modern offshoots of abrahamism have left a fraction of the mlechCha elite with a problem of robustness. They look particularly bankrupt& flaccid before Mohammad's strain of meme. In this void it looked as quiverful-types might have expanded in the big mlechChaland. But Peterson
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& his cohorts, if the movement survives the internal conflicts, might offer an alternative framework for the elites. This would be an expansively "digesting" Abrahamism which will incorporate a lot into its framework from other systems and market it as its own. These might also
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generally strengthen this strain of Abrahamism at the intellectual level though it is as yet unclear if it might offer it any fertility advantage. It would be interesting to see what parallels such movements might have in the H world and what quality they comparatively possess
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He seems sympathetic to Bauddhamata as well. Also curious how much Jungian stuff is Hindu derived. He'd potentially be open to acknowledging it.
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Yes Peterson seems to be grounded deeply in Jung, as J himself admitted he was interested in combining the biological and the religious. Jung did admit in his writings the influence of his travel to the desh where he nearly died. He says that Hindu philosophical ideas on
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consciousness (specifically Atman as opposed to bauddha anAtman) where important for psychology as he understood. But for H like me I can access these in original from the root sources and tradition hence the versions filtering through the intuitive but technically unsound lens
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of Jung look jejune. However, it does seem these ideas transmitted by Jung have had influence on Peterson but are now placed by him in an Abrahamistic framework though as you say in the talk I heard he did acknowledge the buddha. I don't know if the deeper source of Jung's ideas
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Arya what should a westernized H like me read to get a taste of the original?
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V.difficult to give you a crisp answer simply because somethings are acquired only be reading a lot of stuff often in original. It again depends on you interest: a lot of philosophy can be dry. But the simple ans I'd give is read the mahAbharata: say Ganguli's translation
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