Jim talks with Hanzi Freinacht about his book 12 Commandments: For Extraordinary People to Master Ordinary Life. They discuss the book as a response to Jordan Peterson & his "12 rules" books, metamodernism, fostering sober crazy people, magical thinking in highly developed personalities, integrations of science & spirituality, stabilizing higher phenomenological states, lower average states as a phenomenon of late-stage Game A, living in a mess moderately, fucking like a beast, sincere irony, quitting, doing the walk of shame, reverse death therapy, Carl Roger's idea of congruence, healing with justice, burning your maps, the pernicious belief that our maps are complete, killing your guru & finding the others, Jung's golden shadow, playing for forgiveness, and much more.

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12 Commandments: For Extraordinary People to Master Ordinary Life, by Hanzi Freinacht
JRS EP36 - Hanzi Freinacht on Metamodernism
JRS EP53 - Hanzi Freinacht on the Nordic Ideology
JRS EP82 - Hanzi Freinacht on Building a Metamodern Future

JRS EP 172 - Brendan Graham Dempsey on Emergentism

JRS EP 170 - John Vervaeke and Jordan Hall on The Religion That Is Not a Religion

JRS EP143 - John Vervaeke Part 1: Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

Hanzi Freinacht is a political philosopher, historian and sociologist, author of The Listening Society, Nordic Ideology, and the upcoming books The 6 Hidden Patterns of History and Outcompeting Capitalism. Much of his time is spent alone in the Swiss Alps.