I grew up on old movies. My mother escaped the 'real' world by moving into the world of Hollywood glitter and great movie making. I was the family member who sat right next to her and watched every minute. The Thin Man, It Happened One Night, Arsenic and Old Lace - they were all part of my foray into the imagined. Even today I can be surfing television with my remote surfing the channels and I will suddenly stop on a channel to watch an old movie.
I don't think Ted Turner really knew what he was doing when he started his station (TCM) in 1996. Movies are one of these spiritual gates into who we are.
One of the exercises I did with my hypnotherapy clients was to have them name their five favorite movies. This gave such deep insight into the client's perception of life. It showed me how each person viewed life and how it fit together.
In the end, movies reflect the archetypes, developed by Carl Jung. It's given me the background in my universal framework.
I am every man forced into surreal situations, a reluctant hero. I must rise to heroism, all the while exclaiming "this is not my job.' It enables me to live with special abilities but stay in the middle of situations letting everyone know it is no big deal.
I read a science fiction story about a young man. Somehow the universe energetically took him out of his life to another world. Each year on the other planet was only a month in his old world. He was on the other planet for some six months which translated to six years. He ended up being a warrior in the other world and eventually the leader of a country. He came back with a honed body and a leadership charisma. All the while he kept stating, "this is not something for me to do; get someone else to save you!"
Why do I make today's blog about the reluctant hero? It speaks to the fact we are the most violent country in the world. What an ugy comment but so true! In America, we still live in the old west. So many guns, so much resolving problems through the use of guns.
But notice the trend. In more and more situations, there is in the midst of the incident 'a reluctant hero' who stopped the violence or stood up with kindness, love, and compassion. Heroes are showing up in so many ways. It is the bride whose parents weren't available to walk her down the aisle - but her oncologists were. She was in remission from cancer. It is my friend giving his brother his kidney in a six-way kidney transplant so that everyone involved ended up healthy. There are lots of examples.
However for each of us who have not yet been in that kind of a situation, I think it also has us internally wondering.. Do we have it within us to be the reluctant hero? Can we be the one to take the step of kindness, of bravery, the step of resolution. The tough part is until 'the rubber hits the road' we don't know.
So the question arises if we can be the next Harry Potter or Hans Solo or Barbie? I pray that I'm never in the position of having to make the choice but I also pray that I can be that hero if I am called forth. Because in the end the truth is that whatever we are doing, we are on our path - always!
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