Hello Arlo,
Coincidentially, I have been reading Joe Campbells "Hero with a thousand faces"
concerning
the hero's journey which plays right in with what you are talking about.
"The two worlds, the divine and the human, can be pictured only as distinct
from eachother-
different as life and death, as day and night. The hero adventures out of the
land we know
into darkness; there he accomplishes his adventure, or again is simply lost to
us, imprisoned
or in danger; and his return is described as a coming back out of that yonder
zone. Never the
less-and here is a great key to understanding of myth and symbol- the two
kingdoms are actually
one. The realm of the gods is a forgotton dimension of the world we know. And
the exploration
of that dimension , either willingly or unwillingly, is the whole sense of the
deed of the hero."
He adds:
"There must always remain, however, , from the standpoint of normal waking
consciousness, a
certain baffling inconsistancy between wisdom brought forth from the deep and
the prudence
usually found to be effective in the light world. Hence the common divorce of
opportunism from
virtue and the resultant degeneration of human existence."
"Lilas journey is everybody journey"
..
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