…emphasized but this has been characteristic of the western thinking, the Greek to North European thinking from the beginning, when Odysseus goes, into the underworld, he recognizes those who are there. When Dante goes through hell, purgatory and Paradise, he…

…to her. And what's this pig business? You suddenly realize this is circe, this is circe's realm. It's circe who showed Odysseus the underworld and mard's letting these things play in this way, these mythological adventures. Well one of the great crises in…

…place with the sphere and experience of pairs of opposites, his middle eye, that uniting eye that transcendent eye does. And when Odysseus came to circe's isle and had that little adventure with her, she introduced him to the underworld and he went down…

…or feminine, were but shadows, but half people. But there was one substantial presence there namely tiresias, and it was from tiresias that Odysseus learned his destiny. I must say, when you look at a drawing of a yogi with the sushumna and the Ida and…

…and they think, gee it'll be fun to see these two tramps go at it so they stick them on each other but when they see Odysseus pull up his rags and they see those thighs and those arms, it just begins to be a little bit awesome for them and he…

…heard the horrible story of the minotaur. Or he may be carried or sent abroad by some benign or malignant agent, as was Odysseus driven about the Mediterranean by the winds of the angered god poseidon. The adventure may begin as a mere blunder or still…

…that is you in our view, endures that is the final term to find yourself as a self different from other selves. When Odysseus when Ulysses went to the inferno of the Greek world, he recognized the people there there were individuals there. Now if you…

…There is a great sense of coming back. One can see an image of this a very vivid one, in the odyssey of homer, where Odysseus has gone down he has gone past the realm of the lotus eaters. He's gone through the eye of the cyclops, he's gone into the…

…Seth who was chasing a boar, found his body in the papyrus swamps the boar the boar keeps turning up and here it is Odysseus, Ulysses had the scar of a boar on his thigh, and so forth and so on. So here's jermit, a heroic character but originally…

…But the journey is essentially the same: one shape shifting story of the vision quest that transforms the world, whether it is Odysseus, King Arthur or luke skywalker. The hero is the one who responds to the call to adventure. The stories often open with…