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the myth of the hero, a cross-cultural theme explored psychoanalytically by Otto Rank,
Jordan B. Peterson • 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“The psyche’s job is to keep us blissfully ignorant of who we are, what we think, and how we’ll behave in any situation. We’re all operating in a dense fog of mutual reinforcement.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
And a sensation came over me, a sort of lovely fear, that made me think of Boughton's fear of angels. Now, I may have been more than half asleep at that point, but a thought arose that abides with me. I wished I could sit at the feet of that eternal soul and learn. He did then seem to me the angel of himself, brooding over the mysteries his mortal
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He is not the author, there is a prophetic figure in him whom he then steps back from. There’s a differentiation of the voices.
Sonu Shamdasani • Lament of the Dead
It’s a human need to be told stories. The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. — Alan Rickman
Dan Kennedy • Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling
… we’re under the spell of those who love us — I mean those who really really love us — and we wind up floating off the ground, like balloons, though no one sees, the only ones who see are those who love us, those who really really love us, and they rise up on tiptoe, give a little hop, just a bounce, and grab hold of our legs, which at this point
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