The meaning behind Harry Potter | Jordan B Peterson 

Stephen King said something like this in relation to Harry Potter: "Harry Potter is a story about finding who you are, taking on challenges, and making friends who no matter what will be there to help guide you to happiness... Twilight is a book about how important it is to have a boyfriend."

Listening to Jordan Peterson reminds me that knowledge is not a pile of facts to be remembered, but a vast web of interrelated truths. Every point in the topic reminds him of something related to that point that reinforces it.

I'm 37 years old and I've found life really tough. I've been listening to Jordan's words for 2 years. In that time I feel my life has improved greatly and I now almost don't recognize myself. I've never been happier or stronger mentally. I owe the man so much.

This made me realize as to how perfect it was that everytime Harry Potter and the crew helped the whole school from colapsying, they had to break some rules. This goes to show how sometimes you have to go outside the box to produce change. Even Hermione had to swallow that fact, after she almost got killed by a troll, and she would've died without Harry and Ron disobeying the rules.

Harry Potter's a rule breaker. But in other interviews he says Harry only breaks rules WHEN NECESSARY. So not really disobedient just capable of using his own discernment of the rules, to see if they apply to his situation. And what rules does he break. Yr1 he and Ron go looking for Hermione instead of heading back to Griff' tower, saves her life. Don't go to the 3rd floor, it's dangerous, u might Die! But they all go and manage to save the day. Don't go in the forbidden forest, it's dangerous, u might Die! And that's just yr 1! All the rules he breaks r ones put in place to keep the kids safe. Sooooooo.... U can't grow spiritually if always kept safe. Break away from the safe spaces, strike out on ur own track down ur demons, challenge them and keep challenging them until u prevail.

As a Veteran who has faced my own ability to do "great harm", Jordan's statement about that hit me like a ton of bricks... I've though about exactly that many times, but I didn't realize that I wasn't the only person who thought about it. I feel like I've just been hit by a freight train. I honestly don't know whether to lash out or curl up in a ball and cry. PTSD is not a fun thing to deal with.

Forget cult, they're not even remote fans of Harry Potter or they would know that if you look directly at a Basiliks you die not freeze..You freeze or get petrified only if you look at the eyes of the Basilisk indirectly.

One month sober today from Alcohol. Clicked on this because Harry Potter. Then he hit's me over the head at the end. Damn!

A major part of the story for me was understanding the voldemort part in harry is the negative part that is in all of us. When it goes unchecked it will continue to torture your mind, filling you with anger, negativity, and isolation from your friends. It will continue to gain strength until you feel so bad that you can accept that you have to face it. Things have to get so bad that you no longer fear death. When you truly face it you are able to kill this part of you. Then re-emerging free from it. Like a dark night of the soul experience.

“We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on... that’s who we really are.”

The way he is able to link such abstract concepts together in a beautiful way is just mind-blowing.

"The chaos that's under us right now will come to the surface" - something small shifts, something fragile breaks, and all law order and civilization falls apart and is replaced by the chaos of lawlessness and venality. Truthful words of our times.

“You’re all in a cult!” *students laugh nervously* “No, you are!!”

Listening to Jordan Peterson paraphrasing Harry Potter is like listening to my Grandmother rhyme Snoop Dogg. Hard not to like.

He’s the type of professor where you barely need to take notes because he’s so engaging you really just need to list the discussion topics and you remember the lectures and discussions themselves

What I appreciate about him is that he doesn't give a prepared speech, but explores ideas throughout the speech, which gives students to think it themselves

Professor Peterson has done such good in this world. I know he's taking his time recovering, but I also know he's a man who can't bear to let a moment go to waste, who knows that our every action is consequential beyond imagining. So, I trust that he's doing what he believes is best for him, for his family, for his community, for this world; in a way that will work today, tomorrow, next week, next month, and onward. Don't worry about us, Jordan! Our rooms will stay clean in the meantime :)

“As long as the lights are on, everyone’s fed, the sewage works, there can be some relative peace. But if any of those things stopped working, we would fall into chaos. And it could at any time, because it’s a miracle any of these things work at all.”

His comment about chaos being just below and so close is spot on. I lived in Chile in 2010 when we had an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and then a subsequent tsunami. It was within 24 hours that people began to loot grocery stores, homes and burn them down in small towns and major cities. Not when they were all starving mind you, it wasn’t even the next day. Chaos is chained by comfort.

We must be in sync because this was the right thing I needed to hear at this moment.

