Framing OCD as a Heroes Journey

[@IProKv]

Was reading Joseph Campbell just this morning and was set aback by Campbells breakdown of Sumerian Godess Innanas voyage into the underworld (a classic and ancient, maybe the first telling of the heroes journey). She is stripped of her heavenly things and told to not question the rites of the netherworld. Campbell says you must put aside your pride and virtue and submit to the intolerable. I assume it’s a form of acceptance of the circumstances. He doesn’t mean to say succumb to it, but rather recognize it and reconcile it lest it grow in a dark corner outside you somewhere.

[@theocdandanxetypodcast]

Yes exactly, it's a shame that the netherworld can be so unyielding like this, but when we accept the challenge and start practicing acceptance, it's amazing how the challenge can be transformed.

[@IProKv]

@@theocdandanxetypodcast yeah, it can make a fool out of anyone while they’re in it. Maybe tonight or tomorrow we will be cowering fools, but today we are on the heroes journey :)

[@IProKv]

Great vid by the way, I related reading Campbell to ocd the whole time but you wove the two so eloquently

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@@IProKv Thanks a lot. I have struggled a lot with the journey over the years, certainly did not want to accept the call haha. It sure can easily make a fool out of us again, but I've come to realise that I have some choice on that.