The Tom Veitch Files

113. NEW SEQUEL NOTES * "We give the Dark Side its power. We take the position of being at war with the Dark Side. This is exactly what it wants. As long as the Dark Side can keep us in the position (role) of an opponent, it has won. "I know, this seems deep & difficult to understand. But you have to understand it, if you are going to end this [uncertain: millenial?] war. "Don't you see -- it never ends. It just goes on & on. Doesn't that strike you as mysterious? "I'm saying there is a way, a point of view, an attitude,... a place in the heart where you can stand and this war does not exist. "Stand in that place, in your Jedi meditation, and the Dark Side, such as it is, becomes ineffectual." "Caught in the vision of this endless war, we each are made to feel there can be no other possibility until the struggle plays itself out -- either in victory or defeat. "In fact, victory and defeat are not the true resolution of conflict. "Wars not make one great. "What makes one great is to risk everything to find a third Way -- * "MUD PEOPLE" - Strange flesh, crumbly, wet, dark * Molecular Armor - Absorbs laser energy "molecular shields" [margin: Cropped adjacent-page black handwriting, upper edge: [illegible]] [margin: Cropped adjacent-page black handwriting, upper-middle edge: [illegible]] [margin: Cropped adjacent-page black handwriting and red ink, middle edge: [illegible]] [margin: Cropped adjacent-page red ink, lower-middle edge: [illegible]] [margin: Cropped adjacent-page black handwriting, lower edge: [illegible]]