In a work of wide-ranging scope and insight, Le Grice analyzes myths, religious texts, and scenes from a number of popular films–Jason and the Argonauts, Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, and more–to illuminate the archetypal stages and themes of the hero’s journey, helping to make the deepest of transformative experiences more readily intelligible to us all.

Keiron Le Grice, Ph.D., is adjunct faculty in the Jungian and Archetypal Studies specialization at the Pacifica Graduate Institute, California, and in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He is the author of The Rebirth of the Hero, The Archetypal Cosmos, and Discovering Eris, and the founding editor of Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology. Keiron was educated at the University of Leeds (B.A. honors Philosophy and Psychology) and the California Institute of Integral Studies (M.A. and Ph.D. Philosophy and Religion). He currently lives in Wales with his wife and son.