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David Chapman

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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 24 May 2018
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      The three jobs of a Wise Old Man. (Numbered for Kegan stages, of course!)pic.twitter.com/jRd5RBgfVO

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 24 May 2018
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      Talk in the marketplace is that @jordanbpeterson is doing job #3 well for some. I’m doing an amateurish job of #4 because qualified wizards have gotten scarce. Neither of us is old enough to do job #5. You could try Robert Bly.

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        2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 24 May 2018
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          Unpacking this fairy tale: The quest that takes you from 3 to 4 vanquishes chaotic emotionalism. You need magical weapons for that: methods of systematic rationality and self-discipline.

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        3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 24 May 2018
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          The Quest for Rational Self-Authorship is not easy. Most heros need a mentor to show them how to wield the flaming sword, and to sketch the way through the dark wood. You also need inspiration & assurance: a “holding environment” (Kegan’s term) of brave knights at a round table.

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        4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 24 May 2018
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          The Quest from 4 to 5 travels through nebulosity: swirling fog in which half-seen monstrous forms loom. The Chaos Dragon you thought you slew reappears and taunts you. You realize she has been dwelling invisible in your Castle of Rationality, and laughing behind your back.

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        5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 24 May 2018
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          “Turning points in the tale” are the stage transitions… I was alluding particularly to the 4.5 crisis of nihilism, in which you may well be eaten by the Chaos Dragon.

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        6. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 24 May 2018
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          The shape-shifting Chaos Dragon becomes an ogress, a vampire, the Himalayas, the night sky, and then appears to you as the Goddess Prajñaparamita, incarnation of Cosmic Emptiness and Wisdom. She whispers words in your ear as you make love. You can never quite remember them afterpic.twitter.com/fp8hBix8MI

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        7. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 24 May 2018
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          When you wake, she is gone. “Where?” you ask the Wise Old Man, distraught. “She is no other than the nature of your own mind.” What?? “Also, that thunderclap we just heard… Do you see the irises by the stream?” How useless… there is still far to go. In a thunderstorm.pic.twitter.com/TZd18syyYd

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        2. will minshew‏ @wminshew 24 May 2018
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          Replying to @Meaningness @jordanbpeterson

          why aren't you old enough for #5? I don't think I agree with that statement

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        3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 24 May 2018
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          Replying to @wminshew @jordanbpeterson

          I mostly don’t understand that phase. (There’s a lot I don’t understand about the middle one, too. I’m seriously not qualified, but hardly anyone else is trying, so …)

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        2. 金賢宮‏ @ChadworthKim 24 May 2018
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          Sir, I'd really like to get into studying and talking and thinking about these types of ideas and concepts at a high level. Is there an academic path for something like this? Just keep reading books? Find a community?

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