What Does It Mean? To Love Epic Fantasy?

What does it mean to feel deeply connected to these stories? What does it say about you as a person? Not to like the violence or the world-building, but to know that God lives in these stories. The Epic Fantasies we know best are rooted in Abrahamic folklore. In the basic concept that Good triumphs over Evil not because we are more powerful, but because we are guided and connected by a force more sustainable than hatred.

It means that you are spiritually awake. For me, as I sit in my home braving the Nor'easter passing over NYC, it means you're sobbing watching the Star Wars sequels because you know you're part of some sort of Force Dyad with someone who chose the Dark Side.

Brittyn called me today laden with guilt. Guilt is a lost emotion outside for the Collective. It has been replaced with apathy and unaccountability. Guilt is a blessing because it means that you can still hear God. I pity those that don't feel it because I'm forced to accept that they have either gone too far from God to hear him or that he has given up on them. There's much hatred for the Star Wars sequels, but I watched them again with more developed eyes, ears, and heart this weekend and sobbed the whole way through. In 2019, when the The Rise of Skywalker was released, we were sort of living in the era of the first trilogy. Now we live in the era of the sequels. Exhausted from earlier battles and facing the same evil reincarnated. In these Epic Fantasies, there's always a clear use for those of us with ears at the lips of the divine. That is not true of the real world. My peers and I are a few bad sleeps away from a padded room. We are all in different stages of awakening and have no clear ways of reaching true enlightenment. Yet, we all keep finding each other. Somehow. I suppose really, this is my written request to the Divine. I am begging you to guide us to the next phase.