The following is a selected excerpt from Dr. Jordan B. Peterson’s new book “We Who Wrestle With God: Perceptions Of The Divine,” (November 19, 2024. Portfolio/Penguin Random House).
Foreshadowing: The Still, Small Voice
If we do and must see the world through a story; if the world reveals itself to us in the form of a story — what is that story? How do we properly characterize our aims, our most profound temptations, our most admirable upward strivings? What is relevant and what can and should be ignored? To what should we devote our costly attention? To what ends should we aim our action? What uncomfortable truth is our conscience eternally attempting to reveal? What is the appropriate hierarchy of value through which the world most productively, generously, and sustainably reveals itself? What, in other words, is the story, the true story of our lives — what is it, and what…
