Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Word on Fire is an

apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization using media both old and

new to share the faith on every continent and to facilitate an encounter with

Christ and His Church. The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring

the transformative power of God's Word where it is most needed. Today we invite

you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the

warmth and light of Christ with each one of us.

Peace be with you. Friends, have you been following my work the last couple years?

You know that I've been interested in Jordan Peterson, the psychologist from

Toronto who's become quite a celebrity on social media. And Peterson, like Joseph

Campbell before him, is a Jungian, so a student of CG Jung, the great 20th century

psychologist, and Jung bequeathed to us this idea of the archetypes of the

collective unconscious, these sort of patterns of thought and meaning that

permeates so much of culture. And they can see him then in myth and literature

and religion, etc., etc. Campbell, by the way, had a big impact on George Lucas

who produced the Star Wars movies. And you can hear a lot of Jungian and

archetypal overtones, of course, in those stories. Well, both Campbell and

Jordan Peterson are very interested in this archetype of the hero's journey.

Now, you can see it indeed in Star Wars. I think Luke Skywalker beginning as

this sort of mild mannered figure and then going through this law and process

and becoming a hero. You can see it in almost all the superhero movies. There's

so popular now. Look at the Spider-Man story, etc. So all over the literature

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