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Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes to Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform Our World
Carol Pearson • 1 highlight
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(For more information on these archetypes as they play out in the psyches of individuals, see Carol Pearson’s Awakening the Heroes Within. For more information on their roles in forming organizational cultures, see her book Invisible Forces.)2
Carol S. Pearson • The Hero and the Outlaw
The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling
Stephen Cope • 14 highlights
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In The Soul's Code, Mr. Hillman introduces the concept of the daimon. Daimon is a Greek word. The equivalent term in Latin is genius. Both words refer to an inhering spirit. We are born, each of us, (says James Hillman) with our own individual daimon. The daimon is our guardian. It knows our destiny. It kens our calling.
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
The Magician in each one of us helps find the story that both honestly represents and genuinely ennobles both our individual and collective lives.
Carol Pearson • Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes to Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform Our World
Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
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In more recent times, psychologist James Hillman spoke of the Daimon—in his so-called “acorn theory” of personality—variously as the Soul, Calling, or Vocation. The idea is that there lies within each person a latent blueprint of their unique character and destiny, much like an acorn embodies the potential to become a particular oak tree.