One of the things that strikes me as being true is the notion that it is through tremendous suffering that people like him make their biggest realizations. Viktor Frankl made tremendous strikes in psychology by being in a Nazi camp. Jung IIRC waded his way through his own psychosis. Peterson as a clinician saw a lot of things but actually came to know the depths of tragedy first-hand - for better or worse. A trip to the underworld -- a katabasis must be followed by an anabasis. Without anabasis, an ascension, it is just death. One must down-go, before he can ascend.
I'm not sure if Christianity is strictly unidirectional and that the whole thing is "working down." Spinoza was a monist, which meant everything worked its way up. If all is categories and concepts, they can all be categorically and conceptually "worked up" towards one thing. That is, all conceptually merge towards One Entity. Heaven, on the other hand is everything on the other side of the One Entity and in the Christian story is compressed towards One Thing -- the one that came down from the Heavens. If we look at these conceptual maps as a pyramid, then the earthly things have a pyramid with one thing at the top, and the heavenly things have an upside down pyramid with one thing at the bottom. Where they touch is logically The Logos, isn't it? I think the Christian journey is to work the logic and the stories and participate in joining all earthly things to that single point.
One of the things that strikes me as being true is the notion that it is through tremendous suffering that people like him make their biggest realizations. Viktor Frankl made tremendous strikes in psychology by being in a Nazi camp. Jung IIRC waded his way through his own psychosis. Peterson as a clinician saw a lot of things but actually came to know the depths of tragedy first-hand - for better or worse. A trip to the underworld -- a katabasis must be followed by an anabasis. Without anabasis, an ascension, it is just death. One must down-go, before he can ascend.
I'm not sure if Christianity is strictly unidirectional and that the whole thing is "working down." Spinoza was a monist, which meant everything worked its way up. If all is categories and concepts, they can all be categorically and conceptually "worked up" towards one thing. That is, all conceptually merge towards One Entity. Heaven, on the other hand is everything on the other side of the One Entity and in the Christian story is compressed towards One Thing -- the one that came down from the Heavens. If we look at these conceptual maps as a pyramid, then the earthly things have a pyramid with one thing at the top, and the heavenly things have an upside down pyramid with one thing at the bottom. Where they touch is logically The Logos, isn't it? I think the Christian journey is to work the logic and the stories and participate in joining all earthly things to that single point.