Why this book? What are this series?

I have noticed that the self-development industry builds on making a “difficult book” into 100 watered-down-single-concept with cheap-inspirational-rhetoric bestsellers. This belief makes me think, “I want to learn about XYZ. What is the most in-depth book, from the world’s top renowned expert (or someone who has dedicated an enormous amount of time and effort to learning the subject) about XYZ?” And I get that one instead of looking in the top whatever list of most sold books. 

I also like to put it with this words, “The one who can read and understand the most in-depth (regardless of how complex) books wins”

One of these books is Maps Of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief. The title itself intimidates me intellectually, which I love. 

One of the main tasks I have as a life coach, hypnotherapist, and Self-actualization engineer is spot limiting beliefs, both my own and other people’s. Once they are in the spotlight, it is my task to actualize them. That’s why I want to read some of the most in-depth books about the subject.

Knowing about the author’s depth of thought and some of the reviews about the book, stating his complexity, I cannot avoid but feel insecure about being able to understand its contents. 

I got a copy of the audiobook and the eBook. You can buy Maps of meaning here (affiliate link that will help me a lot if you use). 

In this series, I will be writing my notes, resumes, and personal thoughts from every chapter of the book I go through. 

Maps of Meaning: “The architecture of belief” – Introduction

Jordan B Petterson talks about his intellectual upbringing, how he was first brought up in a Christian environment and how he couldn’t stand some of their dogmatic beliefs. He continues, explaining that he became interested in politics and wanted to become a politician or lawyer. 

Thanks to the Cold War and his not understanding how society was doing such atrocities as creating atomic bombs, he became, as far as I understood, a bit disillusioned with pursuing a career within politics. 

He began finding incongruences in his own beliefs, and at the same time, he was tormented by constant dreams of atomic cataclysms. He began searching for answers within Yung and Froid works.

Jordan explains that, at some point in his life, after he made a strong and intense mental exercise to imagine what would be to break the moral rules, to commit an atrocity such as murder. , and he understood that it’s wasn’t as difficult as he would think. Simply put, there is no significant difference between a murderer and any other person. 

He developed then an inner voice that would criticize any argument he would speak. “Oh, that’s not true” or “You don’t believe that.” He soon realized that the only way he could keep on talking was by only saying things that this critic would not oppose.

 He decided to study how humans and society create the believes that our world is made up. He mentions that there are two main ways in which we see the world. One is the world of things and is what science measures, a universe that is, filled up with things. 

Then there is the world of action, that is, the “drama.” The actions, the intentions, movement, needs, and that’s also where the most part of religious beliefs. This kind of thinking also leaves a place for mythology and myths. 

So it seems that the book is the conclusion of many years of study fueled by personal inner suffering, in other words, this book is promising.

Day 20 / 31 from the CREAZEE challenge

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