{"id":5214,"date":"2005-04-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/04\/22\/2005-04-22-author-researching-hindu-star-wars-connections-requests-information\/"},"modified":"2005-04-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-22T12:00:00","slug":"2005-04-22-author-researching-hindu-star-wars-connections-requests-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/04\/22\/2005-04-22-author-researching-hindu-star-wars-connections-requests-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Researching Hindu-Star Wars Connections Requests Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"mailto:rosen108@mac.com\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>USA, April 20, 2005: Steven Rosen writes:<BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Greetings! I am an author with 20 published books to my credit, mainly on Eastern philosophy. I have recently completed a manuscript entitled &#8216;The Jedi in the Lotus: Seeing Star Wars Through a Hindu Lens.&#8217; As the title suggests, the book surveys all of the many parallels and overlaps between Lucas&#8217;s epic series and the Hindu tradition. I have explored the Campbell connection at length and I believe I have mined the depths of most other correlations between Jedi lore and the ancient religion. My request is this: I have for many years heard that Lucas himself admitted that the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and other Indian myths heavily influenced his initial creation of the Star Wars series. I need to know if there is indeed a statement out there to this effect. Please, if you do not yourself know, send out feelers for me and have people reply directly to &#8216;source&#8217; above.&#8221;<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceUSA, April 20, 2005: Steven Rosen writes: &#8220;Greetings! I am an author with 20 published books to my credit, mainly,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}