Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

Jordan B. Peterson

Jun 2018 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Jordan B. Peterson

About this audiobook

Jordan B. Peterson's Maps of Meaning is now available for the first time as an audio download!

Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself? From the author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos comes a provocative hypothesis that explores the connection between what modern neuropsychology tells us about the brain and what rituals, myths, and religious stories have long narrated. A cutting-edge work that brings together neuropsychology, cognitive science, and Freudian and Jungian approaches to mythology and narrative, Maps of Meaning presents a rich theory that makes the wisdom and meaning of myth accessible to the critical modern mind.

Includes a PDF of Images from the Book.

Ratings and reviews

incredible doesn't being to describe this audiobook. Concepts discussed in the first section were the hardest to analyze, personally. Final section was the most meaningful in terms of integrating the topics into personal experience, again for me personally.

when you're asked who's the smartest man on earth you will look at the IQ's of all the historic legends and say Tesla or Einstein but in this modern world I take Jordan B Peterson as one of the greatest minds of this world because there's nothing more genius than knowing how to communicate not to the simple minded when he's sitting down on the biggest TV shows but talking to us sitting at home listening and reading and it's so inspiring knowing that there's hope ❤️ with love to the Author Johnwin T. Miles

JBP joins together with theology, evolution and psicology in an astonishing way that makes it look self evident. Totally recommend if any of the topics is of your interest.

About the author

JORDAN B. PETERSON is a Canadian clinical psychologist, self-help writer, cultural critic, and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. His main areas of study are in abnormal, social, and personality psychology, with a particular interest in the psychology of religious and ideological belief, and the assessment and improvement of personality and performance.

Peterson grew up in Fairview, Alberta. He earned a B.A. degree in political science in 1982 and a degree in psychology in 1984, both from the University of Alberta, and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from McGill University in 1991. He remained at McGill as a post-doctoral fellow for two years before moving to Massachusetts, where he worked as an assistant and an associate professor in the psychology department at Harvard University. In 1998, he moved to the University of Toronto as a full professor. He authored Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief in 1999, a work in which examined several academic fields to describe the structure of systems of beliefs and myths, their role in the regulation of emotion, creation of meaning, and motivation for genocide.