Star Wars E4: It's Relevance to the Great Awakening Movement (A Deeper Dive) We are using Star Wars as an allegory for our discussion.  These are our opinions and we do not claim to speak for anyone else. All great stories depict a story arc and this includes a character arc.  The characters start in one state and through the events of the story they are transformed into another state. At the beginning of this story: Leia:  She has been in the fight against the Empire since day one.  She knows exactly how evil they are and is desperately trying to stop them.  She wants help as she is unable to defeat them herself.  She specifically travels to Tatooine in order to contact the last remaining Jedi of which she is aware, Obi-Wan. This is her nuclear option. She either stops the Death Star or the Rebellion is crushed. Luke:  He's been a great kid.  He does the right thing. He dreams of leaving the planet to experience life outside of the world he knows.  The Empire is a distant thing to him.  It really has no direct involvement in his day to day activities.  He reluctantly agrees to remain on the farm to assist his Uncle even though he longs for more. Obi-Wan:  He's been keeping an eye on Luke his whole life, while maintaining a reasonable distance to not interfere.  He's getting older and Luke may leave the planet at any time.  He wants to train Luke in the ways of the Jedi and defeat the Empire.  He was around before the Empire, he knows everything there is to know.  He has spent the last 20 years re-center himself and reflecting on how the galaxy ended up this way. Han:  He's a smuggler. He owes a large sum of money that he does not have to a criminal Kingpin (Jabba).  It appears his whole life is one scam to the next.  He doesn't know any decent people and accepts the world is corrupt.  He wants to pay his debt to get the bounty off of him. However, what he really wants is friends, a better life, and love. Vader:  He's the Galaxy's biggest bad guy and he wants to help his puppet master, the Emperor, obtain total dominance.  He wants the Death Star plans to protect that plan.  He's already enraged when we first see him.  This is his biggest downfall.  As much as everyone thinks of Vader as the big scary bad guy, he spends the entire movie basically getting his butt kicked. And here's where we will start to lose people so even if you don't believe us, put on your investigator hat and just pretend for a few minutes that the following is true.  All matter breaks down in to sub-components.  At it's most basic level this breaks down into energy.  Therefore, the entire universe is energy.  We are all made up of the same energy.  Energy causes vibrations at different frequencies.  Your thoughts are also made of energy.  Your thoughts cause vibrations at different frequencies.  Loving thoughts vibrate at a higher frequencies than thoughts of hate.  Consciousness projects into reality causing vibration of matter at an unperceivable level to the human eye.  We will call people who are able to maintain higher frequencies of thought as more energetically coherent.  When two people have competing desires, the person who is more energetically coherent usually wins.  This can be difficult to understand in real world scenarios because one must consider the totality of the life events.  For instance, Person 1 is a good loving person, then a traumatic event occurred to them by Person 2 who is energetically lower, how is Person 2 winning against Person 1?  In view of the totality of life events for both people, perhaps Person 1 uses the experience to help other people and therefore raises the energetic levels of multiple people including themselves.  Person 2 may see the error of their ways and eventually raise their level, or perhaps they are brought to justice preventing others from harm.  It can be very difficult to understand these events as an individual is living them.  So we use a fictional story that is all plotted out as our example. Luke's Uncle sends Luke to go buy some droid slaves.  This is not a nice thing to do. Luke's Uncle is also restricting Luke's free will by keeping him on the farm. He is even warned by his wife that he should let Luke go, but selfishly refuses. Luke treats the droids with respect, cleans them, and removes their restraint collars. Luke observes the message, has no idea who Leia is, but sees a woman in trouble asking for help.  So he helps.  Luke just keeps raising his energy level here. Obi-Wan wants Luke to go him to help Leia, Luke won't go because he is bound to his Uncle.  This a competing desire, the Universe acting as the Judge, Jury, and Executioner in this instance rules. Luke's family is all killed by the Empire.  Luke's Uncle, bought slaves from droid traffickers, he kept Luke on the farm against Luke's wishes (although he did not physically restrain him he did do so mentally), and he was even counseled by his wife to do the right thing and did not.  His wife did not press the issue and is not an innocent party.  