Linda Hogan is among the authors who have written about her real life experiences considering every pain that she passed through without any fear. This has mostly happened because she has words of encouraging more people who could be under such suffocation and bondages. above all, she helps them know what they can do or go about their situations by just telling what she felt it best if they relate to her life experience to enable them to face any challenge that comes their way. “Self-telling is very rare for a native woman, but when I allow myself to be reserved the young people will not be able to know how I went about my life,” says Linda Hogan as she gives advice to young people (Hogan, 2001 p. 22). On the other hand, Campbell shared his point of view on the role of women as role models in the society. He advocates that women should use the patron power they possess to play their role in the society. Campbell Joseph illuminates the nature of different people experiences, which commonly transcends in both geographical and historical bounder and helps in uniting the human race. He outlines the sense of self-satisfactory, contentment and self-awareness. He emphasized that “bliss is: that deep sense of being present, of doing what you absolutely must to be yourself Your bliss can guide you to that transcendent mystery, because bliss is the welling up of the energy of the transcendent wisdom within you.” These two authors of literature have well explored on the importance of personal myth in today's culture.
Further, Joseph Campbell is very famous for the remarkable work he does in every art of writing he uses and how he develops his stories. He is mostly known for the defining myth as “the religion of other people” in which he adds by saying that myth plays the basic role or functions of assisting all people go through life experience”(Campbell, 2008 p.13). According to Campbell, (2008) most of the world’s powerful myths are meant to support the individual’s heroic path towards what he terms as bliss p.21. All through his best-selling classic books, Myths to Live By and The Power of Myth, Pathways to Bliss shows how much the author was for the idea of myth a religion of a certain group of people.
On the other hand, Linda Hogan created the concept of the personal myth by sharing he encountered with the rest of the people through her art of writing. She expounds on how her intention to base her writing on pain the felt but ended up express love. She passed through many conflicts starting from the internal to the external life where she faces very many challenges. She goes ahead and says how much she suffered the cultural difference with her relatives who wanted things to be done as their ancient grandparents lived and so when she came up with any new idea she would be pinned down. Further, she reveals how much she lived in an isolated kind of life during her childhood life due to the conflicts that were within her. On the other side, she is also passing through a tough moment when she finds herself loving an elder man.
The significance of personal is evidence in the book where she blames nature, which almost claimed her life after she was engaged in an accident and falling in a runway horse. The accident caused a debilitating physical condition that made her go through very unbearable conditions with her two adopted children. The entire experience is clear indication on the importance of personal myth in the making up of a person character or traits through experience of another.
Moreover, Hogan has really expressed many messages through her life experience as a Native American with every problem that she passed through. Her message is all about patience and a heart, which does not give up seeking for desired dream. This is because, amidst all the problems that she went through as she tries her fate in life, she did not give up but still was able to press on towards her dream. Hogan was content with want the environment offered to her and use the situation to tackle the challenges that came her way. Personal myth is emergence in occasion where she was satisfied with want what life made her go through.
Further, in Campbell’s popular lectures and dialogues, which highlight his remarkable story telling and ability to apply the larger themes of world mythology, he emphasizes the belief as much as he understands it. He believes that through telling the idea of myth to a mass of people, they will understand and help them succumb to personal growth and the quest for transformation. However, along the way, he greatly show how myth can help people be able to identify and follow their bliss. Hogan also use her writing to motive the reader and the community at large that relating to her life experience they would be able to develop love for what is taking place and forget of the pain .
However, the two authors have made a very big mark in the field of literature by ensuring that people understand how well or bad a cultural effect mythology can treat the owners and the society. They help people in a more individual way to judge and decide on their own way following the importance of personal myth in today's culture. A person’s conscious part is comprised of relevant information, which would indicate that a particular individual is attentive at the specific given time. The preconscious person comprises of relevant e information outside which are beyond his or her attention but are readily available whenever it is recommended or needed. The unconscious comprises of desires, memories feelings, and thoughts, of which the public have no knowledge or awareness and it influence most aspect of their daily lives. This therefore tells that a personal level of belief is the best because one is able to dictate what they feel they want.
In conclusion, the authors have given out their popular experiences as they try to implement dialogues, which highlight is very remarkable. The ability to story tell and apply the larger themes of world mythology they both sensitize the belief as much as they understand in their own levels. They seem to all believe that through telling the idea of myth to a mass of people, they will understand and help them succumb to personal growth and the quest for transformation. Although at different circumstances, Hogan and Campbell wrote of experience in and their own perspectives.
Works Cited
Campbell, Joseph. Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation. Novato, Calif.: New World Library: 2008. Print.
Hogan, Linda. The woman who watches over the world: a native memoir. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001. Print.
