melvincarvalho on Nostr: Yes. Star Wars was of course inspired by The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Which, in ...
Yes. Star Wars was of course inspired by The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Which, in turn, was inspired by gnostic ideas, for example you can hear Joseph Campbell lectures on the gnostic Thomas Gospel. This is asian (Brahman / Atman) ideas coming into Europe. Similarly Lucas used "The Force" in the same way. Or if you go back to Finnegans Wake, "scraggy isthmus of Europe minor", which in the original draft was "Merry Isthmus". I guess the West is not so merry, and needs to rediscover its gnostic ideas again. Terrence McKenna also talks a bit about gnostisicm and it's there's probably quite a bit of it left over in the hermetic and alchemical traditions...
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