The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By
Language: English
Pages: 368
ISBN: 0062515551
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The Classic Guide, Updated for Our Contemporary World
A modern classic of Jungian psychology, The Hero Within has helped hundreds of thousands of people enrich their lives by revealing how to tap the power of the archetypes that exist within. Drawing from literature, anthropology, and psychology, author Carol S. Pearson clearly defines six heroic archetypes—the Innocent, the Orphan, the Wanderer, the Warrior, the Altruist, and the Magician—and shows how we can use these powerful guides to discover our own hidden gifts, solve difficult problems, and transform our lives with rich sources of inner strength.
This book will speak deeply to the evolving hero in all of us and reverberate through every part of our lives. With poignant wisdom and prolific examples, it gives us enduring tools to help us develop our own innate heroic gifts—the Orphan's resilience, the Wanderer's independence, the Warrior's courage, the Altruist's compassion, the Innocent's faith, and the Magician's abiding power.
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political clout. Of course, people cannot rise to the occasion to live into this power unless they also claim their personal power. That’s why it would be ideal if everyone could have access in some fashion to the hero’s journey. Democracy is at risk when people take it for granted and fail to exercise the authority of citizenship. For democracy not only to survive but to serve all of us, we need to get involved in the political process, to support and vote for the people and policies that
the habit every day of letting yourself feel your feelings. When you feel lonely, mistreated, or bad in any way, reach out and share with others what you are feeling. You may not think you know how to do this, but start with the basics: “mad,” “sad,” “glad,” “scared,” and “love.” Your repertoire of feelings will develop as you practice this step. Let yourself be vulnerable. Ask others for their support and support them in kind. Step Two: Develop an awareness of your body so that you release
think they want: to be what we think they want us to be. Another is to treat people as objects for the gratification of our own desires. This requires that we allow ourselves no real awareness of their separate human identity. Actually, anytime someone acts in one-up/one-down roles with another person, that will be a solitary interaction. Still another way to be alone, as we have seen with traditional sex roles, is always to act a part—the perfect woman or man, mother or father, boss or
not we claim the heroic potential within us. Moreover, if we avoid our journeys, we also may feel bored and empty. It is not so much that we take our journeys in order to attain happiness. Rather, when we follow our real bliss, our journeys are our treasures. Mystic Annie Dillard in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek surmises that life “is often cruel, but always beautiful—the least we can do is try to be there,” to be fully in life. She imagines that “the dying pray at the last not ‘please,’ but ‘thank
level. In classical Jungian analysis, you find meaning in life by attending carefully to your dreams and the archetypes that populate them. This practice is an important aspect of inner resource development and is highly recommended to readers of this book.1 The goal is individuation, which means simply that you find out who you are at a very fundamental level. As we become aware of archetypes—in Jungian analysis or by applying the concepts in this book to our lives—our relationship to them
