Hero’s Journey 2 – Master Key Experience Week Eighteen

In the Master Key Experience, the focus was on the Hero’s Journey.   The Hero’s Journey was coined by academic Joseph Campbell in 1949. It refers to a Hero who ventures out to get what the Hero needs, and faces a crisis, wins a victory, and then comes home changed or transformed.

The Master Key Experience is a process of personal transformation which is like the Hero’s Journey. We are born into a set of rules, beliefs, and programming and have developed our own programming, blueprints and our defense systems as we grew, and now through The Master Key Experience we are choosing to break free from these conventions (transcend them) to discover our authentic selves and our bliss. In this process, we are returning to our soul.

There are 12 stages to the Hero’s Journey, and I am going to attempt to connect them with the Master Key Experience. This week will be the last six stages.  For the first six stages check out last week’s blog.

7. Approach to The Inmost Cave

We Heroes may once again face some of the doubts and fears that first surfaced upon our call to adventure. We may need some time to reflect upon this journey and the treacherous road ahead in order to find the courage to continue into the great unknown. This is the place in the journey where we may need to face our greatest fear lurking in the Special World. This is where it is important to continue all our requirements and maintain our Mastermind alliances.

8. Ordeal

There are many perils on the path to growth, discovery, and self-realization as the Hero engages in the Ordeal.  During this stage we face our greatest fear, confront the defences that we hold dear, and experience “death”. Only through some form of “death” can the Hero be reborn. What dies are the old patterns and behaviours, our defense systems. We go through the four stages of death, denial, anger, grief and acceptance. Then as Heroes we must call on an inner power, we don’t know we possess and must access our authentic self.  Going through this Ordeal somehow grants us greater power or insight which is necessary in order to fulfill our destiny.

9. Reward (The Ultimate Treasure)

We Heroes have survived death, overcome our greatest fear, and now earn the Reward that we sought. The Hero’s Reward comes in many forms: greater knowledge or insight and access to our authentic self. We have earned the right to celebrate as a result of the personal transformation we have undergone. The real change is always internal and now there is greater satisfaction in serving others in need as well.

10. The Road Back

We Heroes must finally recommit to completing the Journey and accept the Road Back to the Ordinary World. Like Crossing the Threshold, The Road Back, needs an event that will push the Hero through the Threshold, back into the Ordinary World. Challenges still lie ahead in the form of our inner old blueprint. We must deal with whatever issues were left unresolved at this stage of the journey. Keeping up with our daily requirements is a must.

11. Resurrection Rebirth & The Champion’s Return

We Heroes face the Resurrection which may be the final showdown between the authentic self and old blueprint. This final life-and-death Ordeal shows that we have maintained and can apply all that we has brought back to the Ordinary World.  Our Definite Major Purpose and what we learned about Laws of the Universe.  We are transformed with the attributes of our ordinary self in addition to the lessons and insights from the authentic self. In this final stage of the journey, we can become masters of both worlds, with the freedom to live and grow, impacting all of humanity. Returning with the authentic self, our experience of reality is different.

12. Return with The Elixir

The Return with the Elixir is the final reward earned on the Hero’s Journey.  The Elixir can be love, wisdom, or simply the experience of surviving the Special World. We will have grown, learned many things, faced many inner demons and even death but now look forward to the start of a new life and sharing the new wisdom of the journey. The true Hero returns with an Elixir to share with others and perhaps a new perspective for everyone to consider.

The Master Key Experience  has been formed for people to learn not only how to identify their Dharma or purpose, but also to find, follow and manifest their bliss. Basically, the Hero’s Journey.

“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”  Joseph Campbell

To your success.

Charlene