This is a quick summary of The Hero's Journey stages by Joseph Campbell.
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"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls."
Featuring Jungian Analyst, Author and Activist Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD and her latest book Artemis The Indomitable Spirit in Everywoman, presented at the UN Commission on the Status of Women 59 (2015), in support of a Fifth World Conference on Women (5WCW).
This video focuses on what are regarded as the four major Jungian Archetypes: The Self, the Persona, the Shadow, and the Anima/Animus.
Dr. Robert Johnson discusses the Mother Complex that is in most western males in his film In Search of the Holy Grail.
Joseph Campbell continues exploring C.G. Jung’s idea of the Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious by looking at Jung’s concept of the Persona/Personae - the aspects of one’s personality that been shaped from outside, by the society in which one lives.
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Joseph Campbell begins exploring C.G. Jung’s idea of the Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious by looking at Jung’s concepts of the Self and of the Ego, and begins discussing how myth communicates between the two.
Joseph Campbell continues exploring C.G. Jung’s idea of the Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious by looking at Jung’s concept of the Shadow - the aspects of one’s personality that one has submerged - and looks at how it serves as a wellspring for dream and myth.
Archetypal energies beckon us to live a larger life. We are all healers, warriors, visionaries and teachers, but often these potentials remain in latent form. Through song, dance, storytelling and meditation we can activate these archetypes.
I don't think the hero's journey is a useless archetype. I think it's a powerful archetype. It's just like we've made everything about it, as if it is THE map for life.
In this video we explore the relationship between mythology and the unconscious, and look at the monomyth Joseph Campbell called the myth of the hero’s journey.