Star Wars - George Lucas

No discussion of modern spirituality would be complete without a reference to Star Wars although its really only a pop-culture version of real spirituality.

I generally only refer to the original trilogy because the rest of the franchise didn’t introduce new spiritual concepts, and mostly only corrupted the originally spiritually accurate memes.

The ideas of The Force, redemption, and some of the concepts behind training to be a Jedi are true and can be comforting. Evil has no power and is essentially an illusion so that part can be misleading and fans put too much attention on it. Much of the material is simply archetypal and some of it is even directly borrowed from Joseph Campbell’s work on mythology.

I think it’s important to feel the energy behind these three episodes because I think Lucas was channeling when he wrote them, it’s really clean and inspiring, and perhaps that is the story’s greatest value. Pay particular note to how kindly the main characters treat each other.