Mystic Athletes

Escape isn’t the goal. Coming back to yourself is - This isn’t fantasy it’s what real feels like.

Never Really Ends -https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1486233266196871&id=100044306355443&mibextid=wwXIfr

Pathways with Joseph Campbell is an official podcast of the Joseph Campbell Foundation and the MythMaker Podcast Network, hosted by Brad Olson, PhD. Each episode uncovers rare recordings of Joseph Campbell and explores the deeper currents beneath his words.

The hero’s journey never really ends. It just takes a breath. We are taking a brief pause.
New episodes return in June.

Until then, explore the archive - five seasons of conversations that illuminate myth, meaning, and the human adventure.

Subscribe and listen wherever you get your podcasts. Share with your friends and leave us a review!

Link to episodes:
https://pathways-with-joseph-campbell.simplecast.com/

From The Hero with a Thousand Faces

CHAPTER 3: Refusal of the Call: Meeting Fear With Presence
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”— Frank Herbert, Dune
The Refusal of the Call
At some point, we all stand at the edge—called to change, yet frozen by fear. The refusal of the Call is not failure. It is part of the Hero’s Journey. It is the pause before the leap. The silence before the storm. For us as Mystic Athletes, this threshold is deeply personal. It may arise as fear of letting go, fear of being seen, fear of not measuring up. Or it may be more subtle—a quiet resistance, a rational excuse, a return to what’s known. For many of us, especially those shaped by trauma, doubt, or rigid belief systems, the Call may initially feel threatening—not as an invitation, but as a disruption to structures once believed to provide safety.

How many times can we catch ourselves going over something in the past within the internal dialogue of mind and then just stop to regain presence consciousness? https://www.facebook.com/BuddhismPageFB/posts/pfbid0BRxX1zxwagEaZpBZwdMquZrpwEaoBML2MuuZ8FWad4eKpARpBTqyTYgRw5xV57kAl

https://www.facebook.com/JosephCampbellFoundation/posts/pfbid0wWSfjVSs5XdgWvMBvf4EpjwCGYoKq7UUVKH1fccCpznJkc7qd3836DTnb1LeGEGfl

“God and Buddhas in the Orient are not final terms like Yahweh, the Trinity, or Allah, in the West - but point beyond themselves to that ineffable being, consciousness, and rapture that is the All in all of us. And in their worship, the ultimate aim is to effect in the devotee a psychological transfiguration through a shift of his plane of vision from the passing to the enduring, through which he may come finally to realize in experience (not simply as an act of faith) that he is identical with that before which he bows."
-Joseph Campbell

From The Flight of the Wild Gander p.161-162

"Of the moment, be. In the moment, live. The art of remaining in the present, learn. Neither the past nor the future exists." Yoda