You might have seen recently that we had a few people publicly announce that they were pursuing knighthood in California Jedi, and I wanted to talk a bit about why we do that in this community. Announcing Knighthood as a personal goal does three things: Firstly, it makes that goal…
While California Jedi was up in the mountains with little signal or internet access focusing on our training, a woman died in Charlottesville. She is hardly the first person to be grievously harmed by white supremacy, nor, I fear, will she be the last in the weeks to come. Jedi…
The 2017 California Gathering was this past weekend (August 10th-13th), and it was a roaring success. Up in the mountains near Santa Barbara, nine California Jedi, one Utah Jedi, and three Jedi-adjacent friends and supporters met to train, discuss the path, and make friends. We held workshops on non-attachment, emotional…
The California Jedi Gathering begins tomorrow, with twelve Jedi (and Jedi friends) trekking into the Mountains for a weekend of fellowship and training. The Maryland Gathering begins the week after. For these Jedi, their coming weekends will be spent with friends who understand and support their path, and we will…
Ahsoka Tano is a newly beloved character in the Star Wars fandom, someone I (and many others) look up to as a guide and clue to Jedi behavior. But Ahsoka never becomes a Jedi Knight; in fact, she refuses the knighthood offered to her and leaves the Jedi Order altogether.…
I was having a conversation with some lovely Jedi last month, and I’ve been thinking on something Alex Bird said about the Jedi code, and the way we analyze it. He stated that we almost always demonize the first part of each line, making those traits something to erase or…
