My soul is indestructible, and I am a mystic man who shall live forever... In Search Of The Philosopher's Stone.
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"The fact that the soul desires its own continued existence should, under all circumstances, make us suspicious concerning any opinion which the soul forms about its own immortality. For why should the facts of the world pay any heed to the feelings of the soul?"
- Rudolf S.
Hi, everybody.
I’m pleased to let you know that we’re going to release a lecture a week from my extensive tour archive, beginning this Sunday and then repeating every Sunday after that.
This allows me to do something interesting and useful while I’m otherwise incapacitated. My health is such at the moment that I can’t really return to podcasting or public lecturing. But we recorded these with the express intention of preparing them for release, and we’ve all determined that this is a very good time to do that.
So that’s what’s going to happen.
I hope you find them useful and compelling. They’ll be particularly attractive to those of you who liked my early YouTube work that was very lecture focused. It’s a return to my roots, I suppose, in some ways. And I’m as happy as I can be under the current circumstances, given my ill health, to be participating in this process and to have these lectures prepared for release.
Thanks a lot for your continued attention and support.
- Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
Jordan Peterson on how to easily overcome social anxiety:
1. Social anxiety is not shyness. When you walk into a social situation, your brain registers it as a dominance hierarchy that is judging you. A negative judgment means low status. Low status interferes with everything your biology cares about. You are not being irrational. You are being evaluated by something that feels like nature itself, and your nervous system knows it.
2. Telling an anxious person to stop thinking about themselves does not work. You cannot tell someone to stop thinking about something. They get caught in the loop. Stop thinking about a white elephant. white elephant. white elephant. The instruction makes it worse. The only way out is to give the brain something else to do.
3. The actual solution is to look at other people. not glance. Genuinely look. Watch their face. Track what they are thinking. The moment you focus outward, your automatic social mechanisms engage, and the awkwardness dissolves on its own. You cannot be socially calibrated and self-focused at the same time. Attention can only go in one direction.
4. When speaking to a group, never try to address the group. It does not exist as a thing you can talk to. Find one person, look at them directly, and talk to that person. They will reflect the entire room back to you because everyone is entrained to the same social signal. If you can talk to one person, you can talk to anyone.
5. The eye at the top of the pyramid, the thing the Egyptians worshipped as Horus, is attention itself. What you pay attention to determines everything. The most important thing to look at is whatever your instincts flag as slightly wrong or off. That is where the real information is. Your enemies are useful for the same reason. They will tell you things about yourself that nobody else will, and occasionally one of those things will be accurate.
@GoannaTail13@AntiFeminismAU Wow, so damn true, you know, the world evolve around the 'biological reaction' of 'a lone woman to feel uncomfortable with a strange man behind her,' and some how nature forgot to make room for a separate trail, fucking legions of retards.
@patrickanum It would be disingenuous to classify this as a hit piece. However, one wouldn't be wrong to see it as a shit show; it is, from a loose cannon, a self-indulgent nonentity who has nothing to say, but overestimates the garbage he spews day in, day out. Boy, shut the fuck up.
Jordan Peterson dropped some quietly brutal advice:
If people aren’t listening to you, stop talking.
Don’t cast pearls before swine. Pull back, watch what they actually do, and save your words for those who value them. Every time you keep offering yourself to people who reject it, you’re devaluing what you have to say.
Your time and energy are limited. Protecting them isn’t rude, it’s wise.
What’s your take, is pulling back from people who don’t listen one of the best life skills someone can learn?
@05ali_s05 When you are before greatness, or experiencing one of the gods at work, you have but one thing to do: freeze in awe and shed tears of gladness and privilege.