The meaning behind Harry Potter | Jordan B Peterson

Listening to Jordan Peterson reminds me that knowledge is not a pile of facts to be remembered, but a vast web of interrelated truths. Every point in the topic reminds him of something related to that point that reinforces it.

Stephen King said something like this in relation to Harry Potter: "Harry Potter is a story about finding who you are, taking on challenges, and making friends who no matter what will be there to help guide you to happiness... Twilight is a book about how important it is to have a boyfriend."

I'm 37 years old and I've found life really tough. I've been listening to Jordan's words for 2 years. In that time I feel my life has improved greatly and I now almost don't recognize myself. I've never been happier or stronger mentally. I owe the man so much.

This made me realize as to how perfect it was that everytime Harry Potter and the crew helped the whole school from colapsying, they had to break some rules. This goes to show how sometimes you have to go outside the box to produce change. Even Hermione had to swallow that fact, after she almost got killed by a troll, and she would've died without Harry and Ron disobeying the rules.

The way he is able to link such abstract concepts together in a beautiful way is just mind-blowing.

One month sober today from Alcohol. Clicked on this because Harry Potter. Then he hit's me over the head at the end. Damn!

Harry Potter's a rule breaker. But in other interviews he says Harry only breaks rules WHEN NECESSARY. So not really disobedient just capable of using his own discernment of the rules, to see if they apply to his situation. And what rules does he break. Yr1 he and Ron go looking for Hermione instead of heading back to Griff' tower, saves her life. Don't go to the 3rd floor, it's dangerous, u might Die! But they all go and manage to save the day. Don't go in the forbidden forest, it's dangerous, u might Die! And that's just yr 1! All the rules he breaks r ones put in place to keep the kids safe. Sooooooo.... U can't grow spiritually if always kept safe. Break away from the safe spaces, strike out on ur own track down ur demons, challenge them and keep challenging them until u prevail.

He’s the type of professor where you barely need to take notes because he’s so engaging you really just need to list the discussion topics and you remember the lectures and discussions themselves

“We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on... that’s who we really are.”

A major part of the story for me was understanding the voldemort part in harry is the negative part that is in all of us. When it goes unchecked it will continue to torture your mind, filling you with anger, negativity, and isolation from your friends. It will continue to gain strength until you feel so bad that you can accept that you have to face it. Things have to get so bad that you no longer fear death. When you truly face it you are able to kill this part of you. Then re-emerging free from it. Like a dark night of the soul experience.

That thumbnail makes Jordan look like The Joker

What I appreciate about him is that he doesn't give a prepared speech, but explores ideas throughout the speech, which gives students to think it themselves

Forget cult, they're not even remote fans of Harry Potter or they would know that if you look directly at a Basiliks you die not freeze..You freeze or get petrified only if you look at the eyes of the Basilisk indirectly.

As a Veteran who has faced my own ability to do "great harm", Jordan's statement about that hit me like a ton of bricks... I've though about exactly that many times, but I didn't realize that I wasn't the only person who thought about it. I feel like I've just been hit by a freight train. I honestly don't know whether to lash out or curl up in a ball and cry. PTSD is not a fun thing to deal with.

“You’re all in a cult!” students laugh nervously “No, you are!!”

Listening to Jordan Peterson paraphrasing Harry Potter is like listening to my Grandmother rhyme Snoop Dogg. Hard not to like.

"The chaos that's under us right now will come to the surface" - something small shifts, something fragile breaks, and all law order and civilization falls apart and is replaced by the chaos of lawlessness and venality. Truthful words of our times.

Strange listening to somebody officially talking about Harry Potter. I found another analogy in it: the Patronus... how the psychologist needs to be become the patronus for the client to lead him/her through the dark forest of fears which is full of bad past memories causing anxiety and dissociation (dementors). I told this to my psychologist, my very own patronus deer. I was very grateful to him.

“As long as the lights are on, everyone’s fed, the sewage works, there can be some relative peace. But if any of those things stopped working, we would fall into chaos. And it could at any time, because it’s a miracle any of these things work at all.”

How the hell can you turn up late to a JP lecture, shit if I had the opportunity to see JP lecture in person I’d arrive the week before and camp out.