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I have to admit that this was a tough one to figure out! Welcome to step 7 of Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey: Meeting With the Goddess. We’re talking about sex on this episode of Think Spiritual Podcasts.

It's finally time to listen-in on another Adventurer's Personal Spiritual Journey!

Welcome, once again, Spiritual Seekers to Think Spiritual Podcasts. This week I am finally releasing a new Personal Spiritual Journeys episode and this marks the first episode that I have managed to produce online using Zencastr.

My guest for this episode is Rich Decker from http://mindfulaccord.com/ and The Hero's Journey Podcast.

Jay from Death by Foui joins me on Think Spiritual for this episode of (Spiritual Lessons from) 80s Swordporn!

Jay and I have wanted to get together and discuss this movie for quite a while now because it absolutely is one of our favourites. In fact, I posit that Willow is a (or the) "desert-island movie" - as in, "If you were to be stranded on a desert-island and could only have one movie with you, what would it be?"

I definitely watch Willow at least once a year and sometimes twice in the same year. In preparation for this podcast, I watched it twice in a week.

The first time I watched it on my own to see if I could glean anything new from it. I had never watched Willow from the Hero's Journey perspective and as I did so, the truth of the movie dawned on me.

I wanted to talk about it so badly at that point that I had to watch the movie a second time with Christine so I could tell her the mythology and internal message I was seeing.

I hope you enjoy this breakdown of a great movie...which could alternately be titled: The Tale of the Unloved Princess.

I love it when I find a great message hidden in a strange place and today’s episode of Think Spiritual is no exception. Let’s examine some spiritual elements found in the 1991 mega-hit, Terminator 2.

Hello my Think Spiritual Listeners!

It's about time that Bernardo and Gonzo and I got down to the crux of the matter and discussed the movie that started the Think Spiritual Swordporn Series: Conan the Barbarian!

We have had numerous conversations about this film and it comes up in other conversations as well, because it is a movie that portrays the masculine and feminine archetypes to their perfection.

What? The perfect feminine archetype? In Conan?

Absolutely. The character of Valeria is the epitome of the feminine. The strong, powerful defender, willing to lay her life down for what is hers and who is ultimately raised to Goddess status.

I will admit that the audio quality for this episode is not the best. Ever since I ripped the podcast room apart I haven't gotten the "table format" back to its former glory. However, it's still quite listenable. I couldn't bear to edit this conversation much, so all I did was clip the last 20 minutes off to leave this one at the hour-mark. I may release that last 20 minutes at some other time in the future. It is a good conversation on its own.

Enjoy!

Alright, we’ve been in the belly of the whale long enough, dear listeners. It’s time to embrace who we really are and go take on some monsters. And now...well, now it is birth time. This is the time when everything comes together and we find out what the first five steps of the journey have been preparing us for.

Listen in as Bernardo basically figures out the entire history of the planet Krull, and we discuss why there isn't really a strong protagonist in this movie. He doesn't exist until he joins his feminine archetype and receives the power to vanquish the enemy!

It is finally time to talk about one of my favourite scenes in a television series. I'm going full spiritual-geek on you today as we take a deeper look at Star Trek Deep Space Nine.

Well, it looks like I have finally come through my own “Belly of the Whale” experience in terms of juggling my various personal activities. Let’s see if I can get this Hero’s Journey series kick-started again.

What is a kingdom without a King and how does the King come back? He has to forgive those who betrayed him.