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Saturday, May 30, 2026

Hero's Journey 2. The Belly of the Whale: What Hell may Come


2. The Belly of the Whale: What Hell may Come--Cast into darkness and isolation at the very moment when victory seemed certain, the hero tries to cope with her new existence of routine loneliness as everything that once felt secure or that gave her any kind of feeling of control of accomplishment is swept away and the rest of the world offers a narrative of events that only make things exponentially worse.
 
Hero's Journey--In a world without ritual and rites of passage, without heroism, without valor and victory, what remains?  By what stars can one steer their soul ship across the whale road of life?  How can one be true to one's self, when the self has lost all meaning?  
 
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