.......................................................................81 Emotions and the Ego................................................................................83 The Duck with a Human Mind..................................................................85 Carrying the Past.......................................................................................85 Individual and Collective...........................................................................87 How the Pain-Body Renews Itself.............................................................89 How the Pain-body Feeds on Your Thoughts............................................90 How the pain-Body Feeds on Drama.........................................................91 Dense Pain-bodies......................................................................................93 Entertainment, the Media, and the Pain-Body...........................................94 The Collective Female Pain-body.......................
may be so powerful that it forces change not only in them, but also those around them. T h e whole world is altered and the consequences spread far. There is a beau tiful image for this in Excalibur. W h e n Percival brings the Grail back to the ailing Arthur, the King revives and rides out with his knights again. T h e y are so filled with new life that flowers burst into bloom at their passing. T h e y are a living Elixir, whose mere presence renews nature. 221 T H E W R I T E R ' S JOURNEY ~ T H I R D EDITION Christopher Vogler T H E ELIXIR OF RESPONSIBILITY A common and powerful Elixir is for heroes to take wider responsibility at the Return, giving up their loner status for a place of leadership or service within a group. Families and relationships get started, cities are founded. T h e hero's center
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