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Star Wars and the Yin/Yang Duality

Many of you will remember when Star Wars (1977) came out. It’s one of my favorite movies. The movie opened up to many of us a new world in a “galaxy far, far away”… and a new worldview in pantheism. While there are a few ideas copied from non-pantheistic traditions including Christianity— like the greeting “May the Force be with you” which is very similar to the Christian greeting “May the Lord be with you”— for the most part Star Wars portrays a pantheistic worldview. Today, the worldview of pantheism can be seen in much of our society, but when Star Wars debuted, it was still a relatively unknown and foreign concept…

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Crouching Restraint, Hidden Passion

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Poster

One movie which offered up somewhat of a critical evaluation of Eastern mysticism and the Daoist Way is the martial-arts fantasy epic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) starring Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh. This film was directed by Tiawanese-born Ang Lee, filmed on location in China, based on a 1930s Chinese series of wuxia (martial hero genre) novels, and filled with an all-Asian cast. Movies with such credentials are usually unsuccessful in America, especially when they have subtitles or dubbing. But paradoxically, in America it became the highest-grossing foreign-language film in history.

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