One of the things that I've always disliked about the Star Wars franchise is the sanitised, cartoonish way that violence is depicted - little blood, no real signs of physical pain, and very little of the lasting emotional trauma that comes with seeing, receiving or giving cruelty, crippling injuries, or death. None of the stormtroopers shows signs of PTSD or similar problems until the last trilogy.
I've started reading the novelisations, and they do a better job on the emotional side of things - which one would expect, as they aren't trying to fit a story into a roughly two hour framework, and they aren't limited to visual/audio presentation (they can present the thinking of characters, for instance, and directly describe emotional reactions and consequences).
The novels are also better at the things I've always liked about the Star Wars franchise - the struggle for constructive goodness, albeit simplified to a lowest common denominator understanding of "good" vs. "evil", and the concepts of the unity of life, and Qi.
The depiction of one person having energy to influence others is portrayed as being a physical influence, but in reality, outside Hollywood, such influences exist in a nonphysical way. In a "positive" sense, think of Gandhi, Mandela, and John F Kennedy; in a "negative" sense, there is Hitler, Stalin, and bin Laden.
Those influences also exist psychically - which is what much of this blog is about, and thus the need for proper psychic protection (which is also about protecting oneself against energies that are simply not in harmony with oneself) and care for one's nonphysical health, strength, and wellbeing.
(I've touched on this previously - for instance, when describing how one can also be a knight in everyday life.)
The idea that people can exert a constructive nonphysical influence is the intention behind many meditation groups and the like aiming to help create peace - and has, to some extent, been documented by people like Lynne McTaggart. (Amazon).
The problem with most of those groups is what I consider to be spiritual naïveté - wishing for peace does not make it so (any more than hating something makes it go away), and a reluctance to do shadow work - to engage with and transform their "dark side" - limits their willingness and ability to be objective about what needs to be done.
(I haven't provided a link to a definition of shadow work, as I don't have any that I like: tie for an addition to my glossary, methinks.)
In terms of exerting a constructive nonphysical influence to create a peaceful and in all other ways better world, at its very core, I would argue that the following psychic equivalent of the "good" actions with "the Force" portrayed in the Star Wars films needs to be done:
generate constructive positivity (i.e., BPM energy) based on:
and, as mentioned above, engage with and transform one's "dark side" - much as Buddhism did with the demons of Bön when it came to Tibet. Don't proselytise this, or get distracted by what you think others should or shouldn't be doing: if you do, you can guarantee you're failing to do your own shadow work properly.
- reverence for Life as a Principle and as a Unity;
- balanced positivity; and
- spiritual maturity - as shown by the characters at the ends of their story arcs, not the beginning;
Energetically, clear nonBPM units.Having generated the BPM energy, using some of the scenes from the film of energy being projected could be useful to help you visualise sending out and directing the BPM energy to clear nonBPM units.
(I also visualise waves of the three constructive positivities identified above radiating out across the world, much as waves from a atone dropped into pond.)
Hopefully, this gives a little food for thought.