Commenting to say how grateful I am for everything I learn from this man and to applaud those who have been able to improve their lives from his lessons.

That thumbnail makes Jordan look like The Joker

Strange listening to somebody officially talking about Harry Potter. I found another analogy in it: the Patronus... how the psychologist needs to be become the patronus for the client to lead him/her through the dark forest of fears which is full of bad past memories causing anxiety and dissociation (dementors). I told this to my psychologist, my very own patronus deer. I was very grateful to him.

I couldn't have seen this at a more important time in my life. I am so grateful for this man and the accessibility of this content. Thank you

Ah, excellent. Jordan Peterson talking about Harry Potter for 20 minutes. I shall listen to this while I brush my teeth & get ready for bed. Long enough and I won’t have to deal with ads.

If you want to see true monsters, just hang around high school kids. There is nothing more cruel,than high school kids. No telling how many kids are bullied to death, by their own friends and classmates.

I was one of those blokes who believed that I was a nice guy. Then I started attending these online lectures, and had some self reflections. I found out that I have the ability to break people down by picking their lives apart with my words, and ever since then, I've learned to be more conscious of this ''weapon'' and it helped me become a better person.

The wisdom of this man never fails to surprise me. Get well Professor x

How the hell can you turn up late to a JP lecture, shit if I had the opportunity to see JP lecture in person I’d arrive the week before and camp out.

Love Potter and Peterson! Huge parts of my life. Haven’t read them books since discovering JBP, but when I do, they’re gonna mean so much more. Thank you thank you thank you.

"As soon as things break down, there's chaos." Minneapolis: "Imma pretend I didn't hear that."

Phoenix tears are a metaphor for compassion. Jung spoke of treating one's self with compassion when facing one's shadow.

I have asked him so many questions in my head..

Listening this again, knowing what he's(hole family actually) going trough I'm praying & wait for his new acquired wisdom to be shared. He's carrying a heavy cruce

“The chaos under the surface” feels like today the chaos has surfaced.

Only Jordan Peterson can start a story that the audience knows, then stop, start it again, then stop again, and then resume, stop, and finally resume the story and every person is still intrigued in the story he's telling. Brilliant.

Imagine if every humanities professor taught like this… what a world of difference that would mean!

It seems like a lot of destruction comes from people being unable to face their shadow, too many people want to split off from it and not acknowledge it, they want to believe they are "all good" and everyone else is "all bad." This concept is also a consistent theme in David Lynch's work, especially Twin Peaks. The dark half will consume everything if it isn't faced and integrated. That which is underneath the surface will make itself known if balance isn't maintained. I think that's a lot of what we are seeing with people now.

JP teaches life through psychology.. it’s brilliant

Imagine walking into Mr Peterson's lecture 17 and a half minutes late missing all this goodness

6:12 The classic hand-up to hair brush.

Didn't even know I needed the Great JBP to dissect Harry Potter til I heard this. His dissections of stories -- especially Disney ones -- are SO... TRUE. And I don't use the word Truth lightly at all. But just thinking carefully and deeply through what he says, it rings TRUE to me. I just wish I could get every person who knows Harry Potter to listen to this.

Remember this, we all have choices to make.

You die when you look at it directly in the eyes, you are frozen if you look indirectly. But wow, this lecture was amazing. A great perspective on the novel.

Another glimpse into WHY & HOW this person is a SUPER-HUMAN! He elevates us all by bringing us back to ourselves--and with benevolence & passion! Love! & A World of THANKS!

He makes great points about personal growth and character development. Continual growth requires reflection, modesty, pain, & persistence.

3:56 Way to smash down those stereotypes about being about being on time.

Always blown away listening to Jordan. His talks always seems to come in handy when it matters.

"because life is so difficult, you have to do something that is truly worthwhile"

The part about the whole society could fall apart in a split second is really fitting rn in America

You have to read all the books! The details of the stories go much deeper than the movies can. I can't believe these young people hadn't read the whole series. My daughter and I read them together. It was an awesome part of her childhood.

3:56 me casually walking in late and pretending nothin' happened

When comparing his lectures to the ones I attended when I was at university, I can't help but realize the vaaaaast difference between Peterson's way of teaching and what I experienced there. Even if I was interested in the topic (and I obviously was able to choose my subjects) and even if the professors were competent and knowledgeable, there was not anyone who did not read from a script. Normally, you couldn't help but doze off after some amount of time. But in these lectures, the students seem attentive. I don't know why some comments say they seem bored...? There must be reason for that (and for the amount of views he gets)!

