Initiation: the road of trials After leaving the "departure" phase, the hero experiences what is known as 'initiation'. The first stage of initiation is the road of trials. According to Joseph Campbell's model, as the hero's journey continues, they depart from the comfort zones of their old lifestyle and step into a dream landscape of curiosity, ambiguity and challenge. 'He' must survive successive trials and ordeals which must be overcome, often with great difficulty, in …showed first 75 words of 789 total…

…showed last 75 words of 789 total…of the nether world to be assessed. This confrontation epitomises the whole sense of the road of trials. The hero whether god or goddess, an everyday man or woman or the disturbed dreamer of a dream discovers and takes on board the perils of their quest. One by one these resistances are broken, the hero transcends his previous limitations and reaches a new level of existence, and all manner of things seem to be possible.