The Hero’s Journey... Joseph Campbell # 3

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Speaker 0 (0s): Is two big, giant metrics back. They look at me and judge me by my side is where you don't ever let somebody tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. All right. You've got a dream. You've got to protect it. People can't do something themselves.

They want to tell you, you can't do it. You want something? Go get it, period. Does it get easier? No yes. It gets easier. Yeah.

The more, you know who you are and what you want, the less, they look at things of say, you know, yeah,

Speaker 1 (1m 25s): I said it before, and I'll say it again. Life moves pretty fast.

Speaker 0 (1m 30s): You don't stop and look around once in a while you could miss It PMC things that have started a few things you never felt before you meet people was a different point of view. Hope you live a life. You proud. If you find that you're not hope you have the strength.

And again,

Speaker 1 (2m 7s): Welcome back heroes and heroines friends. Good. Look at people and intelligent forces of nature. I was so happy. You're back. I am digging this Joseph Campbell. I'm trying to really integrate some of these mythological journeys into my life. It's easy to do. Once you begin to understand the hero's journey. Once you began to understand the power of myth, you can really integrate into your life.

And I think you can make your life as well as the life of the people around you. Better.

Speaker 0 (2m 47s): Interesting and enjoyable. Let's jump right in here.

Speaker 1 (2m 55s): The question will begin with, to mr. Campbell is given you know about human beings. Is it conceivable that there is a part of wisdom beyond the conflicts of truth and illusion by which our lives can be put back together again? Can we develop new models, Joseph Campbell, they are already here in the religions. All religions have been true for their time.

If you can recognize the enduring aspect of their truth and separate it from the temporal applications, you've got it. We have spoken about it right here, the sacrifice of physical desires and fears of the body to that, which spiritually supports the body is the body learning to know and express its own deepest life in the field of time.

One way or another. We all have to find what the best Foster's the flowing of our humanity in this contemporary life and dedicate ourselves to that. Not the first Cause, but a higher Cause Joseph Campbell. I would say a more inward Cause hire is just up there and there is no up there. We know that that old man up there has been blown away.

You've got to find the force inside you. This is why Oriental gurus are so convincing. Two young people today, they say is in you go in and find it. But isn't it only the very few who can face the challenge of a new truth and put their lives and a quarter with it. Joseph Campbell, no, not at all. A few, maybe the teacher's and the leader, but this is something that anybody can respond to just as anybody has the potential to run out, to save a child.

It is within Everybody to recognize value's in his life that are not confined to maintenance of the body and economic concerns of the day. When I was a boy and red Knights of the round table, that myth stirred me to think that I could be a Hero. I wanted to go out and do battle with dragons. I wanted to go into the dark forest and slate evil. What does it say to you that myths can because the son of an Oklahoma farmer to think of himself as a Hero Joseph Campbell myths inspire the realization of the possibility of your perfection, the fullness of your strength and the bringing of solar light into the world.

Slaying monsters is slaying the dark thing. Myths, grab you somewhere down inside as a boy, you go at it one way. As I did reading my Indian stories later on myths, tell you more and more and still more. I think that anyone who has ever dealt seriously with religious or mythic ideas will tell you that we learned them as a child on one level, but then many different levels are revealed. Myths are infinite in the revelation.

How do I slay that dragon in MI what's the journey. Each of us has to make what you call the soul's high adventure. Joseph Campbell, my general formula for my students is follow your bliss, find where it is, and don't be afraid to follow it. Is it my work or my life Joseph Campbell. If the work that you are doing is the word that you chose to do because you are enjoying it.

That's it. But if you think, Oh no, I couldn't do that. That's the dragon locking you in? No, No I couldn't be a writer or no, no, I couldn't possibly do what so-and-so was doing in this sense. Unlike heroes, such as Prometheus's or Jesus, we're not going on our journey to save the world, but to save ourselves Joseph Campbell. But in doing that, you saved the world, the influence of a vital person.

Vitalizes there's no doubt about it. The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules and who's on top and so forth. No No any world is a valid world. If it's alive, the thing to do is to bring life to it. And the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.

When I take that journey and go down there and slay those dragons, do I have to go alone? Joseph Campbell, if you have someone who can help you, that's fine too. But ultimately the last deed has to be done by oneself. Psychologically, the dragon is one's own binding of oneself to one's ego. We are captured in our own dragon cage. The problem of the psychiatrist is to disintegrate that dragon break it up so that you may expand to a larger field of relationships.

The ultimate dragon is within you. It is your ego clamping you down. What, what is my ego, Joseph Campbell, what you think you want, what you will to believe, what you think you can afford, what you decide to love, what you regard yourself as bound to be. It may be all much to small in which case it will nail you down. And if you simply do what your neighbors tell you to do, you're certainly going to be down.

Your neighbors are then your dragon, as it reflects from within yourself are a Western dragons represent greed. However, the Chinese dragon is different. It represents the vitality of the swamps and comes up, beating its belly and bellowing, right? Yeah. I'd say a lovely kind of dragon. One that yields the bounty of the water is a great glorious gift. But the dragon of our Western tails tries to collect and keep everything to himself.

And his secret cave. He guards things, heaps of gold and perhaps a captured Virgin. He doesn't know what to do with either. So he just guard's and keeps it. There are people like that and we call them creeps. There is no life from them, no giving. They just glue themselves to you and hangs around and try to suck out your life. Carl Young had a patient who came to him because she felt herself to be a lone in the world, on the rocks.

And when she drew a picture for him up how she felt their, she was on the shore of a dismal seed, khat and rocks from the waist down, the wind was blowing and her hair was blowing. And all the gold, all the joy of life was locked away from her in the rocks. The next picture that she drew, however, followed something that he had said to her, a flash of lightening strikes, the rocks and a golden disc is being lifted out. There is no more gold box within the rock to have a goal old and patches.

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