First you’re on a hero’s journey—it’s about gathering experience and a history of your own. The next journey—the artist’s journey—is about the self-discovery phase that comes after. In this new sphere we “get down to business” and do the work.
#Things to consider
- The hero’s journey is all about heading out into the unknown. It’s about gathering experience, and a history that’s your own.
- The artist’s journey is about what comes after. It’s about carrying out the work. It’s about the process of self-discovery which follows.
- The life of an artist may look ordinary on the surface, even boring.
- The artist is on a mission. Her life has acquired a purpose. It’s about following her muse. It’s about becoming who she really is.
- The artist’s journey is internal.
- The artist’s real medium is thought.
- The artist is not expressing himself. He is discovering himself.
- The artist discovers herself by the work she produces.
- All the artist’s enemies are mental.
- Writers write to discover themselves.
- An amateur can’t start, can’t keep going, can’t finish, can’t work alone, can’t work with others.
- This higher realm is the level upon which “the future” is formed. It is the plane of What Will Be, the dimension of potentiality.
- The artist’s role is to make the unconscious conscious.
- The universe exists on two levels. The first is the material world. The second level is the higher level. It’s “above” the first, it’s an invisible world—the sphere of pure potentiality. The skill of the artist is to travel between these worlds and bring things from the second level into the first. Making these round-trips is the skill of the artist.