The True Power of Your Consciousness | Jordan Peterson

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]It's the monster you cut into pieces to make the world. It's the giant you defeat to stabilize the social order.

[00:00:06]It's potential itself. That's what your consciousness confronts. You're not driven algorithmically. You have a field of possibility in front of you, and you navigate through it with a vision.

[00:00:16]That's how you live. That's what your consciousness is. That's why it's made in the image of God, and you have something to do. It's not trivial.

[00:00:23]You're shaping the world. You're co-creating the world, and hopefully as an emissary of God. God is the establisher of the moral order. He's the [music] spirit that forbids human beings from taking on the right [music] to define the moral order to themselves.

[00:00:39]That's eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It's like, "No."