Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

by Jordan B. Peterson

Rejection of the unknown is tantamount to "identification with the devil," the mythological counterpart and eternal adversary of the world-creating exploratory hero. Such rejection and identification is a consequence of Luciferian pride, wh ich states: all that I know is all that is necessary to know. This pride is totalitarian assumption of omnisdence-is adoption of God's place by "reason"- is something that inevitably generates astate of personal and sodal being indistinguishable from hell. This hell develops because creative exploration-impossible, without (humble) acknowledgment of the unknown-constitutes the process that constructs and maintains the protective adaptive structure that gives life much of its acceptable meaning. "Identification with the deviI" amplifies