3 days ago by Lindsay

I found this amazing thing in early September this year. If you are a Tolkien fan … one might call it essential, but even if you’re not: this is a lecture about storytelling, ultimately, and a mighty-fine inspirational one at that. I hope you will make time, over the course of a week or weekend, [.. ...

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4 days ago by jerrywaxler

In the 1960s, Timothy Leary suggested "Turn on, tune in, drop out." Many young people, myself included, were seduced into thinking that these three steps would lead to wisdom. For several years I jettisoned social norms. At the end of that road, I believed in nothing. Leary's formula had emptied me ...

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6 days ago by ralfast

Or…. The Writer Faces His Muse. A little over a year ago I started on my second book which began as my first NaNo. The book in question was born out of a need to explore multiple philosophical, religious and artistic ideas though the medium of a anime/manga inspired novel. The unnamed hero would won ...

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8 days ago by kellysalasin

“Love is a hero’s journey, and the hero’s journey is a noble but difficult path… An overly casual mind might attract love easily enough, but lacks the emotional musculature necessary to maintain it. Love is a daytime as well as nighttime activity, and it demands that we become creatures of both.” En ...

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9 days ago by Owen Marcus

People often ask what is the processes of the Whole Adventure, or as Joseph Campbell called it the Hero’s Journey. Beyond being our own personal mythological journey of transformation, it is a process of unraveling, disassembling and reorganization. A man in my men’s group sent me a link to the seri ...

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10 days ago by Lindsay

A series of great videos I watched today, on the power and nature of water. They make me so grateful, and so, I’m sharing. Daniel Vitalis is my Hero. …. So is this guy: (psst, his name is David Wolfe) “Nature is not served by rigid laws, but by rhythmical, reciprocal processes. Nature uses none of t ...

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11 days ago by Jeremy

Can you believe that? Five bags and none of it everyday rubbish. All of that is shit stuff collected over the years and kept “just in case” or because it seemed “kinda cool” at the time. The stuff isn’t even worth putting up on ebay, the listing fees would be much higher than what the stuff [...]

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15 days ago by Joanna

Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin. Follow your bliss. ~~~ From The Hero’s Journey (On Living in the World) by Joseph Campbell, shared by Kit Cooper at the Quality ...

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18 days ago by Rebecca LuElla Miller

Reminder: Today is the last day to vote in the Clive Staples Award – Readers Choice for the best Christian speculative novel published in 2008 by a royalty-paying publisher. Also, you have until December 2 to vote for the November CSFF Top Tour Blogger. - – - I find this “what constitutes derivative ...

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19 days ago by Lindsay

I am reposting my Advent Meditations from Last Season. I am planning on something new each midweek, to be working towards the next curve of the spiral, enjoy! … Today is the first day of Advent, traditionally: this is the period of waiting. We are meant to spend the next 4 weeks preparing for the Bi ...

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