The Child
The hero|ine's journey #4
Over the last three posts we have encountered different types of spiritual hero|ine - the Sailor, the Dancer and the Jester.
These figures appear in two very different traditions - the atheistic philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and the spiritual tradition of Indian Tantra.
Each of these has a particularly heroic feature: the Sailor is courageous, the Dancer develops absolute mastery, the Jester alchemises the grandiose and the petty into joyful appreciation of life.
Today we discover a new character: the Child. Both Nietzsche’s atheism and Tantric spirituality capture something heroic in maintaining and innocent and playful attitude towards.
B oth traditions ask us to become more childlike - more innocent, more playful.
