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Hero's Journey 1 Joseph Campbell
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Join us for part one of the Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell. We'll find out who he is, what he's responsible for, and if he has anything to do with...

Hero's Journey 2 The Three Stages
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Join us for part two of the Hero's Journey: The Three Stages. It'll be way less fun than watching the Three Stooges. 

Hero's Journey 3 Archetypes
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Join us for part three of the Hero's Journey: Archetypes. Then, feel free to send us a letter about your favorite archetype, which we may or may no...

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Join us for part nine of the Hero's Journey: Supernatural Help. And for the last time, Sam and Dean Winchester have nothing to do with this video. Please stop asking. 

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Thank you We sneak in the hero's journey Supernatural help

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i'll ashman What kind of relationship do supernatural forces usually

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have with the hero A lot of times the hero's

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journey kind of is built around the idea that supernatural

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forces come to the heroes aid because the hero has

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some kind of intrinsic qualities airworthiness that make them sort

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of deserve help of the universe right So in this

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one story it's a heroine she needs some ants and

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mice And you know most people would think that they're

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disgusting or despicable What she's like friendly and she befriends

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them and then later she gets trapped by some kind

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of evil queen and the queen wants her to like

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sort lentils from peas overnight and it's like this enormous

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pile of lentils and peas and it's a lot of

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work But then she calls on aunts of the mice

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and they split it all up for her But just

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this idea that this is the sort of supernatural forces

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of the universe will come to aid the hero because

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they have this intrinsic goodness that makes supernatural creatures want

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to help them What kind of relationship do supernatural forces 00:01:25.074 --> [endTime] usually have with the hero

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