• Name: Biblical Lecture Series
• Author: Jordan Peterson
• Type: #literature/lecture
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Notes¶

God is an attempted articulation of an underlying experience.

Sacrifice is an attempted articulation of an underlying experience.

Anger outbursts in the home are an attempted articulation of an underlying experience.

Religion is an attempted articulation of an underlying experience.

There is a difference between what we know and what we can articulate¶

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"There’s a very large amount that we don’t know about the structure of experience (about reality). We have our articulated representations of the world and outside of that, there are things we know absolutely nothing about. There’s a buffer between them, and those are things we sort of know something about. But we don’t know them in an articulated way. People can know things at one level, without being able to speak what they know at another. In some sense, the thoughts rise up from the body. They do that in moods, images, and actions. We have all sorts of ways that we understand, before we understand in a fully articulated manner.

If our articulated knowledge is out of sync with our dream, then we become dissociated internally. We think things we don’t act out, and we act out things we don’t dream. That produces a kind of sickness of the spirit. Its cure is something like an integrated system of belief and representation."