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Podcast: Be Here Now Network
Episode: Ep. 32 – Star Wars, Yoda & Sufism
Description: Omid Safi discusses how modern myths like Star Wars can connect us to Sufism and the mystery of the universe.
This time on Sufi Heart, Omid Safi has a discussion on:
The story of Moses in the Qur’an
Moses’ teacher, ‘the green one’, and Yoda from Star Wars
How myth-makers revive spiritual traditions
The mythic language found in music and movies
How Daoist, Muslims, Christians, and more see themselves in ‘the force’
Everything as animated and the energy that flows through all things
Recognizing that we are made of the elements and of God
How George Lucas asks beautiful questions in...