The Hero’s Journey (Part 2): Walking The Path | Jake Haber

Check out Part 2 of our Hero's Journey series as we explore the steps of Joseph Campbell's framework in more detail, seeing ourselves in the various stages of the path. 

 

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Quotes: 

 

Carlos Castaneda:

“Before you embark on any path ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path”

Thomas Moore: 

"We are on the hero's journey when we submit to the deep processes of life and allow them to affect us and bore their necessities into us. We are the hero when we take on the challenges and go through our initiations and transformations, enduring loss and gain, feeling happy and sad, making progress and falling back. The hero is engaged in life… The hero may not look heroic from the outside but may go through powerful developments in a quiet way. The difference is that the real hero engages life and reflects on it. She becomes more and more what he or she is destined to be"

 

Thomas Lloyd Qualls:

“At one time or another we are all called to leave the safety of our homes, the certainty of what we know, the illusions of who we are. Not everyone will heed this call, of course. And those who do will risk losing themselves completely. But if we choose to ignore the invitation, we risk never knowing who we might have become. We risk dying without knowing what it is to live” 

Joseph Campbell:

“Furthermore, 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; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, 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”

 

Joseph Campbell:

"What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, and the fulfillment or the fiasco. There's always the possibility of fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss"

 

Discussion Questions: 

At the current moment, is there a specific stage of the Hero’s Journey that you are most resonating with? 

Share a memory or past experience that was a crucial part of your Hero’s Journey, and what stage you think it might have been.