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Thank you We sneak in the hero's journey The return

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i'll ask you What stage is occurred during the heroes

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return So one is the refusal of the return I

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was even thinking of sinbad the sailor which is an

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arab story from the thousand and one nights sinbad does

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not want to go home He's a sailor He always

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wants to be kind of seeking out adventure on the

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high sea and it's only the sort of social expectation

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that what one does is sort of settle down that

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leads him home again Another stage of the return is

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the magic flight on dh that's one where the hero

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is sort of kept by some kind of supernatural force

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from getting home and he has to enact some kind

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of magical or clever way of getting out So what

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Odysseus is trapped by the cyclops odysseus cleans to the

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underside of one of the cyclops is sheep and sort

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of like left himself out that way Another one is

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rescued from without So this is sort of the rare

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moment when hero doesn't save themselves But someone else has

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to come save them and sort of sweep in like

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that moment where you know the heroes on the edge

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of death and you know pick your century right The

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chariot rushes by the airplane rushes by the hot air

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balloon floats by and like someone grabs them and pulls

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him out Then the hero obviously has to get home

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So there's this face called the crossing of the return

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threshold And this is when the hero actually takes all

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of their transformation All the wisdom that they've gained on

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their journey and starts kind of instituting it into their

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life at home the society that they left So you

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can think of odysseus getting home And you know his

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wife penelope has in kind of getting hounded by all

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these suitors and sons at his wit's end And so

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odysseus comes home and starts like instituting order again That's

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really related to the idea of that the hero becomes

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master of two worlds which is an otherwise ending stages

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because the hero now sort of has this knowledge of

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the whole place as well as the wider world And

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so by integrating his understanding of these two places but

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also kind of ways of being he's able to home

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the last one is freedom to live And this is

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this notion that because the hero has kind of conquered

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death symbolically right What's really Congress is the fear of

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death He doesn't have to wonder what if anymore And

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so he's kind of ableto live more at peace What 00:02:57.79 --> [endTime] stage is occurred during the heroes return

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