the hero's journey sometimes gets formulated as "you must go into the unknown, & bring something back"
I think there's a second, overlooked way: "you must go into the unknown - & bring others with you."
some people never 'come back' - they discover somewhere new & stay there
Rudra Dakinix.comthe hero's journey sometimes gets formulated as "you must go into the unknown, & bring something back" I think there's a second, overlooked way: "you must go into the unknown - & bring others with you." some people never 'come back' - they discover somewhere new & stay there
When the hero shows up he always appears out of nowhere, riding on horseback, and when he leaves he disappears into the landscape, moving anonymously towards the horizon. There’s a vagueness about where he comes from and where he’s heading. All these things point to some deep-rooted, inherent principles that have to do with nomadic versus sedentary
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That story not only has Action, it has a Hero. Heroes are powerful. Before you know it, the men and women in the wild-oat patch and their kids and the skills of the makers and the thoughts of the thoughtful and the songs of the singers are all part of it, have all been pressed into service in the tale of the Hero. But it isn’t their story. It’s his
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The last paragraph of Campbell’s The Hero With A Thousand Faces:
the modern hero who dares to heed the call… cannot, indeed must not, wait for his community to cast of its slough of pride, fear, avarice, sanctified misunderstanding
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