T h e y set themselves a new goal, to escape, find further adventure, or return home. But before any o f those goals are achieved, there is another test to pass, the final exam of the journey, Resurrection. 193 T H E W R I T E R ' S JOURNEY ~ T H I R D EDITION Christopher Vogler QUESTIONING THE JOURNEY 1 . W h a t is T h e R o a d Back in A League of Their Own! Awakenings! Unforgiven) Terminator 2 ? From the writer's point of view, what are the advantages and disadvantages of heroes being ejected or chased from the Special World? O f leaving voluntarily? 2. W h a t have you learned or gained from confronting death, defeat, or danger? Did you feel heroic? H o w can you apply your feelings to your writing, to the reactions of your characters? 3. H o w do your heroes rededicate themselves to the quest? 4
conflict. It requires a high degree of Presence to avoid reacting when confronted by someone with such an active pain-body. If you are able to stay present, it sometimes happens that your Presence enables the other person to disidentify from his or her own pain-body ad thus experience the miracle of a sudden awakening. Although the awakening may be short-lived, the awakening process will have become initiated. One of the first such awakenings that I witnessed happened many years ago. My doorbell rang close to eleven o'clock at night. My neighbor Ethel's anxiety-laden voice came through the intercom. “We need to talk. This is very important. Please let me in.” Ethel was middle-aged, intelligent, and highly educated. She also had a strong ego and a heavy pain-body. She escaped form Nazi Germany when she was an adolescent, and many of her family members perished in the concentration camps.
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