Today is Star Wars Day! And I just wanted to let post a few things because I’m a fan. Mostly of the original three movies, but still a fan!
I’m posting mostly recipes, but I found something interesting today. Jediism is a Thing. And I found two meditations on YouTube for it! One I did this morning, figuring the Force and Magic aren’t all that different. It went well and I thought I’d share!
I’m just finishing up the 3rd original! Watch the first two first of course. Lol.
Thank you for sharing the meditations! And May the Force Be With You!
Funny, I thought today we were supposed to say, “May the 4th be with you.”
Thank you for sharing these meditations!
You’re welcome! They’re pretty good, I was entertained!
Eh, either way. It’s all good! 
I was legit into Jediism for a hot minute when I was younger. It’s entirely valid despite what some may say.
I read some of their website and it looks really good!
Magick and the Force.
I wrote a paper on this subject.
I think Star Wars is a deeply spiritual work. I found an article that explores what was going on through George Lucas’s mind at the time. He seems to have been a total Eclectic!
Oct 2021
Magick and the Force.
I’d like to apologize to all of you for writing
another one of “those” papers.
I was watching Godzilla, (hey! I like to broaden
my knowledge base and stay sophisticated.)
Anyway, I decided to watch the original StarWars.
(See? I’m getting smarter and smarter.)
While watching this classic Sci-fi movie, it occurred
to me that the philosophy of the Force and
Magick weren’t all that dissimilar.
The FORCE was created by George Lucas in the 1970’s,
for his first StarWars movie. Magick , on the other hand,
has been with us since man reached ‘sentience’.
So how can they be compared, you ask?’
In an interview on YouTube, he (Mr. Lucas) explained
that the FORCE was a faith, not a religion,
I see a distinct parallel between the two beliefs.
(Magick and the Force.)
The FORCE is presented to us as surrounding us,
penetrating us and working through us.
To practice is to learn humility. You trusting
the wisdom of the Cosmos, don’t doubt or argue and
stop assuming that we know what’s best,
stop assuming that is a truth.
The Force works through nature, through us,
everything around us is connected.
(A Passage from the) Tao Te Ching
If you mold clay into a bowl,
the empty space becomes useful.
Cut out door and windows for the house,
the holes make it useful for windows and doors.
In other words:
The value comes from what is there.
The use comes from what is not there.
Ergo, empty your mind and self. (Meditation?)
If we throw out our assumption of the possible
and impossible, we are capable of miracles.
Everything is connected. Nature, the Universe,
and the Cosmos
StarWars, a new hope. George Lucas
Tao Te Ching
FYI: Scientology also came from a Sci-fi author but developed into a religion. And like all new and aggressive religions, it’s members became and at this time remain fanatical.
Garnet (does it again)
Thank you for these. I’d heard somewhere that Master Lucas had used other belief systems to pull together the Jedi belief system. Of course, things have changed a bit in the ensuing 49 years/ Disney occupation/ fanatacism, etc. It is still worth researching and finding the commonalities and “source of the Force,” if you will.
The meditations are great!
My path accepts this. Whenever a group of people start believing in something, it becomes real to them. Working within that belief system is valid.
For an interesting scan (it would be hard to read it all) see a summary of known new religions (which includes Jediism) here.
This often brings up the question of ‘what is real?’. That spawns the ‘spirit, energy, deity’ discussion. Most of that is here on Spells8 but is a little fragmented. The whole thing is one of my research fields and is both exciting and sometimes confusing.
Actually, from what I know, George Lucas read Joseph Campbell’s A Hero With A Thousand Faces, and even used it as a sort of guideline to Writing Star Wars. So making Jediism a real religion isn’t a big stretch for me.
More than Scientology at any rate. At least the Jedi’s made good movies. Battlefield Earth is said to be a stinker of a movie.
I get this. It’s like, the more you believe in a god, the more power they will have. Or at least that’s how I tend to think of it.
But then again maybe I got that from Xena and Ares? Who knows?
The movie is laughably bad - probably Travolta’s worst. The book is pretty good SciFi. It is in Epic format (meaning it is pretty long) but the discussion of courage under impossible situations made it a thriller. It has huge moments of cool and then drones on a bit like the older SciFi did. Think ‘Princess of Mars’ (not the movie). I don’t think the book had much to do with Scientology. Hubbard was strange. The Wiki about him is a good summary (HERE)
Yeah. I’ve tried to figure out Scientology but it just confuses me. But then again so do Flat Earthers and people who think the Moon Landing wasn’t real, so what do I know?
One of the challenges of the path I’m on is to understand the different practices and that is going to be a very long path… maybe impossible. I’m picking the big ones but there are thousands of small ones that have passionate followers. I can only accept that they believe - but understanding is a mountain that looks too big to climb.
Amethyst
You are absolutely right.
Thanks for the info. about Lucus and another book.
You can learn at any age!
Garnet
I’m that way with more than a few religions. Like the LDS Church, and a few others. I want to understand but I get confused. Doesn’t mean I don’t stop trying though.
You’re welcome! I read the Power of Myth a long time ago, like 35 years but it compared Luke Skywalker to Hercules and Odyssius. I was fascinated at the time that someone hundreds of years from now might find my second hand Millennium Falcon and think it a religious artifact.