How can we explain the ongoing mass appeal of Star Wars? Of course they are great action films, and of course the sci-fi elements of aliens, lightsabers and intergalactic travel spark our imagination. But what really distinguishes Star Wars from its rivals are its mythical themes. We have the perennial fight between good and evil, the saga of the David versus Goliath fight between the plucky rebels and the powerful evil empire. And most unusually for a sci-fi action film we have a prominent role for religion. Indeed, if our official records are to be believed, the mystical religion of the Jedi has moved from myth to reality: 390,127 people in England and Wales declared their religion to be Jedi in the 2001 National Census, making the Jedi religion the fourth largest reported religion (in 2011 it slipped down to seventh place, but of course that was before the latest series of Star Wars films, so who knows what we will find in 2021).
Could the Force Really Be With Us?
Why materialists are wrong and the Jedi right.
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sk si 6 June 2021
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SP Viljoen 17 August 2019
Max Planck said: 'Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because,in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.'
However, to invent a new religion to try and achieve an outside view is, in my view, unnecessary.
The Bible tells us what we need to know about creation and the Creator.
Adam A. 24 March 2018
Here is some of the evidence I have collected on the force of mind. There is a practice in Taoism known as external medical chi kung, where intention is used to project chi energy out the hands to be able to heal. All of the below studies demonstrate the healing ability of this energy on in vitro cells in test tubes, in order to eliminate any chance that the results are a product of a placebo.
http://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/276560
http://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/343354
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3567610/pdf/nihms436810.pdf
http://deanradin.com/evidence/Jonas2003RNG.pdf
The first 2 studies were done by Harvard Medical School's Dana Farber Cancer Research Institute that were published by Karger, which is a 125 year old peer reviewed medical journal. It demonstrates that external medical qigong can kill in vitro cancer cells, while protecting normal healthy cells. The dana farber cancer institution is the largest most comprehensive cancer research center in the entire world.
The third study was published by the National Institute of Health Journal which is a peer reviewed government publication, some of the experiments for this study were done at MIT.
The fourth study was done by Princeton and was replicated at several other universities, the results were produced on a random event generator.
The last study was done by the US Military at Walter Reed Research Institute, and it was published by Springer Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry.
"Long-term clinical observations and progress from ongoing studies have shown that the cancer patients received significant benefit from the exposure to the external Qi of Yan Xin Qigong (YXQ) originated from traditional Chinese medicine. In some typical cases, patients with clinically diagnosed aggressive and recurrent tumors have been surviving for >10-20 years after the treatment by the external Qi of YXQ. Furthermore, the external Qi of YXQ helps patients improve or avoid side effects associated with conventional radio- and chemotherapy."
- American Association for Cancer Research Journal
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