1. The Hero’s Journey The Separation Initiation and Transformation The Return

4. The Threshold When called to adventure, we must cross the Threshold. The Threshold is the “jumping off point” The gateway to the unknown

6. Helpers At the threshold, we will encounter helpers. Often they bring a talisman to help us through the ordeal. The most important of these helpers is the mentor . Helpers and guides appear throughout the journey

9. Tempters Tempters try to pull us away from our path. They may pretend to be a friend or helper. They use fear, doubt or distraction.

10. The Abyss The Abyss represents the greatest challenge in the journey. In the Abyss the hero faces his greatest fear, and must face it alone.

11. The Abyss cont. Here the hero must “slay the dragon,” which often takes the shape of something he dreads, or has repressed, or needs to resolve.

12. Transformation As the hero conquers the Abyss, his transformation is complete. Like the Phoenix, a part of the hero must die so that a new part can be reborn. Fear must die to make way for courage, Ignorance for enlightenment, dependency for independence

13. The Revelation Part of the Transformation is a Revelation, a sudden, dramatic change in the way the hero thinks or views life. This change makes him truly a different person.

14. The Atonement After the Transformation the hero achieves Atonement, that is he is “at one” with his new self. The hero has incorporated the changes caused by the Journey and is “reborn” The “Om” the Hindu symbol of “oneness”

18. Finally… The Return To a changed, but normal life.