This is wonderful, and the point you are making I agree with completely. I would make a slight adjustment, though. I think the problem is not the hero’s journey, as such, but the current tropic expression of the hero’s journey, for the hero’s journey is both a psychological story of the passage from adolescence to adulthood, but also a s…
This is wonderful, and the point you are making I agree with completely. I would make a slight adjustment, though. I think the problem is not the hero’s journey, as such, but the current tropic expression of the hero’s journey, for the hero’s journey is both a psychological story of the passage from adolescence to adulthood, but also a spiritual story of the journey of the soul to God or if you prefer to not use western mystical language, the journey of the innermost self to the ultimate ideal/being. This is emphasized by the Lord of the Rings, for instance, not actually being as simple as portrayed, although the movies do cut out the important nuance that would serve as counterpoints. But I agree, the thing that is lacking is real death, for “unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground *and dies* it remains but a single grain, but if it dies, it will bear much fruit.” We refuse to allow any part of ourself to die, and so we rot into sterility.
This is wonderful, and the point you are making I agree with completely. I would make a slight adjustment, though. I think the problem is not the hero’s journey, as such, but the current tropic expression of the hero’s journey, for the hero’s journey is both a psychological story of the passage from adolescence to adulthood, but also a spiritual story of the journey of the soul to God or if you prefer to not use western mystical language, the journey of the innermost self to the ultimate ideal/being. This is emphasized by the Lord of the Rings, for instance, not actually being as simple as portrayed, although the movies do cut out the important nuance that would serve as counterpoints. But I agree, the thing that is lacking is real death, for “unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground *and dies* it remains but a single grain, but if it dies, it will bear much fruit.” We refuse to allow any part of ourself to die, and so we rot into sterility.