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🗞️ Star Wars

Star Wars’ mysticism borrows heavily from Taoism philosophy and concepts.

The Force with its dark/light side comes from the concept of duality in the Tao. The light and dark balance each other.

This yin and yang inspires the ideas:

• Darth Vader has the seeds of goodness inside of him
• When a powerful good rises, a powerful evil necessarily does as well
  • Anakin (Darth Vader) has a son just as powerful as himself. Luke’s light is indivisible from Anakin’s darkness.
• The seeds of each other’s opposite lives within each of them.
  • Anakin finds redemption at the end of Return of the Jedi.
  • Luke succumbs to his darkness in The Last Jedi.
• Rey rises out of nowhere to match the darkness that arose in Kylo Ren.
• “There are always two: a master and an apprentice”

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