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The Hero's Journey: Follow Your Bliss and Doors Will Open

By Dennis Merritt Jones — 2012

In the 70s, when I first heard the phrase "follow your bliss," popularized by mythologist Joseph Campbell, it immediately hooked my attention.

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Facing the Mountain: An Inspiring Story of Japanese American Patriots in World War II

In the days and months after Pearl Harbor, the lives of Japanese Americans across the continent and Hawaii were changed forever.

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Daniel James Brown
2022
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: “She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her.

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Sonia Purnell
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The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History

Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors.

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Margalit Fox
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Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day’s Black Heroes, at Home and at War

The injustices of 1940s Jim Crow America are brought to life in this extraordinary blend of military and social history—a story that pays tribute to the valor of an all-black battalion whose crucial contributions at D-Day have gone unrecognized to this day.

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Linda Hervieux
2016
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The Hero's Journey of Self-Discovery

The cycle of the hero’s journey is a tale that is told over and over again, calling us to change by pushing us out of our comfort zone. These lessons are repeated over and over again, as one learns from their mistakes and improves upon life.

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Joseph Campbell
2020
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Archetypes and Stories Beyond The Hero's Journey

I don't think the hero's journey is a useless archetype. I think it's a powerful archetype. It's just like we've made everything about it, as if it is THE map for life.

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Charles Eisenstein
2019
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What’s Wrong with the Hero’s Journey? | Joan Scheckel Workshops | Film Independent

Film Independent visits performer, teacher, and filmmaker Joan Scheckel to learn about why the Hero’s Journey (and conflict-based storytelling) isn’t always the best—or only!—way to build a narrative.

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2016
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Benjamin Bidlack: “The Hero’s Journey in Modern Life” | Mindshare LA TEDx

This is an abbreviated version of Benjamin Bidlack’s presentation “The Hero’s Journey in Modern Life,” given at the prestigious Mindshare LA TEDx conference in Los Angeles.

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Joseph Campbell
2010
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What Is the Hero’s Journey?: Pat Soloman at TEDxRockCreekPark

What is the Hero’s Journey? And Why Should You Care?

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Joseph Campbell
2013
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Joseph Campbell and the Myth of the Hero’s Journey

In this video we explore the relationship between mythology and the unconscious, and look at the monomyth Joseph Campbell called the myth of the hero’s journey.

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Joseph Campbell
2016
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