The Hero Archetype Is the Central Human Story

The hero archetype is the central human story. It's an imagistic representation of the process by which we make sense out of the world. By definition, that's the pattern we use to expand our competence in the world. How could it be anything other than redemptive? Every time you learn something, especially painfully, which really means you learned it, there's a bunch of things that you already knew that you had to let go of because they're wrong. There's no learning without sacrifice. And so what the child is doing is continually moving out, extending its explored territory into the unknown, just like the star treck voyagers....