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"...what Campbell called the monomyth is being told over and over. At its core is the journey of a single hero, answering the "call to adventure". ... So what are the basic elements of that story? The first involves the society in which the hero belongs: hunkered against the unfamiliar, dark and shifting forces beyond its borders, the hero's society has defined its world authoritatively and shaped itself to confirm that definition; but its very adherence to that definition compromises its ability to transform. What cannot transform is stuck. ...In answering the call to adventure, the hero has to make a journey: he has to transgress the boundaries that society has set for itself. ... As Campbell puts it, the hero cannot, indeed must not, wait for his community to cast off its slough of pride, fear, rationalized avarice, and sanctified misunderstanding. "Live", Nietzche says, "as though the day were here." It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse."
"The hero's task is not to threaten his society, nor to take it over tyranically with his newfound perspective, nor to abandon it; his task is to bring his new perspective back to be integrated. By altering its defined 'known' to accomodate what the hero has brought back from the unknown, the society more closely harmonizes with the unseen world around it, and is newly energized in the process."
(Philip Shepherd: New Self, New World)
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