Star wars Introduction Lecture
In this lecture we will be introducing you to the hero’s journey through the media of film. These tales have come down from our ancient ancestors and their dreams that have led in time to oral traditions around campfires, to traveling minstrels, the written form, and finally to film. These stories have adapted and changed to fit the audience of the modern listener, but the core components have never. They are just dressed up, but the many layers of these teaching stories still guide our youth through the wasteland of adolescence to adulthood where they will meet their true self. For some what should of started at the onset of puberty has not finished or even started yet. Great importance was given to the coming of age of men into society. High elaborate ceremonies were enacted upon to create a psychological break from childhood and the world of the protective mother. From one matrix to another, a child is suppose to be raised to be prepared for this moment. If not the youth must be re-taught each matrix until he is ready for the hero’s journey. The matrixes of today and the coming of age rituals are broken today, this lecture is a return to the days of old. Movies teach more than style, the way to hold your Glock, and humorous lines to be told back to one and another. They still teach, but we have lost the way to interpret them. But in our movies we will discuss the hero’s journey and the way we can learn from them..
Now what is the hero’s Journey steps. We have the call, denial of the call, initiation, the threshold, the wasteland journey, facing the evil within, choice between temptress or loving mate, confronting the father, letting go, achieving the goal climax, and the return. How does this relate to our youths. Youths get a call to be responsible and get a job, they deny this and screw around, they finally get their first job, they date some nightmare women and hopefully find someone lovable, they leave home and confront their parents with his own wishes for his life and up keep, he gets married and lands well paying job he enjoys and is good at, and he in time provides for his parents in his old age. This is one person's journey, simplified.
In using the Star Wars movies I have chosen scenes that illustrates these steps. Luke scans the horizon on Tattoonie and sees escape probe landing illustrates the call. The youth Skywalker faces Darth Vader in a cave to lop his head off to find his own evil side behind the mask. Luke finds out that his arch villain is his controlling Father. Then he gives up all to a higher power and uses the force to destroy the Death Star, his goal. Finally to return to share the triumph with his friends.
In this lecture youths will learn to interpret movies and literature to guide their lives, find where they might have to analyze their own lives, find positive role models, find a calling, accept their faults without shame or guilt, justify their own decisions, face their father and society, letting go to a higher power. So in time they will be able to bring their own justice, redemption, forgiveness, and change outside the system as adults yearning and achieving their true self as adults.
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