The hero’s journey is a pattern of departure, encounter and change associated with mythologist Joseph Campbell’s comparative work on stories and mythology.
A familiar life is interrupted. Someone meets what they don’t yet know how to face. There may be help, resistance, loss and a changed relationship with the life that continues.
The pattern is an interpretive framework, not a rule that every culture’s story or every person’s life must follow.
You don’t have to be impressive to be involved.
In I AWAKE, the hero isn’t the most heroic-looking version of you. It’s you participating in what you feel, what you choose and what you do next.
The Three Hero Journeys of the I AWAKE universe are the Sensual Hero’s Journey, the Creative Hero’s Journey and the Hidden Hero’s Journey. They give different experiences a shape you can explore through books, audio and practice.
You can choose titles across all three. A story framework can help you begin without becoming a set of borders around what you’re allowed to need.
Joseph Campbell introduces the thinker. Journey explains the difference between the three named series and an individual guided seven-day experience.
The Joseph Campbell Foundation’s introduction to the hero's journey introduces Campbell’s account and its major movements. Read it for the historical framework rather than a formula your life is supposed to obey.