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myth : hero
A hero is defined as one who exhibits
extraordinary courage,
fortitude
or greatness of soul.
"I have long felt that the term "hero" has become
victim of the tendency by politicians to
create jingoistic phrases that play well with
the public. I was a reserve police officer for 20 years and never felt that
just showing up for a work shift was a heroic act." - Cliff Weiss
"The misuse, overuse and cynical
manipulation of the word "hero" exemplifies
the erosion of language that dumbs a media-saturated, news-as-entertainment-fed public even
further down the road of "everyone's a winner." It is sad to consider how the
acceptance of an inappropriate term can be so readily embraced by a populace
that is spoon-fed a feel-good-at-any-price dose of daily cant." - Lawrence J.
Pippick
The hero is the one
who comes to participate in life
courageously and decently in a
natural and honorable way.
The
hero's sphere of action is in the field of
time,
here and now in a sharply defined
dual reality broken into pairs of opposites - good and evil.
The
idea of good and evil in
mythology, of life as a
conflict between the
forces of
darkness and the
forces of light,
is a
Zoroastrian idea, which has come over into
Judaism and Christianity.
In Eastern
traditions, good and
evil are relative to the position in which you are
standing.
Whenever one moves out of the
transcendent,
one comes into a field of
opposites.
One has
eaten of the tree of
knowledge, not only of
good and evil,
but of male and
female, of right
and wrong, and of
light and
dark.
No longer is one
innocent.
Everything in the field of time is dual: past and
future, dead and alive, being and
nonbeing.
The ultimate pair in the
imagination are
male and
female, the
male being
aggressive,
and the
female being receptive, the
male being the
warrior, the
female the dreamer.
We have the realm of
love and the realm of
war, Eros and
Thanatos.
-adapted
from the Power of
Myth, interview of Joseph Campbell,
mythologist, by Bill Moyers, journalist.
"I believe that for a lot of these folks, the urge
to help is solely an ego driven need to be
hero worshiped. The true hero works
without fanfare. The true hero does not
parade 364 days of the year in T-shirts
indicating their exalted status as firefighters or members of a search and
rescue team. Hero worship runs rampant in this country. These folks deserve our
thanks for doing what they do, but let's stop fooling ourselves about the
reasons why many of them do it." - Billy Mange
Also see
Joseph Campbell on:
in the
beginning
image
myth
life
consciousness
archetype
metaphor
mystery
the
serpent
religion
dreamtime
God
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