In seeking to avoid all peril, discomfort, and “all love that might ever cause us heartache, they thus find and bring to themselves only the empty assets of self-delusion and an aversion to real life.”

“They maintain that they will try anything and look anywhere for the treasure, as long as the ways and means to do so avoid all difficulty, yet also satisfy their every appetite. “There is a “great price” to be paid to live in such an attitude of wholeness, for it means one must abandon the old unconscious way of life, including, for the fool, some of one’s former self-indulgent foolishnesses.” “monomyth, a word he identifies as one coined by James Joyce, he puts forth the ancient idea-that the mysterious energy for inspirations, revelations, and actions in heroic stories worldwide is also universally found in human beings.” “When the ruler was ethical and whole, the culture was also.” “As we are told in the Vedas: “Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.” Most Important Keywords, Sentences, Quotes:

Chapter 4: Dissolutions. This chapter talks about the end of the microcosm (end of the hero’s life) and the end of the macrocosm (the end of creation).

Chapter 3: Transformations of the Hero. This chapter shows the multiple roles a hero can take in his transformation: lover, warrior, emperor & tyrant, world redeemer, and saint.

Also, this part shows the folk stories of virgin motherhood.

Chapter 2: The Virgin Birth. This chapter explains the universe as a mother (or chaos and descent) and the womb of redemption (birth as an opportunity for redemption).

Chapter 1: Emanations. Emanate means to descend from God and this chapter follows the metaphysical creation of stories and myths through the folk stories of creation.

The Keys summarize the journey by enlisting all the steps in the process. The hero who goes over this journey becomes the master of both worlds-the adventure and the ordinary world and gains the freedom to live his life.

This part covers the problem of not wanting to return back home, the magical flight and losing a part of the elixir, as well as rescue from without the journey all the way to the crossing of the threshold back. The ending explains finding the perfect form or the high-point of the journey.

Chapter 2: Initiation. This part covers the dangerous path of trials, meeting with a supernatural being (goddess), the role of woman as a temptress, and finding peace and atonement with the father.

Chapter 1: Departure. This part covers the call to adventure and some next steps in the process-refusal of the call, a mentor figure or a supernatural aid, crossing the first threshold, and finding yourself “in the belly of the whale.”.

The Hero With A Thousand Faces is divided into two major parts-The Adventure Of The Hero and The Cosmogonic Cycle.

The hero has a thousand faces