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The Superhero Formula: Sex, Love, and Faith

Steven Barnes
6 min readSep 5, 2019

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There are two major pieces to the Lifewriting puzzle: the “Hero’s Journey” viewed as a pattern of action and a syntax of challenges and the skills to address them. And the “Chakras” as a map of the flow of our growth from infancy to old age, from sleeping to awareness.

One is six thousand years old, the other older than humanity: the Hero’s Journey pattern can be seen in animal behavior as well. NO one created it. Story tellers have used it since forever, and we’ve been consciously playing with it for about fifty years now. One of the beautiful things is examining how different points of view or approaches to success, personal development, or healing fit onto the patterns. In fact, they fit onto each other: the Hero’s Journey can be seen as the path between any two “chakra” levels: you have your survival skills established, but now you want sex/love. How many stories have we seen about THAT simple search? And how often have we traveled that road ourselves?

Once you start to understand the pattern, and the way they interact (forming into a dynamic sphere), you will understand any process in your life with the wisdom of age and the perspective of an angel.

The “Three Energy Centers” are “just” clusters of the “Chakras”:

Belly Brain: survival, sex, power.

Heart Center: Emotion, communication

Head Center: Thought and spirit.

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Steven Barnes
Steven Barnes

Written by Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes is a NY Times bestselling author, ecstatic husband and father, and holder of black belts in three martial arts. www.lifewritingpodcast.com.

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