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good in their lives

would all of a sudden come

across someone that was like me

and my friends at the time,

who were doing bad things.

Why would a deity place

someone in that path?

- They saw somebody and they

went over and beat the kid up.

Apparently, he was supposed

to beat him up too, you know,

to be part of the gang.

- [Opie] So I got arrested

and the judge sentenced me

to serve one year

in Camp Louis Roth,

which is a

correctional fire camp.

I had no idea what

I was getting into.

- He didn't really wanna be

there and he kept trying to say

get me out, get me out,

I'd say I can't, you know,

you've really messed this time,

I can't do anything about this.

So, you're gonna have to

change, it's you this time.

- We start off with confusion,

mistakes, negative karma.

But all of that, there's

not one single mistake

or delusion that cannot

be removed through wisdom.

- Before I went in, I'd seen

the re-release of the trilogies

in the theaters, and that

was kind of sitting on me

that entire time.

And I kinda of felt

like part of training,

you have a brick

in your backpack

and you have to climb

up this mountain,

and you have to do it in

a certain amount of time.

And I just kept thinking

like, it's Yoda on my back,

I'm in Dagobah, feel

the Force, you know,

I was just using that

to kind of push through.

You know what, if

that worked for me,

there's gotta be a

real Jedi out there.

There's gotta be a

Jedi Master out there.

So I went online, I

ran across this site

that presented it in a way

that made it seem viable.

Here's stuff in the fiction,

but they're presenting it as

if they're saying go live it.

And that's when

it kinda first...

Why can't I be a Jedi?

- Jedi is a code, it's

a system of honor,

it's protocols of behavior.

It's a way of

viewing the self, and

the universe, and others.

In what, to me, looks

like very beneficial ways.

- [Opie] This is it, I

found what I'm looking for.

- There is a moment

when it occurs to Luke

that he might become a Jedi,

he might seek that role in life,

he might go into the training

and it's very arduous

and would ask a lot, but

he begins to see that

as a possible option for himself

and to have at least enough

initial faith in himself

that he can see it could happen,

and this is an aha moment,

this is a real turning point.

- Film can expose the values

that we have as a culture.

And how we, as individuals,

also carry forth

our world view all the time.

(dramatic orchestral music)

- Joseph Campbell

worked with symbolism.

He was looking at the

mythic imagination,

how a picture is

worth 1,000 words

and movies are all pictures.

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