Solitude Is Beautiful by JANINA GOMES https://www.speakingtree.in/article/solitude-is-beautiful
Solitude is used ceremonially throughout the world by indigenous cultures, as an ancient form of initiation.
Such practices challenge the individual, who alone in the wilderness battles fear and loneliness to discover inner strengths and true identity. This is called the Wilderness Experience. But there is not only the wilderness experience.
“Spirituality is not to be learnt by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be — we must learn to penetrate things and find God there.”
For media students - this is an exercise to script and picturise the "solitariness" that could trigger the rejuvenation of the character. Jan 21, 2022, Context check - the Hero's journey!
This image outlines the basic path of the monomyth, or "Hero's Journey". The diagram is loosely based on Campbell (1949) and (more directly?) on Christopher Vogler, "A Practical Guide to Joseph Cambell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces" (seven-page-memo 1985). Campbell's original diagram was labelled "The adventure can be summarised in the following diagram:" and had the following items: Call to Adventure Helper Threshold of Adventure: Threshold crossing; Brother-battle; Dragon-battle; Dismemberment; Crucifixion; Abduction; Night-sea journey; Wonder journey; Whale's belly Tests Helpers 1. Sacred Marriage; 2. Father Atonement; 3. Apotheosis; 4. Elixir Theft Flight Threshold of Adventure: Return, Resurrection, Rescue, Threshold Elixir