The Call to Adventure
“the awakening of the self”
One form of life cannot simply
be abandoned unless it is exchanged for another.
“This first stage of the mythological journey – which we have
designated the “call to adventure” – signifies
that destiny has summoned the hero and transferred his spiritual
center of
gravity from within the pale of his society to a zone unknown.
“… that
unconscious deep (“so deep that the bottom
cannot be seen”) wherein are hoarded all of the rejected, unadmitted,
unrecognized, unknown, or undeveloped factors, laws, and elements of existence.”
“The
Four Signs,” which is the most
celebrated example of the call to adventure in the literature of the world …pg 46