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It’s a Romanian name ❤

Mircea Eliade is considered culturally significant in modern and contemporary Romania. Internationally, he is mostly known for his pioneering work in the history of religions; in his country of origin he is usually reached at through his works of fiction many of which are still part of the curriculum for Romanian literature studied in public schools.

Alternative, more grounded explanation is that the themes are similar because there is a common, relatively recent origin for all people groups. The collective unconscious is evolutionary special pleading, like biological convergent evolution is special pleading, both directly contradicting the central premise that similarities only occur by decent with modification. Like the snake eating its tail, this system of thought requires circular contradiction to imitate a perpetual system. The snake dies in fairly short order

Also, this is a very thorough and well-made video. Thank you!

So crazy I just watched a video on white blood cells and had this question so I thought I’d search it and this is the only video I found on this topic. Crazy that you only posted in a month ago. I guess everything is connected. 💜✌🏽😌

Why do we assume there was no consciousness?????

Thomas, your final words got me to thinking about how “religious” ideas manifest in the modern world in secular dimensions like politics and science. Political groups have ideas and platforms that must be adhered to by members (=doctrines, creeds) and they have end goals in mind (=eschatology). When I read Marx, he sounds like an apocalyptic prophet looking for the dawn of a new age, yet God is missing from the agenda. Science also has its axioms and beliefs that must be approved if you want to be a part of the academy. Scientists that reject evolution, for instance, are “excommunicated” and not published or granted positions in universities. The scientific credo must be endorsed if a scholar wants to play the game. Although, of course, traditional religion is still with us, the religious ideas still seem to surface even in the “profane” realm: humans appear to be wired for a religious impulse.

I read this book (just volume 1) in my program at Drew University in the 1980s in a course on ancient Near Eastern religion. I have been thinking about revisiting it lately. Thanks for the needed encouragement to approach the task!

Romanian name and the correct name is simply "History of religions"

Very interesting Thomas, thanks for the useful synopsis! It was interesting to me to compare this theory to The Bock Saga, which I've been enjoying listening to. The best ones are from Ior Bock himself, like the ones recorded at HumanUniversity I'd be interested to hear what you think of it

Heck ya GET SOME! Great short video on your matters of the mind!

Equating hazing and rites of passage was a detriment to society.

I feel like if people are offended when you ask them about their own opinion, it's likely because they haven't thought it through themselves. (But admittedly I'm not above the occasional "trap" question.)

Impressive and very nice commentary. Thank you. These books are on my radar. So much to read. Currently reading William James “Pragmatism” and having difficult time making heads and tails of what he’s saying. I assume later second reading will make more sense. Also planning on making serious go at “Gödel Escher Bach.” Book staring at me from bookshelf for too long; I feel its pull. Again, thanks for your commentary and look forward to more!

I like it!

Added to the list.

I just read Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. I think he provides great exposure to the different functions and disorders of the brain. A perfect read for anyone interested in neuro-psych. Anyways, good review(although I only watched part of it), Ill have to add The Master and his Emissary to my list!

Thank you for this, I appreciate the quick and clear explanation ❤ 🇮🇱🇦🇺

So valid comparison

Mircea Eliade is not a French name 😂 he was Romanian

The growing antisemitism in America (and world broadly) is really terrifying!! 🙏🏿

Cal Newport’s “Deep Work” talks about strategies to organize life and time schedule to allow for large blocks of study/work times and get into productive flow state

Love the idea of a JBP Great Books book group!

I've been working through Jordan's _Maps of Meaning_ and decided around p.150 that I would read _The Great Mother_ before continuing. A very eye opening read, however I wish I read _Origins and History of Consciousness_ first. Anyways, you seem to have a pretty firm grip on the concepts explored in the book; kudos!

Hi Thomas, it’s a great thing to find your new upload here today. Having some ongoing situations (as described previously) and involves cognitive decline, and self-story-telling, both positive and negative.

"Let's talk mythology" from a guy defined like a greek hero. Your opinion holds more weight now.

You have such a pleasant way of explaining difficult things! I am not particularly interested in all the recommended books by Peterson but you make it sound so interesting! I am subscribed!🙏🏼✌🏼

Great video, great channel.

