Juan

“Before this vision, I don’t remember having heard about this or about mystical happenings in general, and if I had, I’m certain I either paid such reports no heed or scoffed at them as superstition. My life had been devoted to scientific, rational pursuits, but the Light experience radically changed me.”
― Nathan Schwartz-Salant, The Order-Disorder Paradox: Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society

“I have not only been accompanied by my wife, Lydia, on this path, but I have also benefited from her involvement in the ideas that are presented here as The Order-Disorder Paradox.”
― Nathan Schwartz-Salant, The Order-Disorder Paradox: Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society

“Atop the dragon stands a figure known as a Rebis, a single body with two heads, one male, one female. The Rebis is a symbol of the fully developed personality that can emerge from forthright and courageous pursuit of what is meaningful (the round chaos) and dangerous and promising (the dragon). It has a symbolically masculine aspect, which typically stands for exploration, order, and rationality (indicated by the Sun, which can be seen to the left of the male head), and a symbolically feminine aspect, which stands for chaos, promise, care, renewal, and emotion (indicated by the Moon, to the right of the female). In the course of normal socialization, it is typical for one of these aspects to become more developed than the other (as males are socialized in the male manner, to which they are also inclined biologically, and females in the female manner). Nonetheless, it is possible—with enough exploration, enough exposure to the round chaos and the dragon—to develop both elements. That constitutes an ideal—or so goes the alchemical intuition.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

“Somehow this background lived through me, producing a kind of knowing that was totally new. I could see a severe level of paranoia in one person, and a sinister past in Nazi Germany in another, while in behavior they were kind and intelligent. As I later learned from someone who knew these people well, my perceptions were strikingly accurate. I just felt these things were true.”
― Nathan Schwartz-Salant, The Order-Disorder Paradox: Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society