Campbell's Journey
Joseph Campbell told people to follow this.
What is Bliss?
Those who travel / live in motorhomes with no permanent address.
What are rubber tramps?
In high school, instead of attending keggers Chris did this.
What is helped homeless people.
Campbell tells us that a hero goes on a journey because of this.
What is a call? or what is being forced to go?
Chris spends several months here.
What is the magic bus?
In this the hero is entrapped in his unconscious. The hero refuses to go on the journey.
What is the Belly of the Whale?
Pennies from heaven. Random gifts found on the road.
What is serendipity?
After graduating from college, Chris's first action was this.
What is donate $24,000 to Oxfam
Two types of heroes.
What are physical and spiritual?
What does Chris feel poisoned by?
Something good for society.
What is a boon?
Chris embraced this trait like many heroes before him including the fictional Sir Gawain and writers like Leo Tolstoy and Henry David Thoreau.
What is chastity?
Chris saw this as an opportunity to shed unnecessary baggage.
What is Chris's car won't start after the flood.
Chris's parent encouraged him to become this.
What is a lawyer?
John Krakauer argues that Chris died from this.
What is being poisoned by a potato seed?
When the hero is torn apart, mangled, or crucified.
What is sparagmos?
The Teklanika River could be called this.
What is a threshold?
The Gulf of California
What is the place where Chris nearly drowns in his canoe?
A mentor
What role does Ron Franz play?
Chris's return threshold.
What is the Teklanika River?
Glorification or rebirth as a new being.
What is apotheosis?
The mysterious order behind things.
What is Synchronisty?
Wayne Westerburg
Who is a father /figure?
The skill that Ron Franz passes to Chris
What is leathercraft?
Chris's final statement.
What is "Happiness is only real when shared."