Thursday, December 5, 2019

an unusual description of wholeness

by Jordan Peterson a clinical psychologist, professor of psychology, and psychological theoretician.

It reminds me of a well known Freud quote: ""the goal of psychoanalysis is to bring someone from the state of abject despair into the realm of common misery". I've always thought he may have had tongue in cheek saying it, but it also points the way one can be wholly in the world as it is, and be OK with it. That does not mean there are no longer ideals to fight for, rather to have them in the context of "this whole thing is bigger than us, there's only so much that can be done, and I'm OK with that".

The ground plane for wholeness perspective for me is "it created us, we did not create it".

Here's the vid:


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