Biblical Series II: Genesis 1: Chaos & Order

Second lecture in Dr. Jordan Peterson’s Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories at Isabel Bader Theatre, Toronto. In this lecture, he presents Genesis 1, which presents the idea that a pre-existent cognitive structure (God the Father) uses the Logos, the Christian Word, the Second Person of the Trinity, to generate habitable order out of pre-cosmogonic chaos at the beginning of time. It is in that Image that Man and Woman are created -- indicating, perhaps, that it is (1) through speech that we participate in the creation of the cosmos of experience and (2) that what true speech creates is good. It is a predicate of Western culture that each individual partakes in some manner in the divine. This is the true significance of consciousness, which has a world-creating aspect.