If we could dredge up something forgotten not only by ourselves but by our whole generation or our entire civilization, we should become indeed the , theof the day—a personage of not only local but world historical moment. In a word: the first work of the hero is to retreat from the world scene of secondary effects to those causal zones of the psyche where the difficulties really reside, and there to clarify the difficulties, eradicate them in his own case (i.e., give battle to the nursery demons of his local culture) and break through to the undistorted, direct experience and assimilation of whatcalled "the ." This is the process known toandphilosophy as viveka, "dicrimination."

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