The important thing is that the archetypal canon is always created and brought to birth by 'eccentric' individuals.  These are the founders of religions, sects, philosophies, political sciences, ideologies, and spiritual movements, in the security of which the collective man lives without needing to come into contact with the primordial fire of direct revelation, or to experience the throes of creation.

• the hero
• collective
• creation
• experience
• birth