<P> In this step, the hero faces those temptations, often of a physical or pleasurable nature, that may lead him or her to abandon or stray from his or her quest, which does not necessarily have to be represented by a woman . Woman is a metaphor for the physical or material temptations of life, since the hero - knight was often tempted by lust from his spiritual journey . </P> <P> Campbell: "The crux of the curious difficulty lies in the fact that our conscious views of what life ought to be seldom correspond to what life really is . Generally we refuse to admit within ourselves, or within our friends, the fullness of that pushing, self - protective, malodorous, carnivorous, lecherous fever which is the very nature of the organic cell . Rather, we tend to perfume, whitewash, and reinterpret; meanwhile imagining that all the flies in the ointment, all the hairs in the soup, are the faults of some unpleasant someone else . But when it suddenly dawns on us, or is forced to our attention that everything we think or do is necessarily tainted with the odor of the flesh, then, not uncommonly, there is experienced a moment of revulsion: life, the acts of life, the organs of life, woman in particular as the great symbol of life, become intolerable to the pure, the pure, pure soul . The seeker of the life beyond life must press beyond (the woman), surpass the temptations of her call, and soar to the immaculate ether beyond ." </P> <P> In this step the person must confront and be initiated by whatever holds the ultimate power in his or her life . In many myths and stories this is the father, or a father figure who has life and death power . This is the center point of the journey . All the previous steps have been moving into this place, all that follow will move out from it . Although this step is most frequently symbolized by an encounter with a male entity, it does not have to be a male; just someone or thing with incredible power . </P> <P> Campbell: "Atonement consists in no more than the abandonment of that self - generated double monster--the dragon thought to be God (superego) and the dragon thought to be Sin (repressed id). But this requires an abandonment of the attachment to ego itself, and that is what is difficult . One must have a faith that the father is merciful, and then a reliance on that mercy . Therewith, the center of belief is transferred outside of the bedeviling god's tight scaly ring, and the dreadful ogres dissolve . It is in this ordeal that the hero may derive hope and assurance from the helpful female figure, by whose magic (pollen charms or power of intercession) he is protected through all the frightening experiences of the father's ego - shattering initiation . For if it is impossible to trust the terrifying father - face, then one's faith must be centered elsewhere (Spider Woman, Blessed Mother); and with that reliance for support, one endures the crisis--only to find, in the end, that the father and mother reflect each other, and are in essence the same . The problem of the hero going to meet the father is to open his soul beyond terror to such a degree that he will be ripe to understand how the sickening and insane tragedies of this vast and ruthless cosmos are completely validated in the majesty of Being . The hero transcends life with its peculiar blind spot and for a moment rises to a glimpse of the source . He beholds the face of the father, understands--and the two are atoned ." </P>

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