![]() ![]() For myself, and for most it takes a lifetime to complete. Why is it important to us today? Simple, The Heroes Journey is a journey we eventually all embark upon to discover who we are, and why we are here. Many powerful stories such as Star Wars always incorporate the Hero’s Journey into their action narrative. ![]() There are 3 basic steps, the departure, the initiation and finally the return. In concise terms it starts with a man or woman who ventures forth from the ordinary common life into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow-man. The point being that all through mans story telling and cultures a similar pattern and life lesson is told to instruct the new generation how to live. ![]() This widely distributed story pattern was described by Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949).Ĭampbell held that numerous myths from various historical times and cultures share the same fundamental structures and stages. Scholar Joseph Campbell’s the H ero’s Journey, is a basic pattern found in many cultural defining stories from around the world. ![]()
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