Title : "We have not even to risk the adventure alone for the heroes of all time have gone before us. The labyrinth is thoroughly known... we have only to follow the thread of the hero path."
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"We have not even to risk the adventure alone for the heroes of all time have gone before us. The labyrinth is thoroughly known... we have only to follow the thread of the hero path."
"And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a God. And where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves. Where we had thought to travel outwards, we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.”The gallery wall contained a quote from author Joseph Campbell’s book “The Hero with a Thousand Faces” about the hero’s adventure in mythology. Campbell, a literature professor at Sarah Lawrence College in Westchester, coined the phrase “Follow your bliss.”
Here's the Wikipedia entry on Campbell's famous book so you can refresh your memory of this thing you must have learned at one point in your life (I know I did, 50 years ago). Campbell looked at the stories of Osiris, Prometheus, the Buddha, Moses, Mohammed, and Jesus and decided that they were enough alike that they could be boiled down into what he called "the monomyth" (or "hero's journey"):
"The hero's adventure" begins in the ordinary world. He must depart from the ordinary world, when he receives a call to adventure.
Yeah, Hunter did that.
With the help of a mentor...
Joe?
... the hero will cross a guarded threshold, leading him to a supernatural world, where familiar laws and order do not apply.
Drugs?
There, the hero will embark on a road of trials, where he is tested along the way. The archetypal hero is sometimes assisted by allies. As the hero faces the ordeal, he encounters the greatest challenge of the journey. Upon rising to the challenge...
Gets off drugs.
... the hero will receive a reward, or boon.
Art talent!
Campbell's theory of the monomyth continues with the inclusion of a metaphorical death and resurrection. The hero must then decide to return with this boon to the ordinary world. The hero then faces more trials on the road back. Upon the hero's return, the boon or gift may be used to improve the hero's ordinary world, in what Campbell calls, the application of the boon.
He bestows his artwork to the world via this big one-man show in a Soho art gallery.
But wait a minute. To observe that hero myths follow this narrative arc is not to say that any story that follows this narrative arc must be the story of a hero. But you can say that about yourself if you want. Why would you want? Maybe it's helpful to think of yourself as a hero. If Hunter Biden can be a hero, why then, oh, why, can't I?
There must be motivational speakers out there exhorting you to "be the hero of your own story"? A quick google unearths this horrific Joe Rogan pep talk from 2014:
Thus articles "We have not even to risk the adventure alone for the heroes of all time have gone before us. The labyrinth is thoroughly known... we have only to follow the thread of the hero path."
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