“There has been an awakening. Have you felt it?”
~ Snoke, The Force Awakens
The following Star Wars scenes and symbolism are used as pointers pointing to the experience of the true Self in Christ, which is one of Peace, Happiness and Love. As you overlook the common dualities presented in the Star Wars films, there are great aspects that point to the seeming “journey” of awakening that one must go through.
The dualities within the movie represent the Light (Self in Christ) and the dark (valuing the voice of the devil in mind and its self of sin). They are portrayed as both equally real, and, therefore, fight each other to win. However, God transcends duality through the recognition that only the Light of God is all Power and of Reality, and all seeming darkness is but valueless voices to be seen as false or valueless.
Relaxing into the Intuitive Flow
“Something inside me has always been there…but now it’s awake, and I’m afraid. I don’t know what it is, or what to do with it, but I need help.” ~ Rey, The Last Jedi
While the mind seems to value the voice of the devil and his influence, everything seems to appear as fragmented. You seem to experience its doubt thoughts, conflicting emotions and fearful perceptions of the world. This is expressed through the biblical phrase, “For now we see through a glass, darkly.”
It is here one seems to take on the false identification with “the doer,” which always involves the body, actions and a false sense of doing; “I have to be doing something in the world to be worthy, admirable, productive, happy, peaceful” etc. The notion of this doer is a distraction away from the Grace of God.
Through raising one’s value in the voice of the devil and its self of sin to doubt, with the Holy Spirit, one goes from being misidentified with the doer to being inspirationally “done through” by the Holy Spirit. When broken down, the word inspired becomes “in-spirit” or extending one’s true Self in Christ, and is a stepping-stone to the consistent Peace of God.
Symbolised by Rey, where she is shown relaxing into the Living Force, her actions then become fluid and without effort. So, too, are you being guided to relax into the ever-present and natural, intuitive flow of the Holy Spirit, where all actions become inspired and intuitive and are recognised as effortless with a natural, involuntary ease.
Involuntary is the key word here. All action is an involuntary effect from valuing either the Voice of the Holy Spirit or voice of the devil in mind. Just as the Fruits of the Spirit extend from the Holy Spirit, so do the fruits of the devil stem from listening to its voice in mind that speaks against God. Only through the Holy Spirit’s Wisdom and Discernment can it be seen as false and forgotten entirely.
What is of the flesh is flesh, and what is of the Spirit is spirit. At first, there seems to be a dualistic notion of a person relaxing into something the flow, until a recognition occurs that there is, indeed, no person but the Self you are in Spirit relaxing into and resting as Itself.
The Next Steps Are Always Given in the Moment
“Close your eyes, Feel it. The light. it’s always been there. It will guide you.” ~ Maz, The Force Awakens
To watch Rey’s Visions scene from “The Force Awakens”, CLICK HERE!
Awakening to the experience of the Self in Christ entails a going through the seeming darkness to the Light of Christ. It can be a temptation of the devil to believe that you need to stuff down and repress everything that arises in awareness for you. The devil thrives of keeping everything hidden, as “An unconfessed sin only makes one sicker.”
All of this is an attempt to get rid of the seeming darkness that appears to be arising without actually letting it go. All that is really needed is the gentle observation of it, with the Holy Spirit without judgement, as it arises in awareness. When it is contrasted with the Power of God by the Holy Spirit, it is seen as false and valueless, therefore, it dissolves in that instant when value is correctly placed in God.
Your next steps will always be given by the Holy Spirit in the moment. The reason why you are not given a long term plan of your return to God is because, while you value the voice of the devil, it will perceive its own seeming “undoing” as a threat. It will instantly have no interest and pull your attention away from it all together.
This is shown by Rey, where there is a massive resistance (“I’m never touching that thing again, I don’t want any part of this”) to following her destiny or calling, the yearning to know who she truly is.
The voice of the devil, which is the denial of the Peace of God, is always focused on the future plannings and anxieties of past regrets and how things “woulda, coulda, shoulda” been different; this is disguised under the many thoughts and subsequent feelings of: only if I had this, done this differently, if they behaved differently, then I would be happy and peaceful and loving.