Patriarchy is a natural extension of a matriarchy, where one can not exist without the other as each follows the other throughout the course of all eternity. Spiritually speaking (gender and race aside), matriarchy can begin with an understanding of the cyclical nature of reality (God). Represented by the snake in many creation myths, the living cycle has a trinity of a beginning (head), a middle and end (tail). As above so below, the sexes were created in the image of God's cyclical nature where Mother is the head and opening to all beginnings and Father holds the tail to all endings (through which the sowing of seeds allow for the next great matriarchal rebirth).The joining of the two (symbolized by the Ouroborus or the marriage ring) is the sacred union needed in assuring the creation and continuation of new life cycles. To speak of the present day God as "Our Father" is simply an admission to our collective positioning within the bigger cycle. As all mothers have direct experience with the creator quality of birthing, so is the direct experience of rebirthing the divinity within (baptism) belong to that which is spiritually matriarchal. (John 3, verse 3-8). Sekhmet statues (ancient Egyptian) carry most of their weight in symbolic memory of what was a mother culture dedicated to the direct experience of baptism. As the leg shaped hairlocks extend from maternal breasts to the womb of rebirth, the lioness's head proportions are such that they highlight the bust of a second animal figure. The Lioness's ears as eyes and eyes as nose (nostrils) brings to life the figure of a reptile. 'Neath the halo headress of the solar egg, the lioness's egg fertilization process being internal (Set) and the reptile's egg fertilization process being external (Setting), such being key components to the safety of entering the trans-egoic or "born again" state. The life threatening fear associated with the predatory nature of a lion and/or crocodile encounter are reflective of the intense ego death experiences associated with the transpersonal awakening process. In spiritually matriarchal times, illumination could be seen as wearing the false beard (ancient Egyptian funerary "ego" death mask) as the high state of cyclical self knowing; high awareness of both our upper matriarchal half and our lower (later) patriarchal half (compared with a mini lower body replica, an "as above so below" tail end beard extension); in full recognition of her civilizational Underworld; her inevitable cyclical destiny. The male pharaoh wears his beard tapered in reverse, indicating a pointing upwards towards the patriarchal head, divine representative of God's tail end cycle. Mary's anointing and wiping of Jesus's feet with her hair can then be seen as "Head to tail" (toe) imagery as she descends her matriarchal head to his patriarchal feet, thus reenacting the high understanding of the divine cyclical process. (John 12, verse 3) To carry the Ankh (now the female symbol ♀️) was perhaps to symbolically carry that upper and lower understanding. As the upper matriarchal womb symbolised the fertile birthing of civilization, below, the now Christian cross is carried to place emphasis on the lower (later) "End Times" Father principle of the great cycle. Lord Ganesha, the elephant headed Hindu diety, displays a cyclical head to trunk symbolism and points to the Mother head of his matriarchal elephant society. Ganesha (like the elephant) wears God's cyclical nature on his face. A whole temple was dedicated to Hathor (ancient Egyptian diety), who is the matriarchal "Uterus" personified. th-cam.com/video/J0m0zJSEFK0/w-d-xo.html "See all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. when you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away. See everything as Mother and you will know God." - Neem Karoli Baba "My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother." - Proverbs 6 : 20

Important stuff. I like your connections to different ideas. The part about weakness vs. Strength and be like water reminded me of the work of Nassim Taleb. He is an economist and his message is essentially that an economic mechanism cannot sustainably stay strong and make money always. He says your should be willing to lose money consistantly, and THEN to win in one important period. So according to him it is important to embrace being weak in areas you can be. It is more than that but generally. Thank you

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Creation is divine.

Thank you for your reviews, sharing your experiences, and the connections you made.

Hello Thomas! I am glad to see you reading again Mircea Eliade.

