Mortis is the LOST Island of the Star Wars Galaxy. You could make a weird fiction show about a spaceship of people who are brought to Mortis and it would play out a lot like LOST.
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Luke was told in ESB that if he goes to save Han and Leia it will destroy all that they fight for. Han and Leia have a chld named Ben who goes bad and destroys the New Republic and Luke's new Jedi Academy. If he would have stayed to train with Yoda perhaps Han and Leia would have died, but their new government wouldn't have been destroyed.
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I think the midichlorian thing is misunderstood and blown out of proportion. The force doesn't come from the midichlorians, it allows the Force to use us and communicate with us. The Force is a mystical energy source. Let's say it works on a quantum level. Bacteria exist closet to that scale and they are more directly tied to The Force as a result. In an age when the galaxy didn't have multi-celular life, bacteria controlled by the Force wills itself to self-organize into larger scale organisms that are capable of having a larger impact on the galaxy.
Extrapolating this to our own galaxy, I'm curious about the veracity of this idea. Our bacteria in our gut affects our mental state more than previously thought. Use of psychedelic fungus allows us to merge with the "cosmic force" and through meditation a la the Jedi we are able to connect with this same energy field.
Many artist and writers develop their work to the point where they merge with their life philosophies and they become almost like channeled religious tests. The Force as it is explained in the original trilogy is evocative of buddhism, but vague and doesn't really add any new dimensions. The idea of midichlorians /mitochondria being part of the mechanism for life/spiritual energy is a new idea. One that George Lucas has obviously spent a lot of time thinking about.
As referenced in Yoda's vision quest arc in season 6 of the Clone Wars, and Qui Gon's innovations in maintaining his identity after death, and in George's interviews with James Cameron in which he discusses plans for his sequel trilogy to focus on the "microbiotic world"
This would no doubt be reviled by the fanbase, but I for one am interested in where he would go with these ideas and how he planned to make these ideas cinematic. I suspect these ideas would tie in with prophecies and the Whills and Anakin's conception.
George was full of ideas and his plans for the overall saga changed constantly. There are reports via Mark Hamill that at one point he was going to make a trilogy of "ethereal" films more akin to the final segment of 2001.
George did get to dive into some more mythological and psychedelic/mystical material in the Clone Wars in the Mortis arc and Yoda's visionquest arc. I suspect these are from the same notebook of ideas.
references: Force Material episode on The Whills, JD Rinzler books, Gary Kurtz book, etc.
Some thoughts inspired by this: the role of bacteria and fungus in the spiritual process and experience. If our mitochondria are involved in the spirit realm, what happens when we are buried and plants and fungus feed on that material and energy? Do we return to the cosmic force or the living force through that process?
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