Joseph Campbell recognised that a life well lived is filled with many heroes journeys. These are journeys into the world of symbols and an exploration of how you fit into the collective unconscious. Going into a mind that is bigger than what we can measure means having the courage to seek and understand creations symbols and how we fit into them. This is a chance to recognise the importance of a means of communication of the spirit, more deep than the symbols of language or black and white text. This is the language that the Son of man talked in when He visited, not in five step processes but in parables and poetry.


It begins with the Ordinary World: Heroes Spiritual Journey Departure: (Level 1 Spiritual-Self) 

The Heroes Spiritual Journey Departure starts in the ordinary world. Here the person doesn't know their personal potential or calling. Where you are here , right now where you are sitting is what you will have to give up. Your task is to go into that world of symbols, see your purpose and come back and share it with us all after the Heroes Spiritual Journey Departure phase.

 
A Call to Adventure: Heroes Spiritual Journey Departure: (Level 1 Spiritual-Self)

The call to adventure in the Heroes Spiritual Journey Departure phase is the point in a person's life when she or she is first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not. (Campbell)

Sometimes the hero or heroine is simply called to leave the religious slavery of a Godless spirituality and to seek freedom in a lived spiritual adventure. The call to freedom from guilt and sin is offered in return for devotion to a fully lived life the details of which have already been knitted into the adventurers heart: waiting to become shared with the world.

Ask your self what is it that you are not happy about in your world. That is where your destiny awaits you. It's a strange thing that often the things the purposes we are given to change by the dream giver creator are those things that cause us angst or unease. What are you uneasy about in this world. Guys, it could be a simple as that fish that got away. What oppression are you trying to escape?

Remember Moses and his oppressors? He  did not know what he was in for when he was living as an empty man, but eventually he decided to know the fear and do it anyway. His heroes journey led an oppressed nation to victory. Simply because he heeded the call. He took back what rightfully belonged to his people; Their Freedom. The story of Ruth is another example of honouring a call.


Perhaps a Refusal of the Call: Heroes Spiritual Journey Departure (Level 2 Spiritual-Self)

Often in the Heroes Spiritual Journey Departure phase a call is given, and the future hero refuses to heed it. This may be from a sense of duty or obligation, fear, insecurity, a sense of inadequacy, or any of a range of reasons that work to hold the person in his or her current circumstances.

The Heroine or Hero may remain anchored to past ways and associations. A false humility and pride may come over the Hero. One that uses old dysfunctional bonds and connections as an excuse not to answer and peruse the spiritual adventure offered beyond the Heroes Spiritual Journey Departure phase.

This is like the parable of the seeds. The seed lands on the ground but it doesn't take or like the ground that receives the seed and it takes but but is later choked by weeds. The lives of those who take the call and those who don't commit to the call are insanely different. This may depend on where your anchor is, do you fear what may happen to you in the spiritual realm, or what could happen to  you in the earthly realm. Forfeit the sweet musical call of creation and you may end up living a shallow materialistic dreams in your heart, but you will never know the true Joy of The fulfillment.

Meeting Wise Mentor: Heroes Spiritual Journey Departure:(Level 2 Spiritual-Self)
 
Once the hero has committed to the quest, consciously or unconsciously, his or her guide and magical helper appears, or becomes known.(Campbell)

Creation never meant you to do life alone, spiritual helpers may appear to help you on your Heroes Spiritual Journey Departure. Seek guidance from those wise people you meet along the way, those who let you know what the challenges are and how to transcend them. Those words of wisdom that spring out at you into your into you consciousness and calling you onwards: ever onwards.

The First Threshold: Heroes Spiritual Journey Departure: (Level 3 Spiritual-Self)

After confronting their own personnel issues in the Heroes Spiritual Journey Departure, the hero enters into the challenging eternal spirit realm of promises, where there is not any wanting for the past or turning back. The heroine here becomes aware of the choice confronting them and chooses immersion in the journey and, arises having concurred those old grave, grave attachments that once held them back.

The Heroes Spiritual Journey Departure is the point where the person actually crosses into the field of adventure, leaving the known limits of his or her world and venturing into an unknown and dangerous realm where the rules and limits are not known. (Campbell)

The Heroes Spiritual Journey Departure is where you are brave enough to cross over into full commitment to the world of spirit. It's a willingness to accept the spiritual reality that all things came from he creator who is pure spirit, light, love....... and anchor yourself to that truth. In the pure forms boundaries that divide us dissolve and we are able to enjoy true communion with creation and each other. In creation there is not any fear over evil, because when you cross over threshold into the limitless eternal spirit creation there fear has been triumphed over.

The enemy does not have any power over the eternal spirit once you step over the threshold in the Heroes Spiritual Journey Departure phase. In your previous small world there were good and evil, black and white, happy and sad, but over the threshold a new world view prevails that leaves these old judgments behind. Again and again our hard wired consciousness will interrupt, but once we anchor ourselves to this eternal perspective. Remember, Jesus while anchored from this eternal perspective managed to rise again to overcome the duality of life, and death itself. Now is your opportunity to defeat death, the enemy, to slay the dragon, get your self together cross that dessert, go through that cave, go cleanse ourself through that fire and return anew.

See a series of Movie Highlights that track Joseph Campbells Ideas of the Heroes Journey in Through Film. From Heroes Spiritual Journey Departure to Return.




Follow the heroes spiritual journey

Heroes Spiritual Journey departure: Initiation Interactive Guide. Note the bottom three icons represent the heroes spiritual journey.

Objectives of the Heroes Spiritual Adventure Departure Phase