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.”

The Hero’s Journey

The first part of life is frequently centered around finding your way – learning how to navigate the obstacles of life, discovering what your passion

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The Three Metamorphoses

In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche, in discussing the Three Metamorphoses of the human spirit, points out that we are in a constant state of

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The Portals

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