Hero's Path - the inner journey
"In Ho'ala Huna, God is a word used to point to the universal and interconnected Reality that comprises ALL THAT IS." -- Lono Ho'ala Kahuna Kupua A'o
In book and movie reviews, the plot and characters get most of the attention. While it's difficult to discuss such hero's journey films as The Matrix and Star Wars without mentioning non-ordinary reality and "the force," the outer story gets the headlines and the buzz. However, in a story about a hero on the path, that outer journey is the tip of the iceberg.
Like an iceberg, the inner journey lies beneath the surface of a very deep ocean often described as the unconscious by Jungian analysts and the 90% of creation that's inaccessible to the five senses by Kabbalists..
Likewise, when I talk about my hero's journey novels The Sun Singer and Garden of Heaven: an Odyssey, I usually mention that in one, a young man named Robert Adams goes on a mission into a dangerous alternate universe, and in the other a middle-aged man named David Ward is trying to put his shattered life back together while searching for the person who's trying to ruin him.
Such descriptions are often called "elevator pitches." They are what I might say if somebody (in or out of an elevator) suddenly asked me what my novels are about. In a brief conversation, I seldom mention the inner journey at all. In part, I don't know how to mention it quickly and/or without setting down a foundation first. I'm also worried that people may step out of the elevator thinking that I write "religious books" as mainstream society views the subject.
The Sun Singer and Garden of Heaven have a very strong spiritual focus yet, in many ways, this focus remains all but hidden until the reader discovers it and experiences it. Perhaps that's as it should be. Perhaps that's the nature of fiction, the inner journey, the true meaning of the hero's path, and personal transformation.
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You may also like a new page added to my website: Novels of Personal Transformation.
--Malcolm
In book and movie reviews, the plot and characters get most of the attention. While it's difficult to discuss such hero's journey films as The Matrix and Star Wars without mentioning non-ordinary reality and "the force," the outer story gets the headlines and the buzz. However, in a story about a hero on the path, that outer journey is the tip of the iceberg.Like an iceberg, the inner journey lies beneath the surface of a very deep ocean often described as the unconscious by Jungian analysts and the 90% of creation that's inaccessible to the five senses by Kabbalists..
Likewise, when I talk about my hero's journey novels The Sun Singer and Garden of Heaven: an Odyssey, I usually mention that in one, a young man named Robert Adams goes on a mission into a dangerous alternate universe, and in the other a middle-aged man named David Ward is trying to put his shattered life back together while searching for the person who's trying to ruin him.
Such descriptions are often called "elevator pitches." They are what I might say if somebody (in or out of an elevator) suddenly asked me what my novels are about. In a brief conversation, I seldom mention the inner journey at all. In part, I don't know how to mention it quickly and/or without setting down a foundation first. I'm also worried that people may step out of the elevator thinking that I write "religious books" as mainstream society views the subject.
The Sun Singer and Garden of Heaven have a very strong spiritual focus yet, in many ways, this focus remains all but hidden until the reader discovers it and experiences it. Perhaps that's as it should be. Perhaps that's the nature of fiction, the inner journey, the true meaning of the hero's path, and personal transformation.
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You may also like a new page added to my website: Novels of Personal Transformation.
--Malcolm
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