Category: Hero’s Journey
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The Art of Healing ~III~
“The Left-Hand Path” If you google the “Monomyth” or the “Hero’s Journey” you will find no end of diagrams representing Joseph Campbell’s structure of life, death, and rebirth. Here’s a little inside information — if the steps of the diagram don’t move right to left, whoever made it might not know their Campbell. When Campbell […]
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The Hero’s Journey ~XIV~
I know how to use my heart. I am master of my heart-case.I am master of my hands and arms.I am master of my legs.I have the power to do whatever my KA desires to do. My heart-soul shall not be kept prisonerin my body at the gates of Amentet. I will go in in […]
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The Hero’s Journey ~XIII~
It is the hero, really, who is swallowed by the dragon yet always reappears, having destroyed the dragon from within. That tiny thing, that unique individual, that Self, is small as the point of a needle; yet, because it is so small, is also greater than great. ~ Carl Jung, Visions Seminar, p 358-359
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The Hero’s Journey ~XIII~
The Lord’s message came to Elijah: “Depart from here and travel eastward. Hide out in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan. Drink from the stream; I have already told the ravens to bring you food there.” So he carried out the Lord’s message; he went and lived in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan. The ravens would bring him bread and […]
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The Hero’s Journey ~XII~
I, the perfect Forethought of The All, transformed myself into my offspring. I existed first and went down every path. I am the abundance of LightI am the remembrance of Fullness. I travelled in the realm of great darkness,and continued until I entered the midst of the prison. The foundations of chaos shook, and I hid from […]
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The Art of Individuation ~XXV~
Excerpt from the podcast This Jungian Life (fantastic podcast… highly recommended) with Jungian analysts Deborah Lee, Lisa Marchiano, and Joseph Lee. Episode: “Humanizing the Hero” (Link) LM: There are people that come into my consulting room who need do some heroic energy to push past anxiety or apathy or the belief that they’re only safe […]
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The Hero’s Journey ~XI~
It is enormously difficult for a human being to develop into full potential. The struggle with the infantile within us exerts a tremendous “gravitational” pull against achieving that full adult potential. Nevertheless, we need to fight gravity by dint of hard labor to build up the pyramids of first boyhood and then manhood that constitute […]
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The Hero’s Journey ~X~
All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not wither,Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken,A light from the shadows shall spring;Renewed shall be blade that was broken,The crownless again shall be King. ~ JRR Tolkien, […]
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The Hero’s Journey ~IX~
There is much confusion about the archetype of the Hero. It is generally assumed that the heroic approach to life, or to a task, is the noblest, but this is only partly true. The Hero is, in fact, only an advanced form of Boy psychology – the most advanced form, the peak, actually, of the […]
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The Hero’s Journey ~VIII~
“I suppose I shall be going home soon?“ Bilbo sleepily asked. “As soon as you like,” said the wizard. Actually it was some days before Bilbo really set out. They buried Thorin deep beneath the mountain, and Bard laid the Arkenstone upon his breast. “There let it lie till the Mountain falls!” he said. “May […]
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The Hero’s Journey ~VI~
I come from under the hill,and under the hillsand over the hills my paths led.And through the air. I am he that walks unseen. I am the clue-finder;the web-cutter;the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number. I am he that buries his friends aliveand drowns them,and draws them alive againfrom out of the […]
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Hero’s Journey V
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” ~ Mark Twain [Art: Andy Kehoe]
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Hero’s Journey IV
Come gather ’round people, wherever you roamAnd admit that the waters around you have grownAnd accept that soon you’ll be drenched to boneIf your time to you is worth savingThen you better start swimmin’or you’ll sink like a stoneFor the times, they are a-changin’ Come writers and critics who prophesize with your penAnd keep your […]