It’s a theme that is as old as the written story. Our main character, the hero, sets out upon a quest to find something, regain something or right a terrible wrong. His journey inevitably leads him through a treacherous path where he evades plight and peril. He must come face to face with the thing(s) he dreads the most. There is an ego-death of sorts. He loses his naivete and gains wisdom. He grows. His quest is eventually and finally ended with a return to where he began, but now a master of both the spiritual and material worlds. He is now in a state of always becoming, always growing, which usually is just the beginning of our hero’s life now having the ability to live freely.
The Hero’s Journey is really a story of resurrection. It is something to which we can probably all relate in this process of becoming. It is the template of Star Wars, Moby Dick, and Jane Eyre and is found in the works of Ernest Hemmingway, CS Lewis, JRR Tolkein, WB Yeats, JD Salinger, William Faulkner and Charles Dickens. The quest is arduous and by going on the journey with that hero, we are also going through the transformation process that by experiencing the world outside ourselves, we are discovering the world within ourselves. When the hoops have been leapt and the dragons slayed and the treasure found, we come to breathe a sigh of relief as we become masters of both the inner and outer worlds alongside our hero. It is the triumphant moment of the phoenix rising from the ashes that draws us. It is the sense of freedom that allows us to live in the now moment, unbound by our fears and empowered with our freedom to choose.
Looking at the process we are all going through during this shift, because these changes are inevitable, something has probably been torn down or torn out of our lives in the past couple years. We had to let go and in turn, that made room for something new to come into our lives. Something that was more appropriate, for we have grown more than we know. Now we get to level up and live as true creators… and we get to choose what will bring happiness and joy. We give the Universe our order form and follow up with visualizations and affirmations. By raising our vibration and keeping it there we hook it and by living as if we are already there, we attract our destiny to us like a powerful magnet. We can give thanks now to seal it. This is still being in service to God. God did not intend for us to suffer.
“and as He spoke He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story, which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.”
Author CS Lewis
The Last Battle
“Farewell to the Shadowlands”
