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Hero's Journey 1 Joseph Campbell
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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...

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Hero's Journey 2 The Three Stages
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Join us for part two of the Hero's Journey: The Three Stages. It'll be way less fun than watching the Three Stooges. 

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Hero's Journey 3 Archetypes
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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...

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Hero's Journey 7 The Initiation 75 Views


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Join us for part seven of the Hero's Journey: The Initiation. We promise, there are no weird hazing rituals in this video. 

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Thank you We sneak in The hero's journey The initiation

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eyelash What stage is occurred during the hero's initiation The

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initiation stage is more about tests and challenges right So

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the hero kind of accepts that he has been called

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to this task and now he has to get tested

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So the first one is the road of trials and

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this is pretty basic It's just like there are tests

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right I used to read a lot of italian folk

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tales as a kid There was this great book i

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used to read and there were so many stories where

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some prince had to go find something and at the

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beginning of the story he meets someone who says on

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your journey you're going to need like golden compass and

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three care away seeds and this reptile's foot for something

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right So that's the mythological help But then later he

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goes on and all these sorts of weird magical tests

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befall him And you know it's kind of up to

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him like is he smart enough to know Oh it's

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ah whatever it wants carraway seeds like he has to

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kind of employ the resource is that he was given

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before to sort of beat these tests that come what 00:01:28.717 --> [endTime] stage is occurred during the hero's initiation

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