As the value in the voice of the enemy is raised to doubt, confusion and disorientation are often experienced as you shift from the thought system of fear to the Voice of the Holy Spirit, Who leads you out of all fear; where everything you thought you knew seems to no longer work, allowing you to open to true humility of recognising that you truly know nothing at all, and need the Help of the Holy Spirit in all areas of your seeming life.
The Holy Spirit will always guide you to the places that are to be travelled to, the people that are to be seen, and the words that are to be said for the purpose of experiencing the Self in Christ. Through this, intuitive guidance, visions, inspirations, feelings, and knowings will be experienced that guide you moment to moment to moment. Just like a GPS, it has no helpful use in telling you what is 5 minutes up the road when you do not need to know it yet.
All situations, properly perceived, become an opportunity for raising your value in the voice of the devil, in mind, to doubt so that, with the Holy Spirit, it can be seen as false or valueless. Only by seeing what is valueless as valueless can you place value in what has all Value, which is God. Through this surrender of self, seeing the complete valuelessness of the voice of the devil, the Self in Christ is fully accepted this very moment. Truly, all things do work together for good for those who love God.
Trusting the Living Force
Jar Jar: where are we going?
Qui-Gon: don’t worry, the Force will guide us.
Watch The Phantom Menace scene here! or the guidance to Anakin scene here!
The fellow Jedi’s, at the time, were all about the current Council rules, codes and traditional uses of looking to the future to see how to overcome the dark side. Yet, Qui-Gon was always pointing to the present moment, to always being mindful of the Living Force that was only alive, present and felt in the moment.
The Living Force that Qui-Gon points to is the Holy Spirit, that is always with you, that guides you in seemingly undoing the value you have in the voice of the devil to eventually accept the Self you are in Christ, as a child of God rather than a sinful child of the world.
This Living Force within is, at first, obscured in awareness by the false thoughts and beliefs of the devil. These thoughts are always focused on an imagined future, where unreal anxieties and concerns seem to arise or on the past for the purpose of perpetuating regrets and guilt. Both of these reinforce the devil’s self of sin, as both are a denial of the present moment, of the Self in Christ that is reborn and renewed in Spirit.
Qui-Gon often stresses the importance of the Living Force to his Padawan, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Stressing the importance to him that being mindful of the Living Force required him to keep his concentration on the present moment, rather than letting anxieties about the future come at the expense of what is here and now.
Another clear example of total trust in the Living Force is demonstrated by Chirrut in Rogue One, where he is a living example of trust and fearlessness, with his reassuring presence always proclaiming nothing is out of order. Being blind, he relies solely upon intuitive prompts and guidance of the Force for every move.
“And I fear nothing, for all is as the Force wills it.“
~ Chirrut Îmwe, Rogue One
Going Beyond Pointers to One’s Self
“Time it is for you to look past a pile of old books. Wisdom they held, but that library contained nothing that the girl does not already possess.” ~ Yoda, The Last Jedi
Watch Yoda’s teaching scene with Luke HERE!
All who are called into the experience of the consistent peace of God, in most cases than not, will have some sort of teaching, process or pathway that is used to help guide you in seeing the lack of the value in the voice of the devil and its self of sin.
While every single one of these teachings, processes or pathways are only ever pointers to the experience of Peace, it can be very easy for the devil to suggest that you latch onto the stepping-stone pointers. Thus, turning these sweet and helpful pointers into a distraction away from the Self in Christ, turning it into idolising people, rituals, traditions and other inauthentic means of delaying your experience of the Fruits of the Spirit.
The experience of what is Eternal and Real cannot be found solely in what is temporal and shall pass away, as the temporal can only point to what is Eternal.
“Still looking to the horizon, never here-now, to the need in front of your nose,” says Yoda to Luke. When the voice of the devil is valued, the present experience of the Peace of God is projected into a future attainment of the world. All seeking, striving, the self-improvement of a sinful self, and the idea of needing to “learn more” of the world to be worthy of God, in terms of past and future, is a distraction away from God’s Grace that is available to you at this very moment. It is through a surrender of self, rather than an improvement of the devil’s sinful self, that the Self in Christ is accepted. Christ is not waiting for you to know more of the world, improve the self of sin, or be worthy in the future to accept His Grace that is available now. Christ simply says, “Be reborn. This moment is your renewal. Be glad that what is of the flesh is flesh and what is of the Spirit is Spirit.”
