What if the thought that just crossed your mind arrived the same way a prayer is answered? In this lecture, Jordan Peterson opens with a claim that sounds impossible and spends the next ninety minutes making it undeniable: that thinking is a kind of secularized prayer, that every insight you have ever had arrived more like a revelation than like a calculation, and that the direction you aim decides not only what you think but what you are able to see at all. From an ordinary argument with your wife, which Peterson uses to reveal something disturbing about the spirit in which you speak, he moves through a prophet alone in a cave, a man swallowed by the sea for staying silent, and two brothers and a rejected offering, building toward a single answer to the oldest question a person can ask. What faith turns out to be has almost nothing to do with belief in the way you were taught, and everything to do with a decision you are already making, every hour, whether you have noticed it or not. This lecture was filmed on May 16th, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.

Peterson Academy is excited to share Dr. John Vervaeke’s first lecture from Intelligence, Rationality, Wisdom and Spirituality. @DrJohnVervaeke explores the core components of cognitive agency, including intelligence, rationality, wisdom, and spirituality.

Dr. Baland Jalal course: The Neuroscience of Optimal Performance and Well-Being, is available now. In this course, Dr. Jalal explores balance, brain health, and peak performance. Topics include key brain structures, neurochemicals such as dopamine and serotonin, attention management, flow states, and strategies for thriving under pressure. We also examine addiction recovery, sleep science, and stress management. Practical techniques such as visualization, cognitive reappraisal, and environmental design are covered alongside dopamine optimization and burnout recovery. The course concludes with reflections on authentic living and grounding pursuits in meaning and service.

What does a punk rock concert full of sneering nihilists have to do with the oldest question about how to live? In this lecture, the final numbers of a long tour, Jordan Peterson begins somewhere unexpected: a Ramones show decades ago, where a room full of people who claimed life was meaningless could not stop moving to the music. That contradiction becomes a thread he pulls until something enormous comes loose, a case that the meaning you insist isn't there is woven into the way you perceive, the way you listen, and the aim you set without realizing you have set it. Along the way he takes apart the fantasy of a life without struggle, asks why a seventy-year-old man asleep in comfort is the least enviable figure in the Bible, and arrives, in the quietest moment of the night, at a piece of advice about love so simple and so practical that you will wonder why no one ever told you. What begins with a joke about slam dancing ends with a question you answer every time you decide what to look for. This lecture was recorded on February 5th, 2024 in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Gerald Posner’s course: The Politics of Cancer: Money, Power, and the Malignant Empire, is available now. In this course, @geraldposner examines cancer’s evolution from an ancient disease to a modern industry, revealing how financial, political, and institutional forces have often prioritized treatment over prevention. We explore key developments including chemotherapy, the “war on cancer,” corporate suppression of carcinogen research, breast cancer advocacy, and emerging technologies like immunotherapy and AI. The course exposes conflicts of interest and regulatory failures while ultimately calling for a more transparent, independent system centered on prevention and patient empowerment.

What does a nervous man on a first date in a crowded restaurant have to do with the darkest impulses a human being can harbor? In this lecture, Jordan Peterson takes a scene so ordinary you have lived it a dozen times and slows it down until something unsettling appears underneath. Every glance across that table, he argues, is already serving a hidden aim, and the direction of that aim quietly decides whether the person sitting across from you is a partner to love or a tool to use. From the biology of why we pair bond, through the four dark traits that psychologists spent fifty years mapping, to the story of two brothers and a sacrifice gone wrong, Peterson traces how ordinary desire curdles into something monstrous, and how the same attention, aimed differently, becomes the foundation of trust, marriage, and everything worth building. What begins as dating advice ends somewhere you will not expect, with a burning sword, a fleeing prophet, and a question you answer without meaning to every time you look at another person. This lecture was filmed in Phoenix, Arizona.

The doomsaying climate modellers completely missed the biggest transformation of the Earth's ecosystem in the last thirty years. Wait: it's worse than that. They predicted exactly the opposite of what has happened. How can we possibly justify continuing to trust them? The planet has not desertified. In fact, it is almost inconceivably greener. A whole continent's worth of additional vegetation. And crop yields are way up too. Why? Because of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide. There's a really Inconvenient Truth.

We’re excited to share Wesley Huff's
second lecture from The Historical Reliability of the Bible. @WesleyLHuff guides us through the historical foundations of Scripture. Together, we examine the evidence for the Bible's reliability.

The West is handing over the world's economy to China. To China, for God's sake: an unimaginably brutal totalitarian regime. And why? So our hypocritical elite can continue to style themselves as planetary saviors? Enough demoralizing doom-crying. Enough despicable praying in public. Enough subverting our children's future. Enough pointless impoverishing of Europe and Australia. Enough bloody Net Zero idiocy. Enough.

