who is our “Hero”?

william smith
2 min readJul 10, 2020

Only birth can conquer death — the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new…there must be — if we are to experience long survival — a continuous “recurrence of birth to nullify the unremitting recurrences of death.” — Joseph Campbell

In The Hero With a Thousand Faces Dr. Campbell writes “The stages of a human development are the same today as they were in the ancient times”. they include;

  • Childhood ( Passage) — a child brought up in a world of discipline, of obedience, and of his dependency on others, has to be transcended. In the case of the hero he…

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