Yancey Strickler
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
The hero's journey is you kind of get the shit kicked out of you.
You're called to return.
You deny it.
You don't want it.
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.