voices or anything like that" voice in his head: it was "it wasnt like that!!!"

I'm about 3 years into my own awakening. The first 2 years were so hard. Mostly because I was so scared and confused. But in the last year or so I finally let go and accepted my spiritual self is now guiding me. And whats really fascinating is how much better my life is getting the more I let my essence speak, rather than my ego. So much has burnt off, and it's a daily practice of learning how to listen and respond to the split. I'm becoming a new person every day.

The moment he felt the split into two entities, Peter Jordanson was born.

I learned the word innocuous today....

JP always seems like he's taking you on a journey with him trying to figure out life......it's pretty cool

I totally identify with what he is saying. I too, have had this ‘split’ of awareness. I remember one day looking in the mirror with the semi conscious purpose of confronting myself. It was awkward... I have looked in the mirror many times and never even noticed much except whether my hair was in place. However this time I asked my reflection “Who are you?” I felt stripped to the bone of all the pre-conceived and fabricated ideas of whom I had always thought I was. I wasn’t any of those. What I saw was challenging and alarming. A whole new world opened up. I had always thought I was a victim of circumstances beyond my control, which to my shame, I had always unknowingly relished as a means to gain attention and sympathy. I didn’t like that person any longer. Seeing these and other faults (many) laid bare, I could hardly keep on looking. From deep inside I ‘heard’ a voice telling me why I had resorted to over exaggerating, feeling sorry for myself etc., and it said “Because you need real, enduring love”. “So why can’t I find this love - it always eludes me?” “Because you do not love yourself”. “Why can’t I love myself?” “Because you have believed a lie since childhood, and until now, you have been unaware of this”. “So what can I do to break free?” “Forgive your past and it’s lies and walk tall, and learn to love yourself. Cease lying, feeling bitter and revengeful - get rid of your self pity and start caring for others with no regard to reward”. It’s not been easy, but the more I practice this, the more I make some steps forward. Changed my life.

I have no idea why that eccentric psychologist liked me. Anyway, so I went to prison in this Sherlock Holmes cape.

I knew, even before I was aware of this lecture, that Peterson had gone through a spiritual awakening. It is not only his depth of insight that points to that but also that particular something about the way he looks and talks... he'd been in the dark place, there is the umistakeable hue of suffering around him which has, thankfully in his case, brought out some amazing jewels of wisdom from the depths and we are all richer for it. Thank you for sharing this with us Mr Peterson.

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” -Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Alan Watts has a great speech on embracing your dark side to find out who you truly are. Not in an evil way, but rather, to understand both sides of your psyche

"Stop saying things that make you weak" lightning bolt.

He describing being conscience of consciousness.

When this split happens, you're no longer scared of letting your mind go. You become comfortable being on your own doing what truly feels worth it to you. You start preferring solitude and skip the small talk whenever you meet people. At least this is how I describe what has happened to me since the last two months. Your thoughts are welcome :)

Beautifully said. The search for the core self is found by freeing ourselves from our own ignorance and dishonesty in how we see ourselves.

Beautiful, I know exactly what Jordan Peterson talks about when he says "I began to notice and observe when I said something, when it either made me feel alive or made me fall apart". That's very useful.

My take is this... In the process of spiritual awakening, you will largely find what you seek. Not everyone is seeking the same thing, so the experience varies. If we seek peace, we generally find it. If we seek clarity, it comes. If we desire understanding, we find it. But each experience is firstly our own. We can share it with others, but we can't say to them, "This is what you will find" or "This is the way it is". They will discover what they are meant to discover, and you what you are meant.

I had a similar experience in college. I saw myself talking and realized I was just making noise but saying nothing. So I shut my mouth. I didn’t talk for a year. I listened a lot. When I talked again I found myself responding. In dialogue with the world. It is a good practice to spend time listening. .

I like that he isn't afraid to show that he's struggling to put into words what he's thinking or experiencing.