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Atonement with the Father

from The Hero's Journey by Beth Kinderman

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"The supernatural helpers of the myths and fairy tales of the world are mankind's assurances that the arrow, the flames, and the flood are not as brutal as they seem. For the ogre aspect of the father is a reflex of the victim's own ego...and the fixating idolatry of that pedagogical nonthing is itself the fault that keeps one steeped in a sense of sin, sealing the potentially adult spirit from a better balanced, more realistic view of the father, and therewith of the world. Atonement (at-one-ment) consists in no more than the abandonment of that self-generated double monster...One must have a faith that the father is merciful, and then a reliance on that mercy." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero With A Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell’s works and the trademark HERO’S JOURNEY™ are used under license by the Joseph Campbell Foundation (www.jcf.org).

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if I put my faith in falsehood
it will be at my expense
I read all the proofs & theorems
couldn't come to their defense
there's no reason to believe in
something more than you can sense.
Evermore & evermore.

all the same there's this connection
in each language & each land
I have seen it stir in strangers
felt it pass from hand to hand
may my certainty desert me
if I claim to understand.
Evermore & evermore.

there's a caravan of sages
who have felt the sacred thirst
for this Power demanding wholeness
that will settle for my worst
I will cast off their confusion
& I will not be the first.
Evermore & evermore.

still they poison & pervert you
o deep Love that holds me strong
they would sooner praise destruction
than admit they might be wrong
for no scripture can contain you
which does not exclude this song.
Evermore & evermore.

of the Father's love begotten
ere the worlds began to be
He is Alpha & Omega
He the Source, the ending, He
of the things that are, that have been
& that future years shall see.
Evermore & evermore.

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from The Hero's Journey, released May 3, 2019
Beth Kinderman: vocals
Dave Stagner: synth

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Beth Kinderman & the Player Characters Minneapolis, Minnesota

If you like epic song cycles based upon multi-thousand-page fantasy novels, thought-provoking lyrics, violin solos, complex vocal harmonies, huge drums, and weird guitar effects, but you also think that more musicians should write songs about surviving the zombie apocalypse and attempting to sleep with video game characters, Beth Kinderman & the Player Characters are the band for you. ... more

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