Reply To: How Many Steps in the Hero’s Journey?
It is a reduction to the basic core: birth, blessing, death and resurrection (“…out from the Dark Appears an Angel of Fire, to vanish in those flames again…”). Omittted are the borders and translators. Curious difference in perspectives from either side of the Atlantic! Where you are reducing the circle to a square, I’m adding the ‘missing pieces’ to get the wobbling story truly ’round’. I’ve already posting something alike here, but seen from the three basic strata of consiousness, the instinct is the simplest one, squareness fits its voice. The Heros Journey is the emotional level, causing havoc and bliss. Ruling science of our daily life is the language of reason. Do not explain emotions, and feelings does not fill hungry hearts.