![]() We only need to think of Jonah and Jesus, Odysseus and Aeneas, not to mention, in American culture, Washington, Lincoln, Sojourner Truth, MLK, among many others. There is some capture, symbolized in different ways, which indicates a “going under,” a night sea journey, a neykia, a type of death and resurrection. Thus condensed is the underlying pattern. Often the monster is killed by the hero lighting a fire inside him-that is to say, in the very womb of death he secretly creates life, the rising sun. He journeys by ship, fights the sea monster, is swallowed, struggles against being bitten and crushed to death (kicking or struggling motif), and having arrived inside the ‘whale-dragon,’ seeks the vital organ, which he proceeds to cut off or otherwise destroy. Jung beautifully summarizes the archaic and “typical mythological motifs” (par. There is a pattern to the hero myth that is worth exploring, if we are to get out of the ways in which we have been captured. I recently had the pleasure of rereading Carl Jung’s classic, Symbols of Transformation (CW 5, cited below by paragraph) and was struck by how truly foundational the hero myth is to a culture, a civilization, and human development itself. ![]() This task gives me so much to do that I have no time or any other”.When it was suggested a few years ago that one could prefer a hero who doesn’t get captured, it was another one of those decline and fall moments of “there goes the culture.” Why and how could this reveal a big deal? The myth of the hero is one of foundations of human culture. This act of faith is indeed why I s well say, like CGJung: “What is important and meaningful to my life is that I shall live as fully as possible to fulfill the divine will within me. I believe the ‘strength/joy/peace that eventually commes out of the daily meditative practice of this presence is what all hope for. ![]() It is indeed a permanent presence after awhile. The answers to the questions asked were so spot on, resonated so trongly that I began to sense the presence of the Christ within. DOing so revealed the synchronity menionned by Jung at work in the process. On June 18th of this past year, I consciously entered in a daily dialogue with the CHrist within, reading intuitively from the Epistles of Paul. After a major enlightening event, i began to read CGJ’s view as it was providing a frame for what I was experiencing. I am 69 years ofage and have undergone the transformation process that all are called to but few are willing to undertake. Thankyou for havong found and shared this quote. And why don’t you hoe the rows deeper? And I why don’t you tie up your vines?” And all the while, his own garden, behind him, is full of weeds. Be what God means you to be don’t worry about mankind which doesn’t exist, you are avoiding looking at what does exist-the self You are like a man who leans over his neighbor’s fence and says to him: “Look, there is a weed. Christ, the Logos-that is to say, the mind, the understanding, shining into the darkness. As more and more thinking men come to it, this is the spiritual rebirth of the world. This is the truth of the birth and the resurrection of Christ within. But a man conscious of what I am, and of what I am doing. What nature asks of the apple-tree is that it shall bring forth apples, and of the pear-tree that it shall bring forth pears. We would have a meaningful life and not what we have now-madness. Let me point out that if we were all to live in that way we would need no armies, no police, no diplomacy, no politics, no banks. This task gives me so much to do that I have no time or any other. What is important and meaningful to my life is that I shall live as fully as possible to fulfill the divine will within me.
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