It is but a complete surrender of self and acceptance of Him, and not some goal attained by some worldly event in the future. All the books and pointers were only ever pointing you to this surrender, only ever correcting a mistake, a misperception, in seeking the Peace of God externally and in the future, where it never is. “Oh, if only I got that parking space would I have been peaceful.” No. Peace comes from God, not from the world. It is a present experience in Him. This Peace is with you throughout every experience of the world. You don’t get the parking spot, you’re in Love, you get the parking spot, you’re still in Love. You are in Him and He is in you, and there is nothing of the world that is of value to pull you out of that peace.
When you experience His Love fully, all the books and words can be laid aside. Now, it is He that guides you, provides for you, gives you the words to bless, uses your smile to bless, and uses your body as an instrument of His Will. Praise be to God. Amen.
In Your Defenselessness your Safety Lies
When you forget about the complete value of the Spirit, it is overlooked and you give reality and complete value to what is temporary and, essentially, valueless when contrasted to God. This is where the false ideas of attack and defence appear to arise. The voice of the devil and its self of sin reign in your experience of life, and everything is experienced as chaotic and stressful. Attack and defence are only possible with what is temporary, between a seeming separate appearance and another seeming separate appearance, as Spirit cannot attack itself being One with Itself.
In the value of the temporary over the eternal, if the body appears sick you think you are sick. If the flesh is temporal and can die you think that you are temporal and fear its seeming death. If the body is attacked you think you are being attacked.
Even though everything that is of the temporary may be attacked, the real attack is the child of Eternal Spirit valuing temporal flesh. It is all a defence against the recognition and experience of the Self in Christ.
What does Spirit have to do to defend Itself but recognise that it is Spirit, in which the idea of attack and defence become meaningless. The Spirit always remains unchanged, unaffected, undisturbed and unharmed by all of the activity arising from the temporal.
Just like how the empty space in a room is always untouched by a desk, a chair, a tango dance or a fight, Spirit is always untouched and unharmed by anything of the temporal that appears within it. Through the Holy Spirit’s Guidance, It will guide you in withdrawing value in what is valueless and placing value in what is always Valuable, being God. In His Discernment, which will show you what is valuable and what is not, ,value is completely withdrawn from the valueless and placed correctly in God. Through this surrender of self you fully accept your Self in Christ, which needs no defence for your treasures now are stored in Heaven.
In your defencelessness your safety lies, for your Safety now lies in Him.
Recognising Self in Christ Beyond self in flesh
“Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.” ~ Yoda
View Luke becoming one with the Force scene HERE!
View Ben Kenobi becoming one with the Force scene HERE!
View Yoda becoming one with the Force scene HERE!
The mind that seems to experience this world under the influence of the devil’s amnesia of God, perceives itself as that: I am limited to this form, this age, this occupation, this name; that I am this and I am that. All the goals offered by the devil are always body or form focused: more money for the body, more comfort for the body, more freedom for the body, more pleasure for the body, all being based in duality trying to get more of the positive and less of the negative.
The analogy above gives you an image pointing to a budding realisation that you are: not essentially the activity appearing within what is temporary.
Through prayer and communion with the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit will reveal to you what is temporary and what is Eternal, what is valueless and what is of all value. Through seeing the illusory as illusory is what seems to open you to the full acceptance of the Self in Christ, that is forever present and beyond the self of the self and beyond all form..
Through this experiential recognition, not based on intellectual understanding which will then try to neglect and deny form, you are without a doubt that God and the Self in Spirit is of all Value.
Being unborn It can never die, being eternal It cannot age, being nameless It does not create separation—as names are used to define one thing from another—and being formless is forever safe and secure as That, Wholeness.
In this Experience, all human qualities of form are ‘transcended’ and you recognise your Self in Him as One with All That Is. This is symbolised by Luke, the separate identity, disappearing and becoming one with the Force—Spirit.
This was demonstrated two thousand years ago by, “I and my Father are one.” The body is laid aside to increase one’s helpfulness, recognising without a doubt that death is impossible. Symbolised in the films, they live on as unmanifested Spirit or Force Ghosts helping guide other Jedi to this recognition also.
One Silent Mind 