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Parabola's Spring 1976 issue: The Hero The hero: that more than life-sized figure of myth and history and fairy tale; the conqueror of evil, the liberator, the rescuer of the oppressed. But who is the hero? How terrible to think, as P.L. Travers points out in this issue, of not being the hero of one's own life; this is the role for which each of us is cast, no matter how unsuccessfully we play it. And if the part seems too big, if we picture the hero as being indeed "more than life-sized," it is because our daily life has dwindled, become less than real, and only pygmy proportions seem natural to us. Every true teaching, every genuine tradition has sought to train its disciples to act this part, to become in fact followers of the great quest for one's self. Saint or sannyasin, monk or craft apprentice, Sioux sun-dance warrior, Muslim sheikh or knight of the Round Table, all are striving for the conquest of the ego-dragon, the finding and liberating of the pure essence, the center of being. Every person is a potential hero, even ourselves, and every society, even our own, is a potential training ground for those who recognize and accept their role. This recognition may be buried deeply in the subconscious, yet it expresses itself today in our torn and dying world as it has throughout time, if we can learn how to decode the message of myths ancient and modern, of our own customs, our own actions, and our own dreams. This world we live in needs our heroism as it has never before been needed in human memory. How to be heroes today? Who will help us to learn, or give us the magic gifts that win the treasure in the fairy tale? --from the editorial Focus Cover: Hanuman The monkey god, son of the wind, who leapt the ocean to rescue his master's wife, and broke off a mountain-top for herbs to cure the master's wounds In this issue:
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