S10 E5-8 (Building Success Habits) Stages of the Hero’s Journey with Londina Cruz & Donna Kunde

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Stages of the Hero’s Journey
The hero’s journey is a journey of consciousness and includes three major stages: Preparation, the Journey and the Return. During the Preparation stage we are challenged to prove our competence, our courage, our humanity and our fidelity to high ideals. Once on the Journey we leave the safety of our tribe or family and start on a quest where we encounter death, suffering and love. The most important treasure on the journey is our own transformation. On the Return we become Rulers of our “kingdom” which we then transform because we are changed. This process continues or we can become tyrants who cling to old truths.    

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E5 Preparation For Your Hero’s Journey |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz 

1. “If you’re going to have a story, have a big story.”– Joseph Campbell
   
2. The first four Archetypes ( Innocent, Orphan, Warrior and Caregiver) help us prepare for the journey.
   
3. We start the journey as the Innocent and learn optimism and trust. 
   
4. At some point there is a “fall” and we become Orphans who feel disappointed, abandoned and betrayed by life (especially the people who were supposed to care for us) but teach us to care for ourselves and to stop relying on other people. Ironically, the orphan feels so powerless and helpless that its best strategy for survival is to find others to provide mutual support.  
   
5. The Warrior helps us learn to set goals and develop strategies to achieve them like courage and discipline. 
   
6. Eventually the Caregiver becomes active we learn to take care of others and eventually how to take care of ourselves as well. 
   
7. The four attributes of these Archetypes: Basic optimism, the capacity to band together for support, the courage to fight for yourself and others and compassion to care for yourself and others provide the basic skills for living in society. But if this is all we can do we will feel unsatisfied with our lives, even though we have learned what is necessary to be both moral and successful in the world. 
   

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E6 The “Journey” Stage of Hero’s Journey |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz 

1. “Every time you are willing to say “Yes” to everything on your path, you express the hero inside of you.” --Maria Nemeth
   
2. At some point we begin to want more and yearn for something beyond ourselves. This activates the Seeker who begins the search for meaning and purpose so we answer the call to begin the journey. 
   
3. Once we embark on the journey, we encounter some sort of suffering. The Destroyer takes away things that seemed essential to our lives. 
   
4. This is an initiation through suffering but it also activates the Lover as we find ourselves in love with people, causes, places and work. This love is so strong it requires commitment and we are no longer free. 
   
5. The treasure that emerges out of this encounter with the Destroyer or death and Love is the birth of our true self. 
   
6. The Creator helps us begin to express this self in the world and prepares us to return back to our starting place to share our transformation. 
   
7. These four abilities, to strive, to let go, to love and to create, teach us the basic process of dying to the old self and giving birth to the new. The process prepares us to return to the “kingdom” and change our lives. 
   

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E7 The “Return” Stage of Your Hero’s Journey |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz 

1. “Sometimes a journey is not about the traveler. It is not about a destination. It is about the bringing together of worlds. It is about lighting a path.” --Thomas Lloyd Qualls
2. When we return, we realize we are now the Rulers of our “kingdoms.” At first we might be disappointed in the state of things. Others have not changed and we see the difference. But as we act on our new wisdom and begin sharing it with others we begin to see their lives change as well. 
3. As the Magician is activated in our lives we get really good at healing and transforming ourselves and others and everyone benefits from this continual renewal. 
4. But we will never be truly satisfied, completely fulfilled or happy until we face our own perceptions. The Sage helps us know what truth really is. As we learn to accept our perceptions and paradigms and let go of illusions and petty desires we are able to reach a state of nonattachment and experience true freedom. 
5. Only when we have reached true freedom can the Fool teach us how to live joyously in the moment without worrying about tomorrow. 
6. The final set of attainments include taking responsibility for our lives, transforming and healing ourselves and others, nonattachment and a commitment to truth and the capacity for joy and spontaneity. This is our reward for the journey. 

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E8 The Nature of the Journey |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz

1. “When the student is ready the teacher will appear”–Tao Te Ching
   
2. When we put it all together it might seem like the stages flow easily from one to the next with each Archetype showing up in perfect order. Thinking of the hero moving through the three stages of preparation, journey and return while being aided by twelve in order is useful as a teaching tool, the reality in most cases is that growth really doesn’t happen in such a defined, linear way. Our guides (each Archetype) come to us when they (and at some level) when we choose. 
   
3. The pattern of the journey ends up being more like a spiral instead of a linear map. The final stage of the journey, characterized by the Archetype of the Fool ends up connecting with the first Archetype, the Innocent, but at a higher level than before. This time the Innocent is wiser about life.
   
4. On the spiraling hero’s journey, we may encounter each Archetype many times, and in the process gain new gifts at a higher or deeper level of development. 
   
5. Each encounter creates a new neural pathway in the brain and this allows us to transform while making the journey meaningful. When we experience reality, we create a net to hold that reality and can take the experience and make meaning of it. The Archetypes we have not yet encountered are like holes in a net. The experiences that we have little or no way of understanding simply pass through the holes. 
   

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