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Anakin and Nature
Anakin is the powerful forces of nature. This is Anakin/Vader doing the Dance of Shiva, the creator, sustainer, and destroyer of nature. Anakin is the powerful hurricane and tornado that destroys all in its path; but after the damage comes new life. This is the cycles of nature. Anakin is the hurricane, the tornado, the earthquake and the volcanic eruption. Anakin/Vader is the god and guardian of the nature spirits. Anakin is powerful, brave and strong, like the cougar defending her cubs. He is the god of tribal peoples, like the American Indians who believed you learn about life by watching the animals. Animals also are totems. Nature has totems too.

Anakin is the wisdom of nature. Sometimes in nature you stand and fight. Sometimes flight is wiser. It is all part of nature to try to preserve your life. No predator or prey animal sees this as cowardice just good common sense (horse sense as you will). The wisdom of nature is very different than the haughtiness of man. In nature you fight when it is necessary, or you run if that is necessary. In nature the animal who runs today is not embarrassed for running tomorrow. Fear, anger, aggression, love, sex, pleasure, happiness and sadness are all acceptable emotions in nature. No animal suppresses a single one.

Anakin is more part of the shaman world of the American Indian. Anakin is the wisdom of the Indian who sees a turkey vulture land near him and tries to learn what vulture is saying to him. The Indian looks around and feels what nature is trying to tell him. Does crow (Awaw,Awaw) warn him of coming danger? What are the clouds saying? Black panther greets the Indian; what is he saying? This is the way tribal people paid attention to their environment. The tribal peoples also were far smarter than the people of today because the tribal people knew to respect and honor nature. They did not destroy the lands they lived on. They also tried to give back to nature what the tribe has taken.

Anakin is the wisdom of nature and the tribal person. Obi-Wan is the white cowboy of western expansion. Obi-Wan, like the cowboy wants to "civilize" the Indian (Anakin). Modern man is like the cowboy with one addition: modern man is more like a machine of gears and metal having no love or compassion for any one. They, like Obi-Wan, see themselves as always right when they do not see themselves as they really are haughty, self righteous, bigots who destroy all in their wake. Anakin loses the lightsaber fight, the same as nature is losing to modern man in pollution, loss of forests, loss of wet lands and so on. At this rate our planet will soon be as desolate as Mars. We all lose this lightsaber fight with Anakin.

When Anakin becomes Vader, it is like the American Indian delivering a curse in defense of nature or if you hurt any one in the tribe. These American Indian curses can last for years. Just look at how long this one curse lasted. An American Indian in response to the Trail of Tears did a curse on every president who gets elected on a year ending in "0". This curse has lasted since this Indian started it until Ronald Wilson Reagan ended it by not dying in 1981.

An example of Anakin's attitude when he becomes Vader is expressed in bobcat totem as well. " The bobcat can see very well in the dark, and its hearing is acute. Often times bobcat people choose to be solitary because they hear, see, and feel so much hidden garbage about people around them that they begin to believe all humans are like this." (book ANIMAL SPEAK by Ted Andrews). It is obvious that Vader believes all humans are garbage because by Episode VI he chokes people very quickly, tolerating no mistakes. Vader spends much time in his meditation chamber, preferring to be alone when ever possible, only coming out to run things on the command ship. In Episode III when Anakin becomes Vader but before the helmet, Vader gets the yellow eyes. When Vader gets the yellow eyes, he looks like an owl; which is interesting since the eyes of the owl represent the little light that lives in the dark of night. Neither Maul or Palpatine have the owl look when their eyes change, an intersting subtlety.

The reason Anakin had trouble in the foundry scene is the same reason a black panther would have trouble there. A black panther is a powerful predator with vast knowledge in the thickets. But in man's world the black panther is out of place. This does not lessen the panther's abilities. In the stadium scene Anakin does better because the Reek is an animal, a living being to communicate with. Anakin uses his shaman abilities to talk to the Reek. Machines you can not talk to or communicate with. They just run programs.

Man is not the wisest mammal in the world. After all, it is man who is destroying our planet, not any other animal. Planet earth is 4.5 billion years old. It has been 15 billion years since "the big bang" according to Carl Sagan in the Cosmos series, 4 billion years to be snuffed out by 200 years of recklessness and human greed. Since the industrial revolution, we have ravaged the earth. We even doubled our efforts of destruction in the last 25 years. Humans brag of how we have evolved and laugh at tribal peoples like American Indians, the Aborigines of Australia, and earlier forms of man such as the Neanderthals; but in all cases scientists have proven these tribal peoples and earlier forms have shown compassion to their fellows. They have helped the weaker elements to survive. They even had primitive forms of communism without Karl Marx to tell them. Even the prairie dog, the wolf and some species of birds operate communally sharing the kill and other things necessary for survival. Primitive man even had universal health care of their day while our fundamentalist Obi-Wan modern man treats each other like dirt. Like insects, modern man is cold, ruthless, kills the weak, scoffs and says they are "pathetic life forms" unworthy of life. This is called progress. Only the insect who works round the clock and asks little in return is desired.

Anakin as nature also includes the energies of Kundalini. The Kundalini is highly charged sexual energy and is associated with the god Shiva. This energy includes all the strong emotions like love, hate or anger, fear, sadness, joy, ecstasy, pleasure and sex. The sexual energies keeps the earth and all its creatures going. It is the animation principle; with out it, there is stagnation and death. This energy gives you energy to get up in the morning, to create,do projects, even to have a job. In todays Burka society of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the sex energy is being systematically snuffed out. The results is children getting old age ailments like high blood pressure, heart attacks, and no desire to play, run and jump leading to obesity. The Obi-Wan Christian fanatics have gone too far. All is dying. This is only one facet of sex, the gaseous energy side. Nature taps into this energy to create and sustain itself all the time.

Then of course there is the physical side of sex which is important also. When guy meets girl and falls in love, this gives much pleasure to both. It is a reason to get up in the morning. If you have a lover who really loves you in all ways of expressing itself, and one of them is sex. Of course it is assumed you are a legal adult of 18 years of age.