The Mysterious - Akira the Don, Jordan Peterson

We don’t understand the world

Like, I do think the world is more like a musical masterpiece than it is like

anything else

And things are oddly connected

Now, you know, I know that sounds New Agey and it sounds metaphysical

I’m saying bluntly that this is speculative, right

I’m feeling out beyond the limits of my knowledge

I’m not willing to dismiss

The mysterious

The mysterious

I’m not willing to dismiss the mysterious

I’ve experienced the mysterious in a variety of different ways and it’s very

mysterious

Very mysterious

We certainly know that we’re bounded by ignorance there’s far more going on

than we know or can know

We do

The problem is when you start to speculate it’s a projection of your imagination

Now that’s not necessarily a bad thing because knowledge advances through

projection of imagination

But the problem is you can see yourself reflected back at you

And then it’s self-fulfilling, so you can see what you want

The mysterious

The mysterious

I’m not willing to dismiss the mysterious

I’ve experienced the mysterious in a variety of different ways and it’s very

mysterious

Very mysterious

The most ancient ideas we have about the nature of reality are predicated on a

certain presupposition

And the presupposition is this

There’s two fundamental modes of being that characterise reality

One is the absolute, and the absolute is the sum total of everything

So if you think about things in their most unbounded possible form

If you think of things in their infinite number of potential variations

You can think about that as one pole of reality

It appears classically that people have regarded their encounters with the

absolute

Which is all those multiple levels of being that are beyond your perceptual

capacity

As equivalent to an encounter with God

The mysterious

The mysterious

I’m not willing to dismiss the mysterious

I’ve experienced the mysterious in a variety of different ways and it’s very

mysterious

Very mysterious