Loved this so much. Hope you are still recovering well Mr Peterson

I love his explanation. It explains all the fears I've had about the monster inside of me, ever since I was little.

Thank God this guy is on our side. Around 5:00 he's talking about realizing the evil inside our hearts. For a long time my inner Levite was trying to overcome and failing. One night God gave me a dream where I was going down, down, down, down into the basement. Finally I got to the basement and there was a HUGE guy sitting in silence in the dark. Very scary. Living in my house. Never realized he (it) was there. Scared the s__t out of me cause I knew I could never beat that guy. Realized I had to pray to God for Him to beat him (it) so I could live. Thank God for God and thank God that He's on our side too.

All having a chance to go to hiss classes are super lucky and winners in this area of expertise. If 50% of teachers or proffersors would be like Jordan, we are all winners and will thrive. Reminds me my early age decissions not to pursue university degree, because i was discussed by the system and burned out teachers that i rather decided to get education in my are of expertise through my proffesional carreer. Listening to Jordan for some time, i have decided at least to read more and get a bit of a knowledge in the things he talks about and i can tell you it actually helps me to understand myself, my relatives, colleagues and helps a lot managing ppl to understand them better, support them, know their differences and how to work with it. I think he might be one of the great of his era. I hope for that.

As a Potter cultist, I just want to say if you look at the basilisk, it kills you. It's only because the view of the snake was filtered through various means (reflections, through a camera, etc...) that everyone was petrified. But everything else Peterson says is incredibly interesting.

We need more professors like Dr. Peterson. Take or leave his politics but god damn, if any of my college professors ever actually delivered a lecture that hooked me like "so heres what Happy Potter actually means" I'd have spent more time listening and less time sleeping.

The universal justice and the eyes of truth are always watching you...you will be back...but know I see...not yet...god bless you man.

This is one of the best Clips. I love the part where he says about the neural structure "Its alive ..... and you've GOT TO KILL IT !! " so savage

Prof Peterson is the by God sage of his time. And I thank God that his time is also my time, and that I might learn from him.

Well said Dr.Jordan Thank you so much for all you open our minds to.wish i was a student in all your classes !

Mensa Results - IQ 127 ( SD 24 ) IQ 117 ( SD 16 ) Tested at Shrewsbury Library on the 2nd of July, 2016.

When the prof said that heroes always has two sets of parents that really hit different! !!!!!! Because look at superman flash spiderman BRUH! !!!!!!

This analisys linking Harry Potter and the shadow from Jung is amazing, we kinda feel something especial in the story but only through it we can understand

17:40 that's pretty much me arriving at the end of every class

I hope those students now recognise how valuable their seat in that lecture hall is worth. But I kind of also wonder how any of them is meant to answer a question from these lectures. Like what would the question be? “What is the meaning behind Harry Potter, bucko?”

I thought Harry getting bit by the Basilisk and beeing healed by the Pheonix was about "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" that's why it makes sense to everyone.

Man I hope those students have read the Harry Potter books before he just dumped the biggest spoiler on them without giving a damn. 😂

5:38 this reminds me of a very good statement from a character in feluda: "Unlike us humans these animals don't pretend to be nice, they show us what they are- vicious and venomous"

Hi Mr Peterson, i'am not sure why you've been away but it is nice to see you back.I am a lost soul ,the same as the rest of use on this planet .

"You cannot have proper respect for yourself until you know that you're a monster."

Now I can see smt interesting from the perspective of my own experience. I would like to make such metaphor to show it better : a person needs two things - the roots and the wings. To exists properly in society. The roots are our culture, our ancestors, our family. The wings are our chances of education, of development, of making something for bigger progress. But when a person went through the process of cutting the wings the only thing this person has left with are the roots. Thats is how - I guess - many educated and critical and creative persons returned to their roots - becouse that was the only thing the society left them with by cutting their wings, their ambitions. And I guess that many people want to be more conservative and returning to their roots - of family, of religion, of culture - becouse they were punished for their virtues of creativeness, ambition, hard work and want of developing smt for the good of society. We were left by the society, by the govs, by the elites without the chance to enter the processes of developoment and to gain some participation in the process (on any topic), and so the only thing I - and many others - were left with was their roots, toward which we are returning now, becouse no one wanted us to join the progress by cutting our wings.

Imagine being late for his lecture....

Omg he feels better, thank goodness. Thank you Petersons.

When Jordan Peterson is not talking about postmodernism, that I personally don't think he really grasp very well, he is a very motivating and engaging communicator. The talks of him where he uses literature to dive into socialpsychology and developmental studies are truly original and compelling. I imagine he must be a real treat as a professor.

Peterson's comments around 12:00 reminds me of a scene from Anne of Green Gables. Marilla: Would you want Diana to marry a wicked man? Anne: Not if he were wicked, just if he could be, but wasn't.

This thing he says about knowing you’re a monster is very true. It’s how I feel about cheating. I say everyone is capable of it. Some say “I would never cheat!” I’m not so sure... if you think you’re capable, you’ll be guarded about the possibility. (At least if you think cheating is something you don’t wanna do.) People who think they’d be heroic, eeeeeh... would need to see it.

You know how the phonix resurrecting archetype is so hard to interpret, I think its to do with the cyclic nature of the universe, constantly going through a bing bang/big crunch cycle for all eternity, no beginning, no end.

I wish I had found Dr Peterson when I was younger

Pure gold,thank you!)

Thank you Dr. JP

Wow, Jordan B. Peterson always makes sense. In the pantheon of "People who always Make Sense" with Mohamed A. El-Erian, Tulsi Gabbard, Nigel Farage, Buddy Hoffman I will always listen when they speak for it will make me smarter.

I deduce that a myth is a same archetypal story that is repeated continuously along history across different characters and cultures. But why is it repeated so much? Why it survived so long?

The phoenix analogy very powerful thank you

Any news on when he is coming back?

God bless the wisdom mr. Peterson shares

JP is wearing a lot of keys on his jeans. Akin to the “man with the keys” in the beginning of E.T. The keys represent authority and importance without showing the man with the keys face.

In Croatian Odaja tajni is the chamber of secrets, and at the same time it is very close in sound to 'betrayal of secrets'. 'Odavanje tajni' really means 'Betrayal of secrets', but 'izdaja' means betrayal (of somebody or something, which may be by betraying of his secret, and as you can see the last four letters are the same. Not a coincidence. Somehow I was naturally patriotic in those days when the seed of idea has grown, but in our present time I have also recognized that message and meaning when the second book was published, but did not recognize personal connection between Joanne and me immediately. We where connected spiritually during her writing. And however even J Peterson has said . and there are how many of them (books) seven!... In the beginning I was more negative in observing her personally. I can not find the word for that. A few words partly apply, but none quite. I was aware that we must booth have been creasy about the literature from very young age. It was impossible to have a similar meaning for her from the very beginning, because of the task of writing seven books, have I started with very positive feelings about her it would be like Hufflepuff. A balloon that would make poof. And also she was active subject while my part was not well defined or clear, even now it isn't. That chamber is less secretive then the rest of the castle, without a doubt. Which plays into my explanation. One interesting thing is that people suspect Harry to be a bad guy exactly in this sequel were a creature of lover position in evolution has central role. Peterson didn't talk exactly about that, but his explanations apply to that moment in the story also. It makes him also potentially closer to Malfoy, and in one hidden chamber of other kind he saves life of his enemies Malfoy and Goyle. 11:47 beta mail guy. One of the roles of our culture is to make some of naturally alfa mail to appear to be beta mail. If they would appear like alfa it would be much differently then the majority of alfas, so alfa-ness of majority of alfas could some under scrutiny. When I say culture I mean people. If important subject in that religion is unjustly treated it doesn't make that religion incapable of unjust treatment of others. As I have said to the guy that is incarnation of Jesus, in Christianity the man really

Back in my days as a police officer I was faced with many situations in which the possibility of death was so real and so terrifying that I had to disassociate myself from the situation and become just a vessel so that I could get through it. Having to repeat this process numerous times has damaged me in ways that I can’t fully comprehend.

*gesturing towards the floor* "There's a snake zippin' around there"

is this recent video or re upload... last i heard he is rather sick but getting better

Harry Potter's moral compass is superglued to true north. When the glue comes unstuck, Hermione hands him a fresh tube.

If Jordan was my lecturer at university, I might have actually turned up.

good job camera guy. Best job on youtube

Thank you

Long shot - but can anyone advise me on what auto tracking camera JP is using here?

On the topic of “shadows”, I wonder what he would think about the Persona 4 game.

Very instructive analysis!