Burning Phoenix Podcast

We're looking at Episode 4 in Jordan Peterson's Exodus series, and how Nietzsche's attack on morality is problematic - with his Hubris of trying to transgress Transcendent Morality as a whole.

We'll also look at an interesting formative experience in Dostoevsky's young life.

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We've spent a few days testing out the new ChatGPT, a creative and highly intelligent program/chatbot that is at times stunning, and at times plain wrong.

It also gave us a few jokes and a rewriting of Genesis in Trump's speaking Style!

In this episode we'll look at the Third Episode of the Peterson's Exodus Series, and also the opening of the new Fourth Volume of John Strickland's history work "Paradise and Utopia" - about Wagner, Nietzsche, and the striving towards the total transgression of moral boundaries.

And a plug for a Substack on Jung, symbolism and Active Imagination by our friend Sean Eckmann: mythicjourneys.substack.com

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A look at the new series about Exodus from Dr. Jordan B. Peterson (16 episodes for Part I), plus a few excerpts from "The Life of Moses" by St. Gregory of Nyssa. 

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Why the dimension or perspective of an Immaterial or Transcendent Reality is important, not as a "that which we yet don't know", but a mysterious aspect of Being and the Cosmos. 

It is also instrumental for a balanced thinking, and to avoid the excesses of the left brain hemisphere.

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Looking at private money into US elections, and the excesses of the Catholic Church in 1054-1302.

We'll also look at the idea of fighting the mythological monster Hydra, and aiming at the belly and not endlessly cutting off its heads, as Dante warns against to the Holy German Emperor in 1311. A similar dynamic and approach might be relevant for private money influences today.

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Thoughts on the rise of China, now soon the size of the US economy, and within this decade (2020s) most likely becoming the biggest economy on the Planet. Their economy is already 60x bigger in the last 40 years. And a global economic supremacy for China is nothing new, it has already happened twice before in the earlier Tang and Ming Dynasties.

We might be moving towards a sort of Yin-Yang World Governance now with China and the US/West, at least in the short/medium term. With two asymmetrical philosophies and systems, hopefully finding a constructive balance and harmony.

Plus, a book recommendation:

"When China Rules the World", by Martin Jacques.

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Five points about how to mentally and practically prepare - if a bigger metaphorical Flood is indeed coming soon in America now in 2022/23, and to some extent in parts of Europe.

1. Start building an Ark, immediately - with solid knowledge. It might be urgent. What to put in the Ark? The timeless parts of the Tradition, with Greek Myth and Philosophy, and/or f.ex. Dante's Divine Comedy, which is very solid.

2. Thinking: Start thinking critically, and not just what "feels good". There are many dilemmas and ambiguous aspects of the world.

3. Attitude: By positive - by keeping the long view.

4. Stay away from private media. It is currently mostly designed to fragment your psyche, and keep you worried and addicted. It disintegrates your mind over time.

5. Know that you can play a positive part, if you have a stable foundation, a solid Ark, and you can help other people by example. And much better times, are very likely to lay right beyond this.

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Three practical activities that could start today:

1. Spend time in nature.

2. Reduce online time drastically.

3. One of these: Play an instrument for 20 minutes. Read and contemplate old mythology and symbolism. Do 20 minutes of Tai Chi. Do something creative like writing a poem, a little story, make a painting, or compose a song.

All of which stimulates the right brain hemisphere, and could start a path to a more balanced Renaissance Mind outlook, and experience of life.

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Looking at parallels between modern day America and the 13th century powerful City-State of Florence.

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