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The Hero Within

By Carol S. Pearson — 2016

Some of the stories we live are archetypal, and thus could provide us with a greater sense of meaning, mattering, and purpose if we were aware of them.

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Simone Biles More than Earned the Right to Win a Medal for Herself

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Transformative Media: From the Hero’s Journey to Our Collective Journey

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Maya Zuckerman
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What About the Heroine’s Journey?

The Harvard scholar Maria Tatar has made a career of studying fairy tales and folklore. Now she is taking aim at Joseph Campbell and showing us the women he left out of the story.

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Archetypes