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The Sacred & The Profane

Name: The Sacred & The Profane
Genre: Talk, Documentary
Released: 2026-09-17
Cast: Jordan B. Peterson

Talk Documentary

Premiered 2026-09-17 1 season 9 eps

In The Sacred and the Profane, an eight-hour course, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson explores Mircea Eliade’s ideas and the powerful ways sacred experience shapes human consciousness, meaning, and civilization itself. Drawing on comparative mythology, psychology, and religious traditions, the lectures reveal recurring archetypal patterns—from confronting chaos and undergoing transformation to establishing meaningful order—across cultures and history. Key themes include archetypal narratives, sacred centers and wilderness, hierarchies of meaning, the nature of recurring existential crises, and the ultimate role of sacrifice and voluntary responsibility in creating cosmos from chaos.

Last Episode Aired 2026-09-17

S1E9 — Q&A: Making Meaning Together

In the Question & Answer session, Dr. Peterson addresses student questions about memory, narrative structure, and cultural cohesion, exploring how shared stories shape individual identity and collective meaning. He examines how fragmented cultural narratives and social media algorithms risk creating a modern “Tower of Babel,” while emphasizing individual psychological and spiritual transformation as a response to societal evil. Other topics include beauty, relational contracts, the biological basis of meaning-seeking, and convergent validation as a means of distinguishing truth from subjective interpretation.

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