The Hero with a Thousand Faces

So it's www.robertwsullivan4.com is where you can find me.

I'm the author of five books.

They are all available on all the main online retailers, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million.

You can get the print copy or the e-book.

Yeah, so I wrote a book on sort of Masonic philosophy and history and symbolism, really about a historical anomaly.

That was my first book, The Royal Arch of Enoch.

I have three books out on movie symbolism.

I'm working on a fourth and fifth right now.

Lucas was inspired by an American mythologist and symbolist known as Joseph Campbell was his name.

And Campbell wrote this, I guess his magnum opus is this book called The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

And this details this epic grand journey, which he called the monomyth.

And what it was was, and this ties into also the world of Carl Jung, the idea of the archetypes and these archetypical adventures.

I found him to be a very interesting human being.

Now, his classic work, which we all should read, is called The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

But he wrote that in 1949 and found the same pattern in hero stories from every culture in history.

The hero... is the one who leaves the safety of the familiar, enters the unknown, suffers setbacks, and return changed.

But it's always good when you have harmony, because then you don't think about time.

You don't think about anything but how harmonizing together with good people, we're not going to judge you for what your limitations are, but help you understand when people work together, everything can change for the better.

So in the mythology, the hero with a thousand faces, he saw this.

He saw that your setback by taking a chance is also the opportunity to realize what you don't want to keep doing.

Oh, they're right.

The book's called The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell.

Mm-hmm.

And so back in the 1940s, what Joseph Campbell did is he studied mythologies from all over the world, all different cultures, ancient, modern, and every continent in the world.

It's a very similar thing that Maynard was going through with his mythology of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell.

Hero with a Thousand Faces was like life-changing for me when I was 20 years old.

I actually never read Hero of a Thousand Faces.

Oh, yeah? But I know that.

And years ago, I spoke to Jim O'Connell.

I spoke to Jim O'Connell, the forensic engineer who, by the way, he passed away a few years ago, but he is remembered in my book in a number of different chapters simply because he spent a great deal of time in Mexico studying ruins and looking at the brilliance of the Maya architectural engineering of pyramids and temples and buildings and causeways and just numerous items.

But one of the things he told me that always was kind of a challenge for me was that the codices were translated from technical manuals.

And at first, I didn't understand what that was until years later when I had been to a number of these ruins and seen very sophisticated buildings and their operations.

But what Jim discovered is that these codices were technical manuals for skywatching, for other operations of a city.

And when he said that, I was like, well, what does that mean, technical manuals? Well, we don't know.

But in my recent research of this book, The Maya Controversy, they discovered in written eyewitness accounts that Delanda, the priest who corralled and took all these books, that it wasn't a couple of books.

It was 26 codices, 26.

So Papa Bear gets to step out and get a little Davey time for a few hours while that's going on, which is awesome.

So I sit down and I get to make some phone calls and read a book and do some writing and really enjoy that time.

So anyway, I'm feeling great, coming off the fast.

And then I come home and the ladies are still there and sit down and my wife had made an apple crumble cake.

I don't need it.

Uh, What I was going to say, back to the Blue Zones.

Did you hear the Blue Zones, it was like fraudulent, the actual Netflix part of it, or I don't know, Netflix, like the guy who goes out and does the Blue Zone discoveries? He was the author of the book, right? I thought he was a Minnesota guy.

Is he a Minnesota guy? I think so.

And I think we have to grow and find something deeper.

Joseph Campbell in his book, A Hero with a Thousand Faces, said that, you know, in Greek storytelling, your fate was already decided.

You were going to change that.

But a positive story was one in which the character changed internally, even if you went to the gallows.