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Prevalence of Hero's Journey[edit]
I don't have a handy source, but I've heard much ranting on this point: that the "monomyth" is incredibly overrated, but since Lucas took it up it's become standard. - David Gerard (talk) 07:36, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
New Age[edit]
Never heard that before. So who took up his stuff? Details! - David Gerard (talk) 07:36, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
- He was all over the place, especially in neopagan circles. He gets invoked a lot by Tarot readers like Rachel Pollack and neopagans like Starhawk. This is how I heard of him well before he became a PBS celebrity. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 00:48, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
That Bioware image[edit]
Like many of its kind, it uses overly broad categories. I won't go into details, as my quota of RW time for today was already eaten up by the "scientific foreknowledge" crap.--ZooGuard (talk) 08:31, 9 July 2014 (UTC)