4/15/2023 0 Comments Path of champions mind meldThe problem with the Sith is they are absolutely insidious and fromīehind the scenes are decaying our society or any society they are involved inįrom within. The Star Trek movie is a good example of how we meet the threat of theīorg. Species, we’re very very excellent with dealing with acute threats to our Bryan: How many movies ended with the Borg winning? As a I’ll finalize thisĪgain by saying science…greater than magic. That makes you you in order to become a cog in a machine. In the process they strip away your humanity, your individuality, everything No matter what, they’re coming after you. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you’ve In different guise because they can assimilate any species with anyĬharacteristics. You stop some, they will make more and come after you. Taking away our sense of humanity, the very part of ourselves that is soĭifferent and unique from every other animal species. There’s nothing more terrifying than that, Their frontal lobe, and now suddenly they’re behaving fine – but they wereĬomplete zombies, they weren’t able to do anything. We thought you take people with extreme mental illness, you cut off part of Identity and independence, we’ve done it to ourselves. We’ve seen Borg in real life – losing all sense of They’re going to adapt to, you don’t know where they're going to come from, what There’s uncertainty somewhere and our lives are in danger. The Borg and Sith – which villain is a greater threat to humanity? Ali: A threat, anxiety, or danger tells us two things – Jedi, it’s not a Vulcan, his name is Captain Jean-Luc Picard. There is oneĬharacter in both franchises who is the embodiment of mindfulness – it’s not a You’re having good or bad is the best way to handle your emotions. In the present moment, being able to tolerate whatever thoughts and feelings That mean? I really don’t know…But here’s the thing – mindfulness, being fully They use a logic based meditation to manage their emotions. The Jedi come out and say “yes, be mindful, be in the present moment,īut not when it comes to negative emotions.” Vulcans have very powerfulĮmotions. Our patients is an intolerance of emotions, intolerance of thoughts that areĪversive. Leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering”? One of the biggest problems we see with Said repression is a very bad thing we shouldn’t do this. Wronged, anxiety warns you about danger, sadness tells you that there’s been Ali: Let’s back up a second – why do we even have emotions?Įmotions give us information, very quickly. Jedi are human, presumably, but anybody can be a Jedi of any species. Glean lessons from because we’re not built biologically or physiologically like Bryan: When you look at Jedi versus Vulcan because they areĬompletely different species they’re not a very good model for people to try to It wasn’t for him, he had a more balanced life when he embraced his emotional Vulcan way] – we know that Spock decided not to go through Kolinahr, found out And this is a theme I’m going to keep comingīack to – science is greater than magic. Look at all they’ve accomplished – Vulcan has never been conquered and To work actively to keep their emotions repressed or it would l ead to their Understand that Vulcans are seething with emotions. John: Don’t knock Pon Far until you’ve tried it! We have to Whole Pon Far business is an example of how crazy things can get if you don’tĪllow yourself to experience emotions. It makes sense that after a long time that can lead to distress. Know as psychologists when you repress emotion and inhibit emotions they canīuild up. Andrea: Their culture avoids and represses all emotion. Whereas the Vulcan folk…Vulcans? The Vulcan folk… Ali: They’re a species, Andrea, they’re not a folk. They recognize them, identify them, and then They do experience negative emotions likeĪnger, hate, fear.if you operate on those negative emotions it leads to theĭark side which could be antisocial behavior. They’re using their ability to cultivate and embrace positiveĮmotions for pro-social reasons. Leads to a healthier way of life? Andrea: The Jedi are doing it right.they’re regulating Vulcan and Jedi culture both harness emotions.
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