I - Departure
1 - The Call To Adventure
"...a preliminary manifestation of the powers that are breaking into play...can be termed the 'herald'; the crisis...the 'call to adventure.' The herald's summons may be to live...or, at a later moment of the biography, to die. It may sound the call to some high historical undertaking. Or it may mark the dawn of religious illumination. As apprehended by the mystic, it marks what has been termed 'the awakening of the self"...[or] no more than the coming of adolescence. But whether small or great, and no matter what the stage or grade of life, the call rings up the curtain, always, on a mystery of transfiguration - a rite, or a moment, of spiritual passage, which, when complete, amounts to a dying and a birth. The familiar life horizon has been outgrown; the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand."
Joseph Campbell
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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