The Sacred & The Profane

In our introductory lecture, Dr. Peterson begins our exploration of Mircea Eliade’s The Sacred and the Profane, arguing that human consciousness is shaped by narratives rooted in t...

In lecture two, Dr. Peterson investigates the relationship between sacred and profane space, hierarchies of meaning, and the phenomenology of religious experience through the work...

In lecture three, Dr. Peterson presents the sacred center point—the foundational principle around which psychological integration, social order, and meaningful perception take shap...

In lecture four, we consider Mircea Eliade's concept of sacred space and how traditional societies transform chaos into cosmos through ritual, orientation, and sacrifice. We examin...

In lecture five, we study how human perceptions act as low-resolution representations of reality that inevitably collapse when confronted with unexpected complexity. Drawing on Eli...

In lecture six, we learn about Mircea Eliade's distinction between sacred and profane time, examining how sacred time captures eternal, recurring patterns beneath surface events. T...

In lecture seven, Dr. Peterson discusses the recurring nature of humanity's crisis of meaning, and elucidates Eliade's insight that the "death of God" announced by Nietzsche is not...

In our eighth and final lecture, Dr. Peterson explores the intersection of religious symbolism, psychological development, and human meaning-making, examining how modern secular so...

In the Question & Answer session, Dr. Peterson addresses student questions about memory, narrative structure, and cultural cohesion, exploring how shared stories shape individual i...