#129: Hero's journey, Morphic Resonance, Global Phase Change and Jordan B. Peterson with Tom Morgan

Chiwi Journal

My guest today is Tom Morgan. Tom is the Director of Communications & Content at The KCP Group and writes a newsletter called The Attention Span. Tom has spent the last 16 years on Wall Street in research and data sales and focuses on consuming content and tries to extract actionable insights for busy people.

In this episode, we discussed:

1. What’s a trend of modernist holism? What’s the global phase change?
2. What’s Morphic Resonance? Do we have a solid explanation about coincidence and luck?
3. How to avoid falling into your echo chamber and be a mindful reader/listener in today’s world?
4. What do Joseph Cambell and Carl Jung’s mean about ‘follow your bliss’ or ‘follow your interests? How do we calculate our own hero journey?
5. The three stages of life on ego and surrender.
6. Jordan B. Peterson’s transition from books to books and the hemispheric breakdown from his book Maps of Meanings.
7. Why does ‘Hero Journey’ grips our attention all the time? When you revisit fairy tales as a grow-up, there is always a new meaning behind them.
8. What’s the symbolic meaning behind horned god?
9. The concept of the dragon as a symbol in western and eastern society
10. The hidden meanings behind Pinocchio
11. Why is it so important to calculate the emotional granularity for educating the next generation?
12. What’s the one thing that didn’t make sense to you before, but when you look back and it all connected?

Books & links mentioned in this episode

• The Matter With Things by Iain McGilchrist
• Infinite Loop Podcast | Curation in the Age of Information Abundance (EP.61) All you Need is Love? (EP.74)
• Insights from “The Matter with Things.” | KCP
• Morphic Resonance - Rupert Sheldrake
• Does Nature Have A Hidden Memory? - Rupert Sheldrake | Modern Wisdom Podcast 379
• The World’s Hidden Harmony
• This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio)
• Joseph Campbell -- Follow Your Bliss
• Marie-Louise von Franz
• The Dragon as a symbol finally explained - Jordan Peterson
• Beyond Order: Twelve More Rules for Life
• Maps Of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
• Biblical Series II: Genesis 1: Chaos & Order
• Nu Wa, Chinese Mythology Figure
• Emotional granularity
• The Midlife Unraveling by Brené Brown