Dr. Peterson,
Please, with all due respect, I am begging you to stop telling people to become monsters.
The most valuable asset each of us has as humans is our attention. Where we put our attention, that is where our time and energy will be.
Now imagine the Yin and Yang sign. Black and white. The black side representing all that’s evil in this world and the white side representing all that’s good.
To become a monster, you have to focus entirely on the black side—on the “devil,” let’s say. If you give all of your attention to the devil, it means that all your energy and time go to him as well. Let’s say you need ten years to become that monster you keep inviting people to be.
What now?
You know fully that every action you take has consequences. What are the consequences for yourself and everyone around you for those ten years spent with the devil? What is the price for that? Everything has a price, and I am telling you that the cost of becoming a monster is way too high. The risks outweigh the benefits. Infinite to one.
I am assuming that you are encouraging people to become monsters so that they become strong. Leaders. Warriors. So that they may have the ability to navigate life better.
Becoming a monster is not the way to go.
You know better than I do that everything good is attacked in this universe because that is the fundamental nature of our universe. We don’t know why it is like that, but we know it is. You prepare the soil in your garden and plant a tomato plant, and as soon as you plant it, bugs and weeds try to kill it, so you have to constantly nourish and protect it if you want to eat fresh tomatoes in the summer.
That is the nature of the universe we live in. Maybe God made it like that to give us the opportunity to be useful and the gift of feeling like a hero because we planted, nourished, and saved the tomato plant from the weeds.
With all that in mind, I suggest telling people to lay their foundation in the positive. In the light and with God.
A perfect example of a warrior in God’s name would be the Archangel Michael. The Archangel Michael must be a great warrior because he defeated the devil and banished him from heaven—a great, courageous, brave warrior but never a monster.
A monster kills, metaphorically speaking, out of pleasure and with joy—a direct, flagrant, and premeditated attack on life and creation.
A warrior of God kills out of necessity to protect what’s good, and he always feels sick to his stomach because he has to do it. With every kill, something dies in him also.
A monster will die a horrible and humiliating death, while a warrior of the light will die like a hero.
Becoming a monster gets engraved into your DNA, and you pass it on to future generations. Who can anticipate or know what that would bring into the world?
Hitler was a monster – we don’t need more of those.
Stalin was a monster – one was more than enough.
I also assume you encourage people to become monsters based on Yung’s idea of accepting and incorporating your shadow. Yin and Yang, all that’s good, and all that’s evil, reside simultaneously in all of us. I understand that concept and agree with it, but you don’t need to become a monster to accept and integrate the shadow.
If you become a monster, you are the shadow. Only if you are a warrior of light can you accept and integrate your shadow because, as I mentioned earlier, everything that’s good in this universe gets attacked.
Focus on God, give Him all your attention, or as much as you can, and all hell will break loose and come after you. And that is when you acknowledge your own shadow, accept it, and integrate it.
Matthew 6:33 – “But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”
If you keep encouraging people to become monsters, some will listen to you, some will become excellent monsters, and many will get lost on that journey. All of those souls will be traced to you. History and God will judge you for every one of them.
Become a monster and then have that under voluntary control. What control? To be a monster, you need to get entirely lost in that ideology, and if you are not completely absorbed by that concept and energy, you are not a monster. What control? Who within you that is lost in the ideology of the monster will be stronger than the monster to voluntarily control the monster?
Your idea does not stand, and as I mentioned earlier, there are far too many risks and no rewards.
The price is your life, your bloodline, and your name.
Zero benefits.
Encourage people to become heroes because true heroes always have their hearts in light and with God, even if their feet step through hell.
Psalm 23:4: “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.”
With love, yours truly, Cristian.