Hi allabout. I love what your thinking about! One of my favorite ways of looking at the archetype of the hero in modern days is by seeing each of us individual human beings as a hero living out the myth of our lives. Joseph Campbell refers to this living out our life as the epic myth that it is as the Hero's Journey. I think that if each of us can embrace our Self as hero and our life as Myth, then the purposefulness, meaning and wisdom that would be generated would create a very different world indeed.