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Role Models. We want to strive to be like someone who is better than we are.

We want someone to pave the way for all of us –someone to “break the mold”

We want someone to make the world safe at an unsafe or uncertain time.

A theorist who closely studied comparative mythology and comparative religion.

Focused largely on the role of the hero in his studies, and discovered a pattern (an archetype) that spanned time and culture…

Wrote The Hero With a Thousand Faces, a book that explores the presence of the hero myth across time and cultures

The Self-doubting Hero

The Lost Soul

The Chief

The Bad Boy

The Best Friend

The Charmer

The Professor

The Swashbuckler

The Warrior

The Known

The Unknown or Shadow Realm

STAGE ONE: SEPARATION

STAGE TWO: INITIATION

STAGE THREE: RETURN

Call to Adventure

Threshold Guardians

Crossing the Threshold

Supernatural Aid

Atonement with the Father

Transformation/ Revelation

Ultimate Boon

The Return

Reward(Freedom to Live)

STAGE 1: SEPARATIONA. Call to AdventureB. Supernatural Aid (Helpers): A

guide or magical helper appears to assist with the journey.

C. Crossing the Threshold: The move from the known and comfortable world into the unknown world (The Shadow Realm).

STAGE 2: INITIATIONA. The Road of Trials (Tests): Series of tasks

that the hero must undergo to begin the transformation.

STAGE 2: INITIATION (Continued)

Atonement with the father (Supreme test): Center point of the journey; this is when the hero must confront whatever holds ultimate authority in his life. To understand himself, the hero must reckon with this ultimate authority figure. This will typically result in some transformation and revelation that the hero must understand in order to achieve his goal.

STAGE 2: INITIATION (Continued)C. Ultimate Boon: The achievement of the goal

of the journey.

STAGE 3: THE RETURNA. The Crossing of the

Return ThresholdB. The Master of the Two

Worlds/The Freedom to Live (Reward): The hero is now comfortable and confident in both the known world and the shadow realm and is free to live in the moment.