Hero's Breath

Iroh’s question to his nephew, “Who are you, and what do you want?” has been ringing in my mind a lot lately. This was a pivotal moment...

In part four of the last miniseries I said that the elixir I brought back with me, that of personal responsibility, meritocratic hard...

Once they arrived at the hidden firebending temple, Aang and Zuko found a series of statues depicting a martial arts form called, “The...

Balance is the central theme of ATLA, and it’s no accident that much of that world is inspired by Asian cultures and their art. Eastern...

Before Iroh taught Zuko how to redirect lightning, he tried teaching him how to create it. However, after nearly blowing himself up...

By the second season of ATLA, Zuko and Iroh became more than exiles; they get branded as traitors by Zuko’s psychopathic sister, Azula,...

A show that I do not talk enough about in these blogs is Avatar: The Last Airbender (ATLA), and that’s a personal failing. I’ve included...

When discussing the Atonement with the Father stage in my first round of blogs, I said that the only way to counter the Dragon of...

Visionary inventor Buckminster Fuller said, “You never change things by fighting against the existing reality. To change something, build...

In 2003, psychologist Dr. Maja Djikic (then a graduate student) penned a paper with her professor entitled, “You Can Neither Remember Nor...

In my first round through the monomyth, the Elixir I attained was the discovery of conservative ideals of meritocracy, rugged...

As I went deeper into my unconscious mind, I went from battling a mighty dragon that made me both manic and depressed as it pushed me to...

If it’s one thing I’ve learned in going through the hero’s journey, it’s surrender. Not surrender in the hippie-dippie,...

In ancient belief systems from around the world, Nature itself was depicted as feminine. Even now we refer to the planet as “Mother...

Because of the name, “Meeting with the Goddess”, people often misunderstand what the seventh stage of the monomyth is all about, but it...

Once the hero gets acquainted with the new world he finds himself in, the real trials begin. He is going to fight, and he is going to...

Over the course of the next couple of months I gave WFG my all. I invited quests to the corporate overview like a madman. A few people...

The moment that the hero crosses the first threshold from his ordinary world to the special world is usually pretty quick. It’s often...

Let me start this blog off by saying that what I found at Revolution Financial Management was not a multi-level-marketing company,...