Anthony G. Cirilla
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If Tolkien Reviewed Dr. Strange: On Fairy-Stories and Marvel’s Magician
Renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Stephen Strange prides himself on his steady hands and his brilliant mind. A brutal car accident ruins those hands and leaves his mind in a scrambled state of desperation, leading him outside his comfort zone of Western medicine to seek help in Kamar-Taj, a mysterious monastery in Kathmandu. He believes his gambit […]
Epic Meditations in Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life and Augustine’s Confessions, part 5: Parent as Proxy
Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them. Jordan Peterson The unjust stumble over you and are justly chastised. Augustine All I wanted to do was buy my sister the cereal she wanted. My desire was to give her what she desired. So I let her pick out the cereal, and […]
Epic Meditations in Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life and Augustine’s Confessions, part 4: Temple Building
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today. Jordan Peterson For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth. Augustine When Aeneas first lands in Carthage after […]
Beyond Order and the Plea for Hierarchy
When 12 Rules for Life hit bookstores in 2018, Jordan Peterson had already captured the imaginations of millions of YouTube viewers, a following that had grown out of his presentation of the psychological philosophy he had developed in his 1999 Maps of Meaning and made accessible in audiovisual form in his recorded classroom lectures. As […]
Epic Meditations in Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life and Augustine’s Confessions, part 3: Friendship
“Make friends with people who want the best for you.” Jordan Peterson “You, Lord God, lover of souls, show a compassion far purer and freer of mixed motives than ours.” Augustine I had trouble making friends when I was young. Like many kids, I had learned through some tough (for a second grader) experiences a […]
