Following Your Own Path
07/28/2015
Who’s Rules and Expectations do you Live by? The Knights of the Round Table would leave for an adventure as a group, but each individual
This Portal focuses upon the first part of life – finding your way, discovering your passions and talents, conquering trials, navigating obstacles, encountering great falls, and living a life of meaning and significance.
The Adventure Begins
The yearning one feels in the deepest part of one’s heart, a calling impossible to ignore – this is the beginning of the adventure.
The Hero’s Quest
The Great Journey to Finding the Extraordinary in Yourself.
The Dark Night of the Soul
Frequently we find that after all of the hard work we’ve expended “climbing the ladder,” we experience a collapse of purpose and meaning in life: The Dark Night of the Soul.
The Redemption
At the end of the journey, the hero returns with a boon for humanity.
The Calling: The Adventure Begins
What is the Calling?
November 23, 2013
“The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, ‘Look, you’re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, that’s not been touched. So you’re at home here? Well, there’s not enough of you there.’ And so it starts.”
– Joseph Campbell
Ironically, most great heroic journeys begin with the eventual hero refusing to heed their calling! This deep yearning, a gnawing feeling that simply won’t relent, can seem crazy, impractical, imprudent. “You’ll never make a living doing that! Be practical, don’t be childish!” people will often say, not so much at the audacity of your calling but at the deep doubt and fears that inhabit their own hearts.
Yet, as Campbell points out, the great heroic journey begins with a step into the unknown, but not alone. One is guided by one’s intuition and unquenchable passion to follow that path no matter how impractical or crazy it may seem.
Joseph Campbell, Mythologist
“The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.”
Excerpts from “The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot
07/13/2015
I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of
Transcending the Wasteland – Living Inauthentic Lives
07/28/2015
Does Your Life Feel Empty and Meaningless? Early in his illustrious career, Parzival, the greatest knight of King Arthur’s Court, encountered two fishermen in a boat
Why Take the Journey?
07/15/2015
You take the Journey because you have no other choice! As the poet Machado so eloquently states, there is no road – you create your
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