So I saw SW7.
To make things more interesting, people tend to exaggerate.
However, they borrow concepts from all over time and cultures.
I am sure we have some main energy type. Maybe electricity
is second, or equal to the main energy. Or maybe electricity
is our main energy. Anyways, if we had too much, we’d burn
like a block of wood. That is why we can’t do lasers and
lightning. The force is another word for it. Best to not have
too much or too little.
i haven’t seen SW7 … the title of the movie was enough for me 
For me … very encouraging … seems the notion of “oneness” will move one tiny step closer to achievement.
Eros … Logos
Yin … Yang
God … Satan
Do the above notions fit into the word “force”
Seems an excess on any one item in the above pairs can lead to what you wrote as “if we had too much, we’d burn
like a block of wood.”
IMHO human consciousness is being … has always been … prepared, conditioned, programmed … for another giant leap forward. Any sudden/abrupt movement forward leads to madness … the worlds’ asylums are full of such cases.
My peasant intellect sees human consciousness as a vast library of patterns … knit together … creating normalcy.
An abrupt shattering of any significant portion of these patterns results in what some people refer to as madness. I agree with Dan and Chakra … madness is not a state of mind a person chooses.
OTH … history in many cultures has countless stories where people have safely navigated beyond the "library of prevailing patterns. How so?
This morning I’m thinking most of them likely prepared, condition themselves for the ‘trip’. Perhaps this is what the notions purgation and catharsis refer to??
Yeah. Balance and harmony seem to be the same things, or interdependent.
There are a lot of grey areas too.
Long ago on TV, I saw a dog that was able to smell cancer, and the location of where the tumor was.
More early than the finest machines of the time.
If we had dog smell senses, we’d do things that seemed impossible to a normal human.
If everything is energy, and energy is knowable, then there must be a sense for all the different forces.
Is that what is often refereed to as “intuition”?
It just occurred to me the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme may speak to this phenomenon.
I don’t remember the exact words … something like …
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty back together again
I learned several years ago that many children’s nursery rhymes have an actual historic event hidden in the shadows so to speak … much like some theories concerning the Grail stories. The one that comes to mind …
Ring around the rosie
Pockets full of posy
Husha husha we all fall down
I was told this nursery rhyme refers to the plague or the black plague
I just Googled the history of the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme … I should have done it before I posted my comments on it.
Oh well!
Seems riddle as a source has captured the majority … with an egg being the answer to the riddle.
Yet … if the egg on the wall was just about to hatch … before falling … a healthy new chick may have walked off.
Hmmm!
This scenario seems to fit my earlier comments …
An abrupt shattering of any significant portion of these patterns results in what some people refer to as madness.
OTH … an egg that had completed it’s incubation process … an individual that had completed his/her purgation/catharsis … would survive the fall … actually … would benefit from the fall.
SW7 is merely a Blacks on Blonds remake of the original SW, the exact same story with PC characters instead…
The typical duality that people project
is good vs evil.
That however is nonsense, hidden within something that appears coherent.
Good does not complete or help evil.
Evil does not complete or help good.
They are polarizations and category.
That’s not for a philosopher that wants the truth.
I think I’ve learned this:
The dark side is passiveness and unconsciousness.
The light side is proactive and conscious.
Either of these can head towards destruction
or growth.
Most of things in our life are not necessary.
Most life is not necessary.
They are wonderful and good, but there isn’t much
demand for life in this reality.
The problem is that we have a bacterial existence.
That might be good for somebody farming it.
But it isn’t really a good life or a meaningful life.
If we were immortal, or at least didn’t have aging,
we’d be a lot different. The earth has a constant
cycle of ignorance. Any experience or wisdom dies
with its host. It goes down with the ship.
Now if philosophers love wisdom, they should
also work against death, because wisdom can only
exist and grow within an extended and safe growth period.
That’s probably why they called the philosopher’s
stone also a cause for immortality.
Immortality used to be something people believed in.
It may have been only legendary but it was at least positive.
Seems our advances in science, technology and philosophy … coupled with the disproving of many tenets of the major religions … has taken all the ‘steam’ out of the “legend of immortality”
BUT … science, philosophy and refuted religions has yet to prove immortality to be false.
Dan … let’s hope your post triggers a ‘pendulum swing’ to the positive side.