Several days ago I posted a photo of a simple, smooth ring on Facebook. This ring is part of a series of rings that the client can choose an individual engraving to be done by my younger brother who is a master craftsman engraver. I asked fans, out of curiosity, what they would want to be engraved on the ring.
One of the expressions suggested was: “May the force be with you…always” taken from Star Wars, created and produced by George Lucas. This quip entertained me. I watched this series of films for the first time, many years after its launch and recognized the use of myths of different cultures. George Lucas was an amateur car racer when he was young. He was involved in a severe road accident. He read Joseph Campbell’s book ‘The Hero with a Thousand Faces’ that discussed the manner in which the common archetype of myths of heroes bravery and journeys are created by different cultures throughout the human history, while recovering at the hospital. Campbell summarized it this way:
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won. The hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.
Another notion imprinted in the western mindset, following this film series is “the force”, a field of energy that exists in each living thing and anything in the universe. This ‘field’ sustains it. Lucas had probably ‘borrowed’ this idea from the Asian “Chi” or the Tao.
The force is strong with this one (Shoshan)
Each time I had experienced anything beyond the ordinary, I would laugh and call it “the force”.
Once my eldest daughter approached my wife and told her that she’s pregnant and has a baby girl when she was three years old. We didn’t know it at the time and laughed at this thought. However, two weeks later, we found out that my wife was pregnant. We looked at our daughter and we both said, in a choir: “The force is strong with this one”. Of course, this was later reaffirmed that it was a baby girl…
The Dark Matter
Throughout the years I used different symbols of different cultures to describe that mysterious power that sustains the universe and all life within it. This force, which makes 96% of the cosmos, is called Dark Matter by scientists. It is a force that operates according to different physical principles than those we’re familiar with; our physical reality is only a fraction of this vast universe, a force that makes most of this universe. The idea of such a force is described numerous times by the ancestors as the Sun or the monad symbol (the circle with the dot in the middle, representing the source of all life, the spark of life and the consciousness residing in any of us).
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The force is within you
For me it was never “May the force be with you” but rather “The force is within you”. I believe that each of us has this spark inside and the majority of us are unaware.