A hero ventures forth from the world
of common day into a region of
supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces
are there encountered and a decisive
victory is won.

The hero is the champion of things becoming, not of things become, because he is.

The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us; the uncanny discovery that the seeker is the mystery which the seeker seeks to know. The hero journey is a symbol that binds, in the original sense of the word, two distant ideas, the spiritual quest of the ancients with the modern search for identity, always the one, shape-shifting yet marvelously constant story that we find.

When the serpent is slithering inside, you will know it, but only with the gift will you understand how it lives and how it dies.

When the hero is ready, the mentor appears.

A one sentence definition of mythology? "Mythology" is what we call someone else's religion