12 rules for life audiobook chapters
Order, by contrast, is explored territory. And Chaos is freedom, dreadful freedom, too. It’s the same potential from which we, made in that Image, call forth the novel and ever-changing moments of our lives.
Chaos is also the formless potential from which the God of Genesis 1 called forth order using language at the beginning of time. It is, in short, all those things and situations we neither know nor understand.
Chaos is where we are when we don’t know where we are, and what we are doing when we don’t know what we are doing. It’s the underworld of fairytale and myth, where the dragon and the gold it guards eternally co-exist. It’s the place you end up when things fall apart when your dreams die, your career collapses, or your marriage ends. Chaos is the despair and horror you feel when you have been profoundly betrayed. It’s the foreigner, the stranger, the member of another gang, the rustle in the bushes in the night-time, the monster under the bed, the hidden anger of your mother, and the sickness of your child. Chaos is what extends, eternally and without limit, beyond the boundaries of all states, all ideas, and all disciplines. It is proper understanding of the third that allows us the only real way out. It is our eternal subjugation to the first two that makes us doubt the validity of existence- that makes us throw up our hands in despair, and fail to care for ourselves properly. The third (as there are three) is the process that mediates between the two, which appears identical to what modern people call consciousness. These are the necessary elements whose interactions define drama and fiction. However, the world of experience has primal constituents, as well. The scientific world of matter can be reduced, in some sense, to its fundamental constituent elements: molecules, atoms, even quarks. The Domain, Not of Matter, but of What Matters With that bolded excerpt being inside the Audible audiobook 30 minutes through Chapter 10. It is part of “Chapter 10: Be Precise in Your Speech”. One of the excerpts, which I’ve marked in bold, seems to be the story you are remembering. If you search 12 Rules for Life for “cat”, most of what appears is entries within “Rule 12: Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street”, which is a chapter about turning everyday fears and inaction into delights, as something to live for in this world of pain - Elon Musk answers the “why get up in the morning?” question by making humanity spacefaring - Peterson answers it by petting cats.īelow are the relevant excerpts that I found that seemed relevant (looking for “cat” and “monster”). Kindle books have Whispersync with their Audible Audiobooks, so one can search for a term in the kindle book, then Audible will ask if you want to go to that position. Hi Antidote for Chaos, do you mean Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life book, that has the subtitle Antidote to Chaos. Does anyone know where I can find this story? It would be much appreciated if you could point me in the right direction.
However, the cat grows and grows into a being large enough to fill the house (like a monster?) - thought it almost sounded like elephant in the room. The inhabitants of the house behave as if it doesn’t exist. The way I remember the story is that there was a cat that was sitting on a bed in a house. I have every intention of listening to the audible book but it could take hours to get to that bit and I would so LOVE to know now. I keep thinking about the story because it summed up a situation in my childhood. I walked into the room a couple of weeks ago and heard an intriguing story by JBP that really resonated with me but we can’t remember where it is in the book. My husband has downloaded the ‘12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos’ audible book and has been listening to it. Myself and my husband recently went to the Jordan Peterson event in Edinburgh and loved it.