The Value of the Jedi - Love, Attachments, and Amatonormativity

“The essence of our experience is change. Change is incessant... Perpetual fluctuation is the essence of the perceptual universe.”
— Bhante Gunaratan

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Bibliography

Video
• Good Star Wars Videos Playlist:    • Good Star Wars Videos  

• Star Wars webisodes and featurettes provided by mranderson00001:    / @mranderson00001  

• Other archival Star Wars material can be found at LucasLegacy:    / @lucaslegacy  

Books
• Brake, Elizabeth. Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law. United States: Oxford University Press, 2012.

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• Mogahed, Yasmin. Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles. United States: FB Publishing, 2015.

Articles
• Brooks, Dan. "All Films Are Personal": An Oral History of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace. (2019) https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wa...

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Chapters
0:00 - It's about letting go
1:15 - The value of the Jedi
2:34 - Amatonormativity
7:33 - Attachments and compassion
19:44 - The spiritual connections
28:52 - The power of commitment
41:04 - End titles