Fiction Guide: The Hero with a Thousand Faces: The Crossing of the Threshold and the Importance of dividing the Starting Point from the Magical World
The Crossing of the Threshold
“ONCE having traversed the threshold, the hero moves in a dream landscape of curiously fluid, ambiguous forms, where he must survive a succession of trials. This is a favorite phase of the myth adventure. It has produced a world literature of miraculous tests and ordeals. The hero is covertly aided by the advice, amulets, an…