The Inner Childe

From The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on his Life and Work.

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People don’t want the truth.

They want their beliefs reinforced. When they’re not, they go into fight or flight. Their body actually feels danger. Without the awareness of the ego, hearing the truth will cause someone to totally shut down. To take things personal. And to not even allow an outside perspective.

The wisest people have learned to accept that uncomfortable feeling. To know it’s just the ego and body feeling unsafe. To listen and to absorb information that clashes with their pre-conceived beliefs. It’s this process that allows us to actually evolve as human beings. It’s this process that allows them to understand reality is a concept we co-create.

Many people aren’t in touch with reality. You’ve met them. They don’t see themselves. They can’t see who someone else actually is. They’ve created an entirely different narrative to a situation. If you bring up something outside of that perspective, you’re met with defensiveness or denial. Two of the most common coping mechanisms know to human beings.

The truth is never final. It changes as we do. It’s a quest. A journey to challenging yourself. To exposing yourself to new things, perspectives, and people. The reason we say “the truth will set you free” is because it will. And the reason so few are free is because it’s deeply uncomfortable to get to the other side of denial that we call truth

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