Quo Vadis
En pilgrimsfærd på Pacific Crest Trail.
Velkommen til Quo Vadis – en podcast om at finde dit kald og tage på dit livs helterejse. Jeg hedder Uffe Sveegaard, og i 2023 vandrede jeg den 4.000 km lange Pacific Crest Trail fra Mexico til Canada gennem den amerikanske vildmark. På denne episke rejse fandt jeg støtte og inspiration i Joseph Campbells fortælling om Heltens Rejse – en universel fortælling om forvandling og mod, når vi følger vores kald og træder ud i det ukendte.
I denne podcast deler jeg mine egne erfaringer og samtaler med inspirerende gæster, der giver indsigt i, hvordan vi kan finde modet til at følge vores egne kald. Quo Vadis er en rejse gennem længsel, frygt og håb, og en udforskning af, hvordan myter og eventyr kan hjælpe os med at forstå vores eget livs rejse.
Lyt med og lad dig inspirere til at tage dit første skridt ind i det ukendte!
Quo Vadis
Episode 12: The Return
In this final episode of the first Quo Vadis cycle, I speak with mythologist and storyteller Dr. Catherine Svehla, host of the podcast Myth Matters, about the most overlooked and difficult stage of the Hero's Journey: the return.
Inspired by Joseph Campbell's idea of "the return with the elixir," we explore what it means to come home after deep transformation - and how to live with what you have learned.
After five months on the Pacific Crest Trail, I walked around Nuuk with a secret inside my body - the knowledge that I could carry far more than I believed. But how do you share what you've discovered without sounding like someone who had a revelation on a mountain ridge? How do you find a new way to live in the world—not as the old self, but as the transformed one?
This is where the hero must learn that the journey never truly ends, but continues in another way.
This episode closes the first Quo Vadis cycle. The journey continues, though -now in English - as the path leads toward a new call: Continental Divide Trail. I'm hiking this brutal 3.000 mile trail next year, though it truly scares me, but at the same time draws me, so I gotta go ..
For as T.S. Eliot wrote: "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."