Recently, I've been advocating for a new spin on the Hero's Journey. I, like many others, once saw it as one individual going out into the cruel, cold world. Battling demons and killing monsters. Then coming home to be celebrated and rightfully embraced. Joseph Campbell pointed out that sometimes the hero even brought medicine for the village. I now see that with our coming to an understanding about the outer world, the real focus needs to be on the inner world so we can eventually be sane enough to travel the outer limits and/or have residents of the outer limits announce their visits to the planet.
We are supporting the idea and practice of mental health, more recently. We are bucking systems that don't work and building a platform for future ones that will. Healing is being taken on, deep emotional healing which is altering family DNA, and the realization has become that no one can do your healing for you; and claiming affiliation with a deity does not grant you sanity. These such statements mean . . . I better have a solution to toss in the ring. I do. I believe that the showing of how to stay in one's lane and be a hero falls on the shoulders of mythologist. Not the comparative mythologist. Not the armchair evaluator mythologist. Not even someone who is still putting the new style mythology creator's pedal to the metal while learning the road, like me, mythologist. I am talking about some of today's embraced writers of fine storytelling which could one day be considered true mythology. Ursula Le Guinn was a mythologist. But even she went to school under the old methodology. She was a practitioner of Joseph Campbell's external mastery hero's journey- not always but a lot of the time. The new stories need not be brooding. The collective needs new light, engaging, and encouraging stories so we can move forward. Meaning if we writers just get out the way during the first, second, even third draft, then the final product will be new and innovated. Yes, that means we won't be able to pop out books like we're machines, but we aren't. I've always believed that storytellers and myth makers have a special role in any civilization's societies. Maybe others don't, but I feel it's an honor to even been given the chance to attempt to write stories and mythologies. I'm certain with a new style we'll get new smiles. Healthy ones which change the reader/listener to their core. All the while, everyone is in their lane. That's the future I see for novelist and the one I personally strive for. Hell, I've been working on Hour of Change for 2 years now and by today's prolific standards and my previous habits that's a long time. But I keep increasing my personal standards and with that comes changes in ideas and dialogue for my manuscript. I do know that the only perfection is imperfection so 2020 will be the birthing of The Chronicles of Mow Yen: Hour of Change. We can only change the social momentum one idea, one story, one myth at a time and that means being social, engaging, with our products; and we got to start somewhere. Because, the medicine comes not from the outside but from within and novelist, again, have to help the communities which are directing people in that internal direction. Thanks for Listening! Sabrina Louise Andielle Crow Crew
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