Perhaps you’re familiar with, even cherish, the Hero Journey, popularized in the 20th century by Joseph Campbell and others.

In this century, by Jordan Peterson and his throngs.

I’m here to rain on that parade.

Of course the surprising delight after some rains is rainbows.

The ultimate ephemeral phenomena.

We’re at the end of the road. Time to turn back.

The Hero Journey requires a path of reality polarized, in short, by tension between mythic and mutable forces.

Dispelling the dangers of these clashing forces, honoring the truth depth of the Ephemeral Journey, humanity can expand and share from a familiar yet restored path.

Such a path “home”, if you will, proceeds not merely to forward the excitability of the next progressive ethos.

Time to turn back, return not to the past — an impossibility.

Rather, to the insightful journey of repair and resonance that is at the heart of paradox — the most potent of which is real possibilities.

The Ephemeral Journey repairs and restores the well-trod, too often war-torn hero path home.

It does so by first recognizing

• clouded-by-dispassion reality myths
• forms of grace
• mythic and mutable forces that cloud clarity through dispassion (a vicious circle when not recognized!)

Figure Notes: HSR — homeostatic self-remembering OKIC — Outer Kaleidoscope, Inner Compass™ Grace Template 1 — patterning (such as “making sense”) of novelties Grace Template 2 — patterning (such as “making sense”) of redundancies