Tag Archive: the hero’s journey


I found this short tutorial on youtube, which can be applied to the concept of UniThou by thinking of ‘Uni’ as the immanent/depth aspect, and Thou as the developmental aspect.
As Thou develops, it becomes broader, and Uni ‘involves’ while becoming deeper.

Those breath-taking moments in which the two aspects are in harmony, are what I refer to as moments of discovery, where the transcendent experience that I term ‘UniThou’ takes place. UniThou is not an experience we can cling to at all, because it’s not a god or an object or anything conceivable. The moment of discovery, itself, is what we truly desire, because of its indescribable uniqueness, for each individual, and for each new time it occurs. Any interpretation of the experience will never do it justice, so we let it go, but the journey goes on. Why? Because the appetite, or curiosity returns, due to the fact that, while we have expanded consciousness, our potential to experience that discovery has also deepened.

The fractal shows us that we aren’t just ‘going around in circles’ on the path of UniThou, but are becoming more multi-dimensional as we spiral into and out of the darkness.

The answer to this one is simple: YOU are its icon, YOU are its messiah, and the myths of Unithou are the stories of YOUR life, which YOU write, whether knowingly or otherwise.

It can help us a lot to reconnect with the mythic heroes that inspired us when we were kids, and ask “Why that story? Why that hero?”. There will always be some psychological appeal that attracted you to this particular one over the others. It’s important to remember that the villain usually makes the hero, because usually, the villain acts, and the hero reacts. The hero and the villain represent the higher and lower powers within us, both of which are always present, even if one hasn’t made itself known in quite a while. The hero never kills the villain, and the villain never succeeds in killing the hero, because without one, there would be no adventure, no story. The terms villain, trickster, and demon are all intertwined, but we’ve been programmed to despise and repress them:

So when we feel this impulse in ourselves, and recognise it as “daimonic” we’ll become more conscious of its importance to our experience of divine uniqueness.

I’ve posted two brilliant examples of the psychological dynamic, without which we couldn’t hope to experience the unification of opposites as UniThou, meaning One Holiness, one you, your unique divinity encountered via the cycle of time: