An Inuit In Alaska Or George Lucas

In Joseph Campbell’s seminal work “The Hero With A Thousand Faces”, he outlines the Hero’s Journey. His premise is that our collective unconscious produces the same journey, the same story, whether you are an Inuit in Alaska or George Lucas. An important step in the journey is destruction of the self. In Greek mythology, this was accomplished by the actual burning of the hero’s physical body, releasing the spirit from the ashes. This phase can also be accomplished by the destruction of the ego. The hero must humble himself before the gods. Only after complete humiliation and ego destruction can the hero continue on to self fulfillment.

I farted in the Kayak meeting.