Conclusion
Jung, Campbell and their followers reach far below the surface of conscious thought. They awaken our senses and alert our deepest knowing, a knowing that even the most scholarly can only feebly allude to with limited vocabulary. This visceral reaction that erupts in us when we suddenly feel the unknown become known, this feeling that is all at once earth shattering and minuscule in its simplicity, these deeply personal moments of transcendence that move us from one stage of life to the next are age old and universal yet can only be experienced by the individual. For this author there is a sense of comfort, excitement, and willingness to forge ahead that comes with the knowledge of the hero’s journey. The path is available to us if we allow ourselves to put one foot in front of the other.
For those of us who find ourselves disheartened by an increasingly global lack of concern for the earth, for those of us who find only hypocrisy and separatism in the monotheistic religions, for those of us who feel disconnected and that there must be something more, perhaps the answers are not out there. Maybe all that can be known is available within us but we have been looking in the wrong place. If life must be approached in terms of opposites, then we have but to spend equal time within. If we are all heroes at varying stages in our journey, possibly, through the use of symbolism and mythology we can directly approach that which needs healing.
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