What is the role of two paths

Why do people leave the safety of the village and go on the left handed path?  I have to imagine that when people leave for the left handed path, it has a grounding ability to those in the village.  Any group of people has the tendency to run away on its own, lose sight of what is important, lose focus.  Having people go out, learn and discover on their own, and come back and tell the story can help focus that community, help it remember what is important.  These are all euphemisms, but they get to a kernel of the truth.  In Christianity, we see in Christ a figure that came to liberate his people from the oppression of the roman, but not only the romans, but those in power within the jewish community that had focused so much on the law and the specifics of the ritual that the true power of religion was being lost.  Religion was becoming a club of the powerful instead of a balm to those in need of help.  Since religion is a human endeavor, it is prone to having this happen, and those that journey outside the village are the best suited to come back and correct the path of the village.  Remembering that the path of the village should be spiritual support, not oppression.

Each time in human history has had to have had its fair share of left handed sojourners, but we see many today, fleeing from organized religion, traveling away from home.  If all these that leave the village fail to ground themselves into a faith tradition, the sojourners run the risk of fail to teach their village anything.  If those that leave can not come back at some point, whether they speak to their specific village or not, and tell their journey narrative, even in mythical proportions, then nothing is gained, and villages will continue to slide into oppression and the paler side of human experience.    And the villages need to stay in tact to some extent, even if they are imperfect, because when folks have no village to leave from, and no village to tell a story too, then we start to enter into a real heap of trouble.

For those in the villages, listen to those who journey outside your comfort zones, for those on the left handed path, don't be afraid to talk about what it is you see, whatever it has been.  For both routing ourselves in tradition, ritual along with the history and context of a faith tradition helps, willing to always ask why we have those traditions and rituals, and maintaining the narratives and the myths that exist around them.