Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this episode, I'm going to be talking about understanding the highest hero's journey. A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

A quote by Joseph Campbell.

I've spoken about the hero's journey before in my life purpose course and there I speak about it from a certain angle and the angle I come at it from there is a very practical one where I show you how to take this framework of the hero's journey and apply it to build your career, to build your business, to find your sense of purpose and the kind of impact you want to have with your life on

society how you want to contribute to the world and so we talk a lot about that

there but what I want to talk about here is I want to cover it from a different angle.

And this is the perhaps even more important angle of spirituality and non-duality.

So what is the interconnection between the hero's journey, spirituality and non-duality. That's what we're going to discuss here.

Actually, before I did actualize.org and I was still not clear about my own life purpose,

I was toying with all sorts of different

ideas of what I could do with my life, career-wise. And one of the things I was

toying with was seriously considering the idea of becoming a science fiction

writer. And to do that I started studying a lot of stuff. I

started to study narrative, how narrative works, how storytelling works, how

storytelling works, what are the common themes and tropes of storytelling? Of drama?

I started to study and read books on character development. The psychology of drama,

and also the psychology of dictators and villains. I became of about other villains that I would you know consider villains these dictators and such to see you know what is the

psychology of these people that lead them to then abuse their power and so forth

because I wanted to create a really good

villain for my story because I felt like my hero in the story could only really be

as good as the villain and I felt like most villains out there that you find in the movies and in the books

they aren't as rich and nuanced and psychologically compelling as I thought I could

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