Special Episode: Star Wars, The Hero's Journey, and Your Call to a Better Life
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Ted Ryce
4.8 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2015
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this special episode of Legendary Life, we celebrate the new Star Wars movie the Force Awakens by taking a deeper look into Star Wars and the lessons we can learn from these powerful movies to improve our own lives. When we talk about Star Wars, we are really talking about The Hero's Journey--the themes that are common to all human cultures and myths. And to talk about that, we need to talk about the famous mythologist Joseph Campbell. You'll hear clips of Joseph Campbell and scenes from Star Wars to illustrate the trials, tribulations and lessons from The Hero's Journey and how they are relevant to us. For the story of every human life is the story of heroes. In a way, we are all heroes. But not all of of heed the call to adventure. Learn about the power of mindset, mentors and training and how being a hero means dedicating yourself to something bigger than your immediate experience of life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a special episode of the Legendary Light Podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Today we're going to be talking about Star Wars, the Hero's Journey, and your journey. |
| 0:11.0 | And we're going to talk about some of the lessons in Star Wars and what we can learn |
| 0:17.5 | from some of the themes and messages in this great movie that you can apply to your life. |
| 0:26.3 | And I'm really excited about this |
| 0:28.5 | because Star Wars is something that has been in my life for a very long time. In fact, I was just two years old when I was on my dad's shoulders, |
| 0:38.7 | waiting in a line of people for, it seemed like an eternity to get into this movie |
| 0:45.1 | Empire Strikes Back and I didn't even know what to expect I was so young but once we sat down, once we watched the entire movie, I was |
| 0:56.9 | spellbound. I was so taken back by the story, the struggles, the |
| 1:02.0 | characters, what they were going through and how they overcame things |
| 1:06.2 | and that even at my young age there was something that resonated deeply even though I had basically no experience in the world at two years old. |
| 1:16.7 | And there's a reason for that and I'm sure you felt the same thing. |
| 1:21.0 | Maybe it's not for Star Wars, maybe it's for another movie, maybe it's for |
| 1:25.7 | Braveheart or Gladiator, but what's behind all these movies is the Hero's Journey, something I've talked about before and something that I want to dive into deeper today. |
| 1:38.0 | And if we're talking about the hero's journey, we must talk about Joseph Campbell the most famous mythologist of our time. |
| 1:48.0 | He wrote a very well-known book called The Hero of a Thousand Faces. |
| 1:53.2 | And when Joseph was asked about Star Wars and the Hero's Journey, this is what he had to say. |
| 1:59.6 | Do you, when you look at something like Star Wars recognize some of the themes of the hero throughout mythology? |
| 2:08.0 | Well, I think that George Lucas was using standard mythological figures. |
| 2:15.0 | Why should we care about this? |
| 2:18.0 | What do they have to do with my life? |
| 2:20.0 | These bits of information from ancient times which have to do with the themes that have |
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