Looking at star wars through spiritual lenses. In this documentary I discuss how books by Carlos Castaneda influenced George Lucas. I outline the similarities between books and the movies. While also discussing other spiritual,religious and mythological sources that inspired Lucas to make star wars the way that it is.
Cosmic force, the force and the living force are all found in books of Castaneda, though through different terminology. While shamans of Mexico are quite similar to Jedi and their way of living.
I’ve been working on this project for almost 2 years, I dedicate this documentary with love to the star wars community and with deepest respect to George Lucas.
May the force be with you, always!
I wanna thank amazing GAXELLE for providing excellent narration without whom this documentary would not be as beautiful as it is!
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I also want to thank two great artists who gave me a permission to use their wonderful artwork:
Charles Frizzell https://www.frizzellstudios.com
Nicolás Rosenfeld https://www.fineartmasterprinter.com/rosenfeldtown
TIME STAMPS:
00:00 Introduction
04:51 Who was Carlos Castaneda/Shaman terminology
09:29 Ancient Seers
15:01 The Art of Stalking
21:06 The New Seers
28:06 The Spirit/Infinity - The Will of the Force
31:44 Inner Silence
35:45 Qui Gon as the perfect Warrior
42:44 Young Kenobi
47:40 Portrayal of the Force
53:36 Force in Balance
1:04:30 Jedi Order
1:11:48 The Man of Sin
1:14:04 Path to Immortality
1:22:05 Conflict Within
1:44:31 Anakin Skywalker
1:54:25 Heart vs Mind
1:59:06 Power of Love
Some of the source material used for a research:
Carlos Castaneda
The Teachings of Don Juan (1968)
A Separate Reality (1971)
Journey to Ixtlan (1972)
Tales of Power (1974)
Second Ring of Power (1977)
Eagle's Gift (1981)
Fire from Within (1984)
The Power of Silence (1987)
The Art of Dreaming (1993)
Magical Passes (1997)
The Wheel of Time (1998)
The Active Side of Infinity (1999)
Taisha Abelar
The Sorcerer's Crossing: A Woman’s Journey
Florinda Donner
Shabono
The Witch's Dream
Being-in-Dreaming
Joseph Campbell
The hero with a thousand faces
Garry Jenkins
Empire Building
A New Hope
1 - Journal of the Whills - Early 1973
2 -Story Synopsis (second version) - May 1973
3 - Rough Draft - May 1974
4 - First Draft - July 1974
5 - Second Draft - 28 January 1975
6 - Third Draft - 1 August 1975 -
Revised Fourth Draft - March 15 1976
Empire Strikes back
First Draft (Brackett) - 17 February 1978
Fourth Draft (Kasdan) - 24 October 1978
Fifth Draft (Kasdan)- 20 February 1979
RETURN OF THE JEDI:
Revised Rough Draft - 12 June 1981
THE PHANTOM MENACE: 1 - Revised Third Draft - 6 June 1997
ATTACK OF THE CLONES:
1 - Revised Second Draft - 4 July 2000
2 - Revised Third Draft - 5 September 2000
REVENGE OF THE SITH:
1 - Fourth Draft - June 2003
Richard Holloway
A Little History of Religion
Edith Hamilton
Greek Mythology
Bible
Bhagavad Gita
And a large amount of different other religious/spiritual texts,books and documentaries around this subject, which is hard for me to credit everything in here.
Another research done on this subject:
https://www.angelfire.com/electronic/awakening101/force.html
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