How We Mortgage our Present

- Reg Harris
Let’s not demean ourselves, demean our dreams by pushing them off on some list of things we want to do before we die…the promise of this moment is all we have. ~ Charlie Wittmack ~ The Journey Begins with a Single Step Some 2600 years ago, the Chinese philosopher Lau Tzu wrote, The tallest tree […]

Michael Crichton on Climbing Kilimanjaro

- Reg Harris
After climbing Kilimanjaro, I had to acknowledge that I was mentally and physically tough. I was forced to redefine myself. [It] was the hardest thing I had ever done…but I had done it. “I had defined myself too narrowly” In his wonderful book Travels (1988), author and director Michael Crichton describes his ascent of Mt. […]

An Impulse to Something Greater

- Reg Harris
The Call signifies signifies death and rebirth, the death of our old self or old life and the rebirth of the new. We tend to think of the Call only as a call to rebirth, but it is also the end that allows the beginning. In his seminal book on the hero’s journey, The Hero […]

Recognizing Your Journey

- Reg Harris
We don’t really “take” a journey: we “unfold” a journey. Our journeys evolve organically as a dialogue between ourselves and our world. We act and the world gives us feedback. We evaluate the feedback, explore the potentials, and our journey unfolds. The questions I am most often asked in regard to the Hero’s Journey relate […]

Mythos and Logos

- Reg Harris
Mythic thought touches the essence of experience: the significance and meaning of life. In our logos-oriented world, we must nurture our mythic side to maintain balance and health. Our lives are filled with polar systems: good and bad, right and wrong, rich and poor, light and dark, conservative and liberal, being and nonbeing. Maintaining our […]