2+ hour Podcast with Jordan Peterson
Victim culture, spirituality, the perils of political ideology, and much more.
The wait is over.
Watch me indulge in picking the pop psychologist’s erudite mind for over 2 hours. Transcending the victim mentality, the end of white privilege, the absence of spirituality in the West, and the psychedelic origins of ancient religions.
Yep, all things that challenge the mainstream orthodoxy — left and right.
If you told me after I graduated high school in 2019 that I’d get to talk to Peterson, I’d laugh in your fucking face.
I wish I could go back and tell my former lost, dejected, and unaccomplished self that this was in the cards. It would have alleviated so much of my despondent outlook at the time.
It’s incredible how the universe gradually pushes you in directions that you never could have predicted. I didn’t carefully plan or orchestrate this podcast. It just happened.
(Not to take away from my audacious pitch to Peterson to have this conversation last year.)
As I promoted in the foreword of the video version, this conversation was one of a handful of threads that animated my current explorations in psychedelic therapy.
Read my essay on my incredibly profound MDMA experience:
Spotify link (thanks Mikhaila for the kind intro!):
Rav Arora is a 20-year-old independent journalist widely published in The New York Post, The Globe and Mail, Foreign Policy Magazine, and other venues. Read his published articles here. He has appeared on The Ben Shapiro Show, Sky News Australia, The Dr. Drew Show, and other programs.
Upcoming pieces on unreported Covid truths, psychedelics, and reflecting on the past.
"If you told me after I graduated high school in 2019 that I’d get to talk to Peterson, I’d laugh in your fucking face."
Only three years later... Inspiring to see what can happen if you take the effort. I have listened to a lot of interviews with Jordan Peterson, but yours is really in my top list! You didn't look at all like you were young or less experiened. Or nervous (like you 3 years back might have been?) It was a really open/personal conversations from both of you, and you have asked good questions that really opened up the conversation.
Thanks a lot!
That was a brilliant interview, I'm blown away that you're only 20. That gives me hope for the future! Most young Westerners are not intellectually curious and are contemptuous towards anything they don't like, agree with or understand. So I came over and subbed cos I want to follow you on your journey as I learn more and grow more. Back when I was in uni, I studied philosophy and was introduced to the fact that in India, in Hindusim, there is no distinction between science and the spiritual unseen "religious" world, unlike here where it's one or the other, but never both. So getting that perspective at a young age changed my life, opened my mind and made me realize that just because things might SEEM opposed or in conflict, doesn't make it true. What IS true is that the unexamined life is not worth living! Shalom.