Inspired by Joseph Campbell The Hero’s Journey The 3 Stages & Steps

JOSEPH CAMPBELL Joseph Campbell first established his fame in the 1940s with the book “Hero With 1000 Faces He then built on that fame with a four-volume study of world mythology called “The Masks of God” The basic idea is that heroes all follow the same path

THE HERO CYCLE 3. RETURN 2. INITIATION 1. DEPARTURE THE HERO’S JOURNEY 3.2. MAGICAL FLIGHT 3.1. REFUSAL OF BOON 3.3. SAVIORS TO SAVE ONE & ALL 2.6. THE ULTIMATE BOON/ MIRACLES/ INSIGHTS 3.4. CROSSING THE RETURN THRESHOLD 2.5. APOTHEOSIS/ NIRVANA ONENESS 3.5. MASTERS OF TWO WORLDS 3. RETURN 2. INITIATION 3.6. FREEDOM TO LIVE IN POWER 2.4. ATONEMENT WITH POTENTIAL THE HERO’S JOURNEY 1.1. ORDINARY WORLD 1. DEPARTURE 2.3. EGO TEMPTATIONS 1.2. CALL TO ADVENTURE 2.2 EMBRACING YOUR PASSION 1.3. REFUSING THE CALL 2.1. ROAD OF TRIALS 1.4. EXCEPTIONAL AID/ SYNCHRONICITY 1.5. CROSSING THE FIRST THRESHOLD 1.6. BELLY OF THE WHALE INNERMOST CAVE

THE HERO CYCLE 1.2 CALL TO ADVENTURE 1.3 REFUSING THE CALL 1.5 CROSSING THE FIRST THRESHOLD 1.6 BELLY OF THE WHALE 2.1 ROAD OF TRIALS 2.2 EMBRACING YOUR PASSION 2.3 EGO TEMPTATIONS 2.4 ATONEMENT WITH POTENTIAL 3.2 MAGICAL FLIGHT 3.3 SAVIORS TO SAVE ONE AND ALL

1.2. CALL TO ADVENTURE Being drawn towards and away from values, people, situations The basic motif of the hero journey is one with a death and a resurrection…leaving one condition, finding the source of life to bring you forth in a richer or more mature or other condition

1.3. REFUSING THE CALL Being lured is the first method/device that begins the hero’s journey The second method is where the hero sets out intentionally to perform a deed A third method is where the hero is thrown or pitched against their will

1.5. CROSSING THE THRESHOLD This point is where the hero is about to embark on his/her journey, from their known world into the outlying spaces This is the jumping off point where the hero meets people who have been where he/she is going to go

1.6. BELLY OF THE WHALE

2.1. ROAD OF TRIALS Now that you have committed to the journey, you question and doubt your decision, encounter “hurdles” The word “serendipity” comes from the Sanskrit word “Serendripa” Think Han Solo…he starts the story as a mercenary and ends up as a hero

2.2. EMBRACING YOUR PASSION When/where they go into regions “where no one has gone before” The old man (Obi Wan) as the advisor, especially in the scene with his protégé (Luke) Telling Luke to “let go his conscious self and act on instinct”

2.3. EGO TEMPTATIONS When the Buddha comes to the Bodhi Tree…he undergoes three temptations of lust, fear, and social duty/doing what you’re told…these aren’t the same three temptations of Christ (bread, dominion, protection), but there are three

2.4. ATONEMENT WITH POTENTIAL One is the physical deed…the hero has performed a war act or a hero act, such as saving a life The other is the spiritual deed…the hero has found or learned a higher mode or supernormal range of experiencing human life

3.2. MAGICAL FLIGHT Running away from responsibility seems inviting I didn’t signup for this “Do you think that you shall enter the garden of bliss without such trials as those who passed before you?” (2:214) All the myths deal with this using a concept called Transformation of Consciousness

3.3. SAVIORS TO SAVE ONE AND ALL Save yourself? Reconnection to your greater purpose While stories do have similarities from one culture to the next, it is the degree of illumination and how far the hero progresses in his/her journey that changes No where do we see this more easily than the “slaying monsters” myth

CONCLUSION “Where we had thought to find an abomination we shall find a god. Where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence. Where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.” ~ Joseph Campbell