By: Noel Liemam on February 5, 2023
Self-Reflection Ups, downs and pushing forward is how I felt I should do in this journey. Since being accepted into this program, I was so thankful with this privilege and cannot wait to start. As I started, I kind of realize that this format is so foreign to me, sometimes I contemplate giving in, and…
By: Jana Dluehosh on February 3, 2023
This last Wednesday was Feast of Saint Brigid, both a Celtic pagan festival and a Saints Day for the Irish Catholic Church. “Rites of initiation and installation, then, teach the lesson of the essential oneness of the individual and the group: seasonal festivals open a larger horizon;” [1]. This feast day and festival is for…
By: Dinka Utomo on February 3, 2023
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frighten us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of…
By: Todd E Henley on February 2, 2023
Webster’s dictionary defines a hero as: a: a mythological or legendary figure often of divine descent endowed with great strength or ability b: an illustrious warrior c: a person admired for achievements and noble qualities d: one who shows great courage [1] According to Mr. Webster we are all heroes in some type of way.…
By: Esther Edwards on February 2, 2023
Knowing that Campbell grounded himself in the teachings of Jung and Freud, gave me the first clue that this was going to be an interesting read. As I waded through begrudgingly, I honestly was thankful for the gift of inspectional reading since I found Campbell getting lost in the weeds of his own thinking, leaving…
By: Pam Lau on February 2, 2023
When I was a young girl growing up in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, I spent endless hours playing outside in the woods behind our house. Most times I was with the neighborhood children exploring the trails, paths, lakes and forests building forts and, if we were lucky, collecting turtles. If I wasn’t out exploring the…
By: Adam Harris on February 2, 2023
Wow. Where to begin with Joseph Campbell’s, The Hero With A Thousand Faces? This is one of those books that has been on my radar for years after reading The Power of Myth, but I never quite got around to reading this one. It is dense, complex, and pulls together multiple fields of study to…
By: Mathieu Yuill on February 1, 2023
I was excited to tackle the reading this week. I’m a StoryBrand[1] Guide and use the hero’s journey as one of the introductory workshops we take clients through at my marketing and communications company, Leading With Nice., when we onboard them. I was familiar with Joseph Campbell’s[2] work the same way a lifelong Christian might…
By: Scott Dickie on February 1, 2023
I find myself genuinely conflicted as I engage with Joseph Campbell’s concept of a Hero’s Journey. As a result, this blog is a bit of a dog’s breakfast! As an evaluation and summary of global mythological stories and the similar journeys each hero takes, it is clearly a distinguished work. As a sociological concept suggesting…
By: Jennifer Vernam on February 1, 2023
In reading Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces [1] I am disturbed by the implications it has on my reading of the Bible. If we are all telling a story with the same archetypes, aren’t we just all telling the same story? How can the Bible be the greatest story ever told if…
By: Jenny Dooley on February 1, 2023
In reading through Joseph Campbell’s, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, I found that mythological stories serve a similar purpose to that of iconography. I had the experience of seeing through to deeper truths and meaning behind the fantastical tales I read. Myths are like icons. They are windows to a new way of understanding,…
By: Travis Vaughn on January 31, 2023
Luke Skywalker. That name and that story probably arranged more of the furniture in my young mind than any other hero’s story. As I grew older, married, and had children, there were many other “similar” adventures to invade the life of our growing family. The Princes Bride, The Matrix, Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Narnia,…
By: Jonita Fair-Payton on January 30, 2023
The Hero With A Thousand Faces is a book about discovering ourselves through myths and stories. It was my intention to complete the reading and the blog a week ahead to give myself time to pay greater attention to the posts of my cohort. I have discovered that writing on Thursday does not allow me…
By: John Fehlen on January 30, 2023
From 2004-2010 American television had a show that ran for six seasons on ABC. The show was called LOST, and I, along with my family and close friends, were HOOKED. Each week we would tune in live, or watch it downloaded from iTunes, to see what was gonna happen to Hugo, Sawyer, Jack, Sayid, Kate,…
By: Tim Clark on January 30, 2023
According to Time Magazine, Joseph Campbell wrote one of the 100 most influential books of the 20th century in “The Hero With A Thousand Faces.”[1] I had been exposed to Campbell’s work through a Psychology course I took as an undergraduate; we were assigned to watch “The Power of Myth”, the 1988 series of PBS…
By: Noel Liemam on January 30, 2023
Threshold Concept “…that knowledge should indeed be ‘troubling’ in order for it to be transformative, this book provides new perspectives on helping students through such conceptual difficulty in order to enhance learning and teaching environments (Meyer and land, 2006).” The barriers to understanding exits when intellectual and practical comprehension is absent. Basically, one can crosses…
By: Russell Chun on January 30, 2023
I have two things in common with Joseph Campbell, we both grew up as Catholic/Animists. As a reminder, “Animism is the belief that everything has a soul or spirit, an anima in Latin, including animals, plants, rocks, mountains, rivers, and stars. Animists believe each anima is a powerful spirit that can help or hurt them…
By: Kim Sanford on January 30, 2023
Joseph Campbell’s seminal work points to an underlying reality that myth and story speak to the human heart (or as Campbell would call it, the psyche). Through story we instruct, we connect, we inspire and persuade, and we even rejoice. It’s also how we deal with our imperfection, our brokenness. As Campbell says, “Modern literature…
By: Kally Elliott on January 29, 2023
(Note: I have no idea why the font changes from a light black to a bolded black. I played with all the options to change font and boldness, etc and nothing would work.) Most of us have probably read the quote by Joseph Campbell, “Follow your bliss.” I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it on many…
By: Cathy Glei on January 29, 2023
First Stage of the Journey: Call to Adventure It is a scary place to be. . . the moment you leave the status quo and pursue a call to adventure. It was March 23, 2021 for me. I was an elementary school teacher, Kindergarten, to be exact. School was supposed to be closed for two…