I think Newtons third law applies here, like so many other things socially speaking in this country and the wider world. "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction". Apart from Newtons 3rd law, the Bible is clear. You reap what you sow. This may take one hour, day, month or ones own life time to see come about. Blowback is another term that many will be familiar with. I heard the writer today on the Charlie Kirk show and I was impressed with his ability to put into words what this whole matter is about. But it has roots and it's not CRT. Like the man said, CRT is the key lock. Lets continue. The breaking down of the American mind is old news and started with communism in America. The Left fostered feminism across the board in the 60s-70s. That was the road to destroying the American masculine male and replacing him with Beta males, subservient to them...the left also launched a anti truth campaign through promoting the "idea" that your truth is subjective and only true to you while someone else's truth was entirely something else. No judging here, but these are the facts of the chronology of this entire disaster. I have been long awaiting to see how this would effect the gay community and others who rode somewhat on the coat tails of others to champion their own cause. Now you see it is not looking so good, this queer thing, which many see as a gay recruitment tool and it appears to be working very well. Look up we are coming for your children video. They make no excuses and confirm that is the agenda. My personal stance has always been, you do what you do and I'll do what I do, just do not force your agenda on me or mine. You see, they are forcing an agenda, sick, evil and twisted onto children and this is unforgiveable. May the Lord Jesus have mercy on those who cause harm to children in any form or fashion. Husband of 40 years (male-female-mixed race), father of 3 (mixed race), grandfather of 4. I have a voice too. Peace to you all.

The Motte and Bailey tactic is extremely effective.

Another great review I'll have to check it out.

Thank you for the great video! I am have been going through some of the books from Jordan Petersons "Philosophy/Literature" section on his recommended books page. I was wondering if this is the book you would recommend to read first out of his "Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry" section or if there is another book from that section that you want to read first. Thanks again, much love from Norway! :)

Thanks I am buying this book and was looking for an explanation re buying it. I am reading on Lilith the archetype and digging deeper!

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This book was the first one I read that related to the Holocaust phenomenon. Truly the power of the human mind is inestimable!

Hi Thomas, I'm so glad I discovered your channel. Mircea Eliade is my favorite author. I encourage you to read his memoirs and his novels as well. You will fall in love instantly. Many greetings from Romania, the country of Mircea Eliade's heart. Keep going. You're doing a great work!

Paraphrasing Eliade> In this Century[20th]the Sacred is under Attack! [How many Christians were killed in Russia by the communists?]

Good gracious, that is a marvellous line. I've never before heard the line "A fool can put on his own coat better than a wise man can do it for him." This leads to many new thoughts.

Great quality, great review, very good explanation 👌

Hi Thomas, I’m glad you uploaded this video today. Your channel has got me thinking, because I began my channel doing something similar, also different than yourself. For instance, I have a video on Answer to Job and one on Sermon on the Mount, both inspired by Jordan Peterson. Also more, including one unique vid of Peterson and Sunny Bergman at an event. Your video series is fantastic, and I have a few questions. The book about Thomas Sowell, can you give more details about it?? Thank you for your book reviews. Would love to talk more.

5:45 this is the first video ive seen on this book and this past month I've found a rabbit hole that connects my scientific education to spiritual philosophy when i was trying to figure out how psychedelics truly work. In a way a lack of imagination, creativity and faith on each other truly separates and hides possible turth right in front of you. I don't just have a "different world view" but a different philosophy of reality at the moment that i can almost explain everything with math and spirituality. The yin yang symbol is a key symbol that has helped solidify my ideas, but there is a third part not shown (maybe on purpose?) in the yin yang symbol. Its a riddle in symbol/picture form of reality. It took me 2 weeks to organize/grow my ideas to get to this point but a simple explanation is reality creates itself through the power of imagination and laws of attraction. Connection is the key to combining nothingness and somethingness... You actually are explaining some of my own thoughts as I type... Consciousness is almost the evolution of the universe/god sensing itself and in a way the universe created itself or an insensible/imaginary master of physics/science (math... A lot of my ideas come back to proving simulation by the singularity, but the singularity saved itself with choas and randomness but eventually learned to control it to take the shape of physical reality). Controlling randomness/imagination (choas control) is key to life/conscience... New life solves infinity in the simulation of life. The human race against time and death. Conscience is almost like mathematical nirvana contained with the ability?/curse? of free will. Depends on your point of view "i think therefore i am"

Cheers. I found your post looking for JBP speaking on Answers to Job. I was surprised to not find one? If anyone has a link or know where he discusses the book. He has mentioned Aion. I love the book(anything Jung tbh), so was surprised he hasn't spoke on it many times.

I find it kind of ironic that at one point abortion was not a priority with white christians, it was a catholic problem. It is more of a mess now with each state making its own rules on abortion. Just imagine if the federal government let each state determine the rights of blacks. It is more of a BANANA republic now then ever before!

Any plans on reviewing The End of Race Politics by Coleman Hughes? It looks promising and comes out tomorrow.