The Return of Selkie Boy
In the Hero/Heroine’s Journey the Return is a time of integration on many levels. Jon Wiley offers a new perspective as his Return proves [...]
At Home with Sumerian Threshold Goddesses
Why care about the first story ever told? The culture that told it was undergoing immense change, like ours. The threshold goddesses are day/air [...]
Home (Again)
This Journey is complete when the Journeymaker reaches Home. But… where is that home? Is there a welcome? And what’s happening about the Gift [...]
The Return
Once past the Gate Out, the Return requires looking both backwards and forwards. Returning requires making both reparations and openings. What are they? How [...]
Nigredo: Cocoon of Transformation
Here we are at the transformation point, the Nigredo, 180º from Home in the circuit, mid-way through the Ritual Journey of the Road of Trials. [...]
Gate In and Gate Keepers = Dangers
You listened to the Call and are on the road to the Gate In to your next transformation. The first Gate In is conception, [...]
Exploring the Call
You are a unique being; no one else is the same person. You are a key made to unlock the doors of your life. [...]
Two Seekers, and “All Stories are One” Verified
— Chuck and Lola Wilcox Two experts in Story separately come up with the same idea: all stories are One [...]
Where Is Home For You?
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. - The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, line 1, page 1. The prologue to [...]
The Transformation Journey
Joseph Campbell, a leading figure in comparative mythology and religion, gives us the journey every person takes as found in cultural mythologies worldwide. This [...]
