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Join us for part one of the Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell. We'll find out who he is, what he's responsible for, and if he has anything to do with...
Join us for part two of the Hero's Journey: The Three Stages. It'll be way less fun than watching the Three Stooges.
Join us for part three of the Hero's Journey: Archetypes. Then, feel free to send us a letter about your favorite archetype, which we may or may no...
Hero's Journey 10 The Main Archetypes 977 Views
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Join us for part ten of the Hero's Journey: The Main Archetypes. Spoiler alert: there's always going to be one you hate.
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Thank you We sneak in The hero's journey The main
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archetypes Eyelash mitt What are the seven main archetypes of
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the mon Amiss They are the hero who has been
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talking about the hair All you know hark the herald
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angels sing kind of predicts or tell informs the hero
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that something's come in The men core So the character
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that sort of helps i mean it's a mentor self
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explanatory threshold guardians So folks that are sort of offering
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that first initial challenge as the hero leaves their mundane
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life sort of crosses the threshold into heroism The trickster
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So someone that is sort of presenting things as may
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be different than they really are right So usually the
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hero has to triumph not just by brute strength but
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also by kind of intelligence and wits rights of ideas
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that the trickster is out to trick them And the
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trickster is an interesting one because an african mythology on
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and also in some native american mythologies the tricks sister
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is really kind of revered figure An idea that there's
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ambiguity in the universe is not something that's rejected as
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in western mythology it's something that's actually embraced Two others
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are the shapeshifter and the shadow So these air to
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more examples to can follow up What i just said
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of challenges that really sort of show that campbell's understanding
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this very western right has shape shifters and some cultures
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are very powerful and khun b positive forces But campbell
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likes things to be what they are and so shape
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shifters air really threatening his life The shadow i think
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is another sort of you know force of darkness that
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again this kind of dangerous and is still hiding and
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obscured What are the seven main archetypes of the mon 00:02:11.218 --> [endTime] amiss
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