Everybody knows the deserts are expanding. Everybody knows that climate change threatens our food supplies. LIES. LIES. LIES. LIES. LIES. LIES. The planet is greener, by an area 3x that of the Amazon. The Sahara is shrinking fast. Crops are thriving like never before. Enough Net Zero posturing. Enough demoralizing the young. To hell with the false prophets of environmental doom.

'How in the world did we get here? How did something as personal as home or workplace temperature become an ecological sin requiring both state condemnation and centralised control?' @jordanbpeterson questions how government intervention 'this invasive and totalising – leaving virtually nothing outside its purview – became not only the norm, but the declared moral ideal' ⤵️

Nothing in my life compares to my children. I have had a career overwhelming in its depth, excitement, intrigue, mystery and consequence. I love my wife Tammy deeply—loyal, beautiful, provocative—my friend for more than fifty years. It's a privilege and an honor to be married to her. I can't believe my good fortune in a partner. But nothing in my life compares to my children. And they in turn love their children. Julian and his wife Jillian have three. That's an increasingly rare accomplishment. They were bested on that front, however, this week. My daughter Mikhaila and her husband Jordan welcomed the arrival of their fourth child Francis Jordan Fuller, eight pounds one oz, Tuesday, July 28 at 11:14 PM. Mother and son are doing well. Let us take a moment, in consequence, to marvel at women. Over the last three years, I watched my daughter Mikhaila juggle my affairs and my illness, start and run Peterson Academy with her husband Jordan, launch Afterparty, a new commercial product, while preparing two more (coming soon), and initiate a formal clinical trial of a dietary intervention for autoimmune disorders—all the while, pregnant and with small children. George is not yet three, Audrey not two, and now, in the midst of all that, Francis. And her pregnancies have not been easy: Mik's health is precarious, in consequence of her auto-immune condition, which manifested itself early in her life and took two of her joints: her left ankle and her right hip. She's managed to put into remission what the staff at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children described as the worst case of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis they had even seen. But maintaining that requires constant attention and management. Mikhaila has an older child, too. Elizabeth Scarlett, now nearing nine. She's an absolute delight, as healthy, well-managed children can God willing be: clowny, happy, clear-headed, playful, beautiful, social, friendly, smart and talented. George, a little clown himself, is thriving and—more miraculously—so is Audrey. That little girl was hospitalized last year with a rare virally induced cardiac problem. It almost killed her. Mikhaila and my son-in-law JF spent weeks in the hospital with their new baby. Thank God she recovered. None of that stopped my daughter. In the midst of catastrophe, she determined to bring forth new life: three children in the last three years. An all-consuming enterprise, which she has managed without being all consumed. I suppose in some ways it's the most commonplace of things, although the deadly low birth rate in the West suggests otherwise. But life is the miraculous in the commonplace: there are some nine billion of us, but every one of us is unique—something that never happened before and never will again. The wise remember that every second of their lives. And now we have Francis. Congratulations, to Mikhaila and JF. Congratulations, Tam, my love. And to baby Francis Fuller: welcome to the world, terrible and wonderful as it is.

What if the self you keep trying to serve isn't actually you at all? In this lecture, the final stop of a 60 city tour, Jordan Peterson begins with an unlikely admission from the world's most famous atheist and follows it into the two shortest, densest paragraphs in the Bible: the story of two brothers and the offerings they make. From there he traces a single thread through the whole architecture of a human life, why the child who insists on his own way ends up with no friends, why a marriage cannot survive on getting what you want, and how a thousand quiet hours of resentment turn an ordinary person into someone capable of the unthinkable. What he uncovers is not a rule about religion but a question your own conscience has been asking you all along, one that decides whether the world opens up in front of you or closes in. The answer has nothing to do with belief in the usual sense, and everything to do with what you're willing to give up. This lecture was filmed on June 25, 2024, in Mexico City, Mexico.

Journalist: the favourite career choice of high school mean girls? What is it about certain British female journalists? Stunningly, even narcissistically confident in their often ill-informed opinions ("you know, everyone reasonable thinks like me"), surprised and offended at any hint of disagreement; unimpressed by the merely factual; purposefully and viciously reputation-savaging. I've met many of them. GQ's Helen Lewis perhaps tops the list, although Decca Aitkenhead of the Sunday Times was a real contender on the deceitful manipulation side. Then there was the NY Times's Nellie Bowles-—not British, admittedly, but evil enough to be. She outright admitted some years after the interview that she spent her time at the New York Times, destroying people purposefully to elevate her own status. Elon kept his composure and his wit. Thank God for the cold blood of engineers.

To the Americans: I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States. And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness: You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence. This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns. Success is equated with exploitation. Ambition is looked upon with contempt. This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom. But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated. This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet. And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America: Thank God for the United States. Thank God for the wisdom of its founders. Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man. Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners. Long may your admirable country dominate the world. Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states. May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning. Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill. Thank God for the USA. Happy 250th. Dr. Jordan B. Peterson