[Excerpt from]

Joseph Campbell's Power of Myth:

"It's a cycle - it's a going and a return that the hero cycle represents.
But then this can be seen also in the simple initiation ritual, where a child has to give up his childhood, and become an adult - has to die, you might say, to his infantile personality and psyche and come back as a self-responsible adult. That's a fundamental experience everyone has to undergo. We're in our childhood for at least 14 years, and then to get out of that posture of dependency - psychological dependency, into one of psychological self-responsibility requires a death and resurrection."

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