INSIDE HERO'S JOURNEY Ep 16 Freedom to Live - The Hero with a Thousand Faces explained

[@bayamelouani1743]

I'm writing a dissertation and i included some of what u said in ur videos so how should i refer to you ? I mean what is your name or idk should i write story maniac?

[@StoryManiac]

Wow Im honored to even need to be referenced in your dissertation. Im not sure how to reference a video but you can attribute it to the channel. But if you need my name then find me on instagram (@storymaniacproductions) and DM there. I dont want to give out too much personal info in youtube comments.

[@Badshah-l7l]

I'm stuck Hero journey ​@@StoryManiac

[@blaketheshepherd]

Do you still respond to comments on here?

[@StoryManiac]

Sometimes

[@blaketheshepherd]

@@StoryManiac Thanks for responding! Can you tell me if I am understanding this quote correctly? It sounds like the hero comes to peace with life being a zero-sum game: "The battlefield is symbolic of the field of life, where every creature lives on the death of another. A realization of the inevitable guilt of life may so sicken the heart that, like Hamlet or like Arjuna, one may refuse to go on with it. One the other hand, like most of the rest of us, one may invent a false, finally unjustified, image of oneself as an exceptional phenomenon in the world, not guilty as other are, but justified in one’s inevitable sinning because one represents the good. Such self-righteousness leads to a misunderstanding, not only of oneself but of the nature of both man and the cosmos. The goal of the myth is to dispel the need for such life ignorance by effecting a reconciliation of the individual consciousness with the universal will. And this is effected through a realization of the true relationship of the passing phenomena of time to the imperishable life that lives and dies in all.”

[@StoryManiac]

@@blaketheshepherdI think hes saying that because life is a zero sum game that we delude ourselves into thinking that our choices are good ones and the people who lose out because of our choices are therefore bad. Its a fallacy that myths dispel by showing us that our individual needs are connected to things that are universal in all of us. So its not necessarily becoming okay with life being zero sum game but becoming more okay with our choices/ ourselves.

[@StoryManiac]

@@blaketheshepherd Thats how I see it anyways

[@blaketheshepherd]

@@StoryManiac Becoming ok with getting what you need to have a good life, even if it means someone else misses out because they would do the same due to us all having the same internal drives