Foreword
Epigraph
Part One: The Edifice
Star Wars as an Edifice of Intent
What Star Wars are and what they are not
Edifices of Intent – what are they?
The Outer Garment
The Star Wars Phenomenon
High concept films
Star Wars as high concept
The box office
Young audiences of today
The sixteen year gap
Conceptualism
The effect of Star Wars on the world
The boundary of a work of art
The boundary of Star Wars
George Lucas – a resume
The Structure
The definition and the function of myth
Joseph Campbell
A short biography
Campbell’s theory of myth
Natural history of gods
Two strains of myth: the hunters and the planters
The question of the person
Five modes of mythical consciousness
The Way of the Animal
The Way of the Plant
The Way of the Stars
The Way of Destiny
The switch of focus
The Great Reversal
The Way of Man
The European mindset
Facing the boundary
Freedom of will – answerability
Freedom of will – responsibility
Human form as interface with the Mystery
The individual as the new mythogeneric ground
The Monomyth
The Hero’s journey
Departure
The call to adventure
Supernatural aid
The crossing of the first threshold
Lost to the world
Initiation
The road of trials
The meeting with the Goddess
Atonement with Father
Apotheosis and the ultimate boon
Return
The magic flight
The crossing of the return threshold
Master of the two worlds
Nobodaddy or Rintrah?
“Follow your bliss”
Mythmaking
Degrees of separation
The cat
Perception as collaptor
The question of the referent
Mythmaking is possible
Renewing Myth
Scolarly Theurgy
The significance of introducing Qabalah into Europe
The trail of Enoch
Dr John Dee
Corpus Hermeticum
The Rosicrucians
The Freemasons
Golden and Rosy Cross
Count of St Germain
Cagliostro
Eliphas Lévi
Theosophy
Gnosis
Eriugena
Free furlough
Jakob Böhme
J Krishnamurti
The Golden Dawn
Aleister Crowley
The threads
Masters of immediacy
Appearance of form
Appearance of myth
Arrest
Agreement
Communication
Recording
Art
Magical, religious and subjective art
Nagualism.Toltecs
Assemblage point
Magical art (objective art)
Religious art (didactic art)
Subjective art
A walk in the woods < We are here now!
Storytelling
The Immortal Story
Scenes from the Life of Marionettes
Tragedy
Formal influences
Youthful passions of George Lucas
Far east – the rebound
Kurosawa
Manga & anime
Work in progress
Retcon
Polyphonic structure
The Substance
Magic traditions
Castaneda
The Qabalah
Christianity
Arthurian Cycle
India
The Far East
Part Two: Tragic Engagement
Fate and destiny
Princess on a Pea
To be developed further later…!