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Some people: META ANALYSIS IS BULLSHIT, RIAN DIDN’T CITE THESE THINGS HE JUST WROTE A SIMPLE STORY OF GOOD V. EVIL UWU

Me, quoting Jung:

He sees the tree of life, whose roots reach into Hell and whose top touches Heaven. He also no longer knows differences: who is right? What is holy? What is genuine? What is good? What is correct? He knows only one difference: the difference between above and below. For he sees that the tree of life grows from below to above, and that it has its crown at the top, clearly differentiated from the roots. To him this is unquestionable. Hence he knows the way to salvation.

To unlearn all distinctions save that concerning direction is part of your salvation. Hence you free yourself of the old curse of the knowledge of good and evil. Because you separated good from evil according to your best appraisal and aspired only to the good and denied the evil that you committed nevertheless and failed to accept, your roots no longer suckled the dark nourishment of the depths and your tree became sick and withered.  (The Red Book, p. 359-360)

Rian Johnson’s damn movie:

“And this is the lesson. That Force does not belong to the Jedi. To say that if the Jedi die the Light dies is vanity. Can you feel that?”

“There’s something else. Beneath the island. A place… a dark place.”

“Balance. Powerful light and powerful darkness.”

“It’s cold. It’s calling me.”

Hereafter, we learn that Rey’s pull to the Dark is not inherently bad [she learns the truth of her family, and learns that she can find belonging through Ben by delving into the darkness], and it is Luke’s folly for not acknowledging that this is a part of Rey’s growth and development. That to see with eyes unclouded from the distinction of “good” vs. “evil,” and rather to look between “above” and “below” is the ideal. The cosmos does not distinguish between “good” and “evil”. That distinction is not useful because of its inherently subjective nature. To deny the darkness that nourishes the roots of understanding the cosmos is to deny the tree its life, and thus it will become withered and hollow – just as the uneti tree in The Last Jedi has become, because the Jedi did not nourish the tree by acknowledging the darkness which should have nourished it – the darkness forbidden, lying dormant, and calling, crying out from deep underneath.