Yancey Strickler
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You have to go deeper.
You go deeper.
And then you return.
And the pivotal moment is that you find transcendence.
And across every society myth, it has a similar sort of shape to the story.
But the trick to transcendence, transcendence is a door.
And the door of transcendence is all around us.
There's like 12 right here between us right now.
The doors of transcendence are everywhere.
But there's a trick to doors of transcendence.
Doors of transcendence are locked in very specific ways.
And he writes that the doors of transcendence are always locked by opposites.
Light and dark.
Life and death.
Or as I saw when I read it, artist corporation.
Exact opposites.
But opposites lead you to think that there is no space between them.
But in the hero's journey, because you've gotten the shit kicked out of you and because you'd like to see it differently now, you perceive the crack.
And the final stage of the hero's journey is to identify that.
And by identifying the doors and opening them and returning and telling people, you open the doors for everybody.