Although, audiences will always find themselves feeling worse for her than him.   Luke says there's nothing left for him here. Luke wins his first desire.  Yes it is pretty dark what event freed him, but the universe does not care.  Obi-Wan is not worried for himself in Mos Eisley, he can mind trick most, and worst case he can clear the room with his lightsaber.  He mind tricks the stormtroopers, no blood shed, but in the bar his negotiations fail Obi-Wan strikes once.  He does not kill anyone, but does disarm the situation. Han is confronted by his own internal greed, embodied by Greed-o, yes the alien is named Greedo.  Han realizing that his greed is about to kill him, draws first, and defeats his internal Greed....o  Han then takes passengers, which is not his normal M.O.  As we are seeing, Han is already starting to make a change since he won his internal struggle. Luke learns about the Force, accepts its existence as he is psychologically prepared for a paradigm shift having just lost everything he knows.  Han is not in to the Force.  Han will continue to fight with conventional weapons throughout the story. Han's inability to embrace the Force effectively makes him subordinate to Luke.  Han even tries to compensate for this by continually referring to Luke as kid.  Alderaan is destroyed.  They fly through the energetic wake of the destroyed planet and this changes them all, although they are not aware of it.  Only Obi-Wan, visibly appears to show the effects.  Look at his face carefully. Working together, they free Leia.  Leia is so energetically on point that from a laying position she immediately knows Luke is not a stormtrooper. The group immediately can't work together, end up in a trash compactor, and they are going to die.  We see Han officially taking his role as Luke's protector here, when Luke is dragged under the water.  Han will always succeed when protecting Luke from now on.  Finally, when the group can all focus on the same goal, they project their collective consciousness to the droids and are free. Obi-Wan knows he cannot physically defeat Vader, but he only needs to buy the good guys time.  Luke has accepted the Force, Yoda is alive and can take over training Luke, Obi-Wan has completed his mission.  Vader easily could have stopped the good guys, but gets sucked into his need for vengeance.  Vader is finally going to get his rematch against Obi-Wan.  Blinded by anger and hate, Vader falls into Obi-Wan's trap. The good guys escape.  Obi-Wan even robs Vader of his victory by ascending instead of taking the death blow.  The good guys all see the sacrifice.  This further proves the existence the Force for Luke, and provides the ultimate example of altruism for Han. Rebellion is going after the Death Star.  Han is taking the money he was promised and running.  Luke is disappointed, there are lives to be saved.  Leia completely calls Han out for this. She essentially tells him he needs to be the change he wants to see in the world. The X-Wing pilots can't hit the target.  Vader is in his Tie Fighter taking out good guys. The Rebels are about to be defeated.  After reflecting on the recent events, Han returns and protects Luke. He is successful in hitting Vader's fighter.  The good guys once again all focused on a common goal are ready win.  Luke just needs to fully embrace the Force.  Luke listens to ascended Obi-Wan, does not rely on the flawed machinery, and uses his consciousness to direct the missile to its target.  Good guys win this round. Vader couldn't find the plans, didn't realize Leia is his daughter, nor Luke is his son, nor Obi-Wan is on the planet Tatooine.  He fails to stop the good guys from escaping.  He fails to kill Obi-Wan again and doesn't even understand what happened which is evidenced by him stepping on the robes.  He then fails to protect the Death Star and gets shot out of the final battle of Death Star one.  Vader keeps getting angry and every time he does this he loses. Now how exactly does this relate to the Great Awakening movement?  Well, which character do you see yourself as?  Which character were you in 2008? In 2016? Now? Maybe none of them, maybe one, maybe a combination depending on the situation.  But consider this, every time these characters pursue the Light, love, unity, and acceptance they succeed.  Every time they fight internally against their own demons with anger or hate, or argue with each other in the group they end up in detrimental circumstances.  However, once they learn to work together they can defeat even the strongest of foes.  Even all powerful it seems Vader who can choke people to death at will, can be distracted, lured, trapped, and defeated in battle as long as everyone works together. The Empire is the Cabal.  We are the good guys fulfilling our roles in the galactic plan. If we all work together towards the common goal we WILL win.  Because we will WILL it to be so.   Do you see?  Where We Go 1 We Go All!