[Caveat about Jordan Peterson – 2/14/18. I was very enthusiastic about Peterson before he became a combative public figure. I watched all the way through both his 2015 courses, ‘Maps of Meaning’ and ‘Personality and It’s Transformations’. I liked the way he combined a Jungian approach to mythology with evolutionary psychology and several other disciplines. I was entertaining Jung’s archetypes as a key to the depth we needed to access in our psyches to produce the New Story. But once he got into the public arena as an opponent of political correctness, his dogmatic tone and anti-left rants which had seemed an interesting part of the mix, tainted even the parts of his presentation I had enjoyed. This great piece from the Guardian explains why I feel it necessary to disavow him.]
seems to me that both Preston and Peterson are talking about the need to re-integrate what has been lost in the turn to, and dominance of, scientific rationalism that is de-valuing the accumulated wisdom of our species.This time I want to share Preston’s blog posted today, entitled The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. In it he examines the difference between command and mastery. He says “This is the real issue that lies at the heart of almost all critiques of Late Modern society...expressed in Carl Jung’s observation that ‘we have grown rich in knowledge but poor in wisdom’. Having command is one thing; but mastery is another.”
Scott PrestonIt is, as most everything he writes, pretty deep, with numerous references that only become clear with careful follow-up. But if you want to follow me down the rabbit hole, I recommend you give it a try. Maybe it will make perfect sense to you. Even if it doesn't, we can start to unravel this incredible ball of yarn together.
