Education Support Services Thought of the Week Archives March 1998 “…the two worlds of the traditional and the industrial are diametrically opposed. The indigenous world, in trying to emulate Nature, espouses a walk with life, a slow, quiet day-to-day kind of existence. The modern world, on the other hand, steams through life like a locomotive, […]
Education Support Services Thought of the Week Archives June 1998 I have always found the notion that we share with all other human beings certain common ways of thinking, feeling, and imagining something rather easy to understand and accept. Indeed, how could it be otherwise? Do we not all have mothers and fathers? Do we […]
Education Support Services Thought of the Week Archives December 1997 December 8 … [hero] myths are not fictitious stories of imaginery characters in nonexistent countries. Rather, the monomyth of the Hero’s Journey is an accurate description of the experiential territories visited by people in visionary states during transformative crisis. And as the psychospiritual crisis of […]
Education Support Services Thought of the Week Archives August 1998 The true mandala is always an inner image, which is gradually built up through (active) imagination, at such times when psychic equilibrium is disturbed or when a thought cannot be found and must be sought for, because it is not contained in holy doctrine. […]
Education Support Services Thought of the Week Archives December 1998 The first thing we notice in a creative act is that it is an encounter. Artists encounter the landscape they propose to pain — they look at it, observe it from this angle and that. They are, as we say, absorbed in it. Or, in […]
Harris Communications Hero’s Journey Article and Essay archive Click on the title to read the article. This index contains titles or subjects of articles, essays and comments on this site along with a brief description. Articles are stand-alone pieces, while essays and comments tend to be my responses or observations on a Thought of […]
(Note: This material is copyrighted. Please see our copyright notice.) (This article was adapted from The Hero’s Journey: A Guide to Literature and Life. It is for your information only. Please respect my copyright and my work. DO NOT reproduce this material without written permission. ) (revised May 18, 2007) The Pattern of Human Experience […]
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Return to Home Page “In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.” Eric Hoffer (Note: This material is copyrighted. Please see our copyright notice.) by Reg Harris I have been teaching the hero’s journey […]
Return to Home Page ” …Whether the hero happens to gain a princess, a kingdom, a healing medicine, a talisman, or some other reward appears immaterial. He actually earns self-integration, balance, wisdom, and spiritual health. In every case…the phantasmagorical adventures of the hero symbolize inner development.” Alexander Eliot The Universal Myths (Note: This material […]
Education Support Services Thought of the Week Archives November 2000 No other part of our personality reveals our basic temperament, our fundamental way of working, more than does our dark side — the part of ourselves which illogically unfolds at its own time and which has its own requirements. I’m referring to our uncontrollable impulses, […]
Education Support Services Thought of the Week Archives October 1999 …the world in which we live is very nearly incomprehensible to most of us. There is almost no fact – whether actual or imagined – that will surprise us for very long, since we have no comprehensive and consistent picture of the world which would […]
Education Support Services Thought of the Week Archives August 1999 [Bly here is writing about Jung’s archetype of the Shadow, that part of our subconscious where, as we are growing up, we stuff all of the feelings, emotions, desires and actions which are not socially acceptable. Unfortunately, no matter how much we try to deny […]
The Hero's Journey: A resource for educators, teachers, and students
Return to Home Page “I’m ready for anything.” Luke Skywalker Star Wars (just before he enters the cantina, where is nearly killed) (Note: This material is copyrighted. Please see our copyright notice.) (“Threshold Guardians” is an excerpt from The Hero’s Journey: A Guide to Literature and Life, Teacher’s Guide, by Reg Harris and Susan Thompson, […]