Christopher Vogler The Writers Journey
Abject
cowards have the sleeping potential to become heroes, and many saints began as great
sinners. T h i s eternally changing feature of reality is described by the Taoist symbol
of Yin and Yang, the two comma shapes flowing into one another, each with the seed
of its opposite deep in its center.
T h e more polarized a system is, the more likely it is to reverse its polarity. T h i s
can happen little by litde, in graduated stages, or it can come about catastrophically
and all at once. Under the stimulus of conflict with a polarized opposite, a character
will begin to oscillate, to swing like a pendulum, further away from the opposite at
times, closer at other times. If the stimulus is continued to a certain tipping point,
the character may flip polarity, and become temporarily aligned with the opposite
pole.
T h e shy person, impacted repeatedly by an outgoing person, will retreat and
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