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A Sense-Making Odyssey, Part 2: Jordan Peterson, John Vervaeke & Jordan Hall
🕑 Added 2025-09-24 21:31:08 +0000 UTCMatt and Chris once again take up their oars and plunge deeper into the recursive whirlpools of contemporary sensemaking. Picking up where Part 1 left off, having grappled with conscience, touchstones, hierarchies, and normativity, we return to the sensemaking labyrinth to see just how many more words and concepts the combined powers of Peterson, Vervaeke, and Hall can stretch to breaking point.
This second leg of the voyage allows us to chart more of the universal sensemaking grammar, with its biblical scaffolding, liberal use of metaphors, and frequent exhortations to ascend Jacob’s ladder. But alongside Peterson's predictable biblical musings, you will also hear John Vervaeke unveil how finite transcendence connects to inexhaustible intelligibility, while Jordan Hall explains that even silence can be a form of sensemaking.
Expect dream ropes and ecological psychology refashioned for mystical ascent, Augustine rediscovered through Plato, and culture reframed as an alcoholic parent. The discussion also detours into atheists and their Luciferian egos, the sacred role of play, and the curious conviction that profound revelations can be drawn from childhood disappointments at McDonald’s and grandfather's complaining about Nixonian duplicity
So join us for the final leg of the Sensemaking Odyssey. Sharpen your mind, get ready to traverse through 3D space, and prepare for the Logos in the context of listening to a podcast.
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saudadiste
I laughed like hell when Matt & Chris each said to the other at one point "oh my God, you're a sensemaker!" when they thought the other was making associative leaps or being too convoluted in a response 😂
Linda Sears
I guess I must be part sensemaker because I enjoyed every minute of this! Hearing Matt bring his psychology knowledge and Chris bring his anthropology and religious knowledge to what these three were talking about is helpful because I can see where the ideas they are playing with come from and where they don’t cohere with reality or evidence. I tend to be a synthetic thinker as opposed to an analytical one, so I get the appeal of these three. However, they take synthetic thinking too far, and it seems like the more perspectives they add, the more intellectually smooshy it gets as they try to reconcile their different positions into one master paradigm. Anyway, listening to this makes me reflect on my own sensemaker ways. Thanks!
