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…
When we as Jedi encounter people who believe things that violate all of our principles, it’s easy dehumanize them, turning them from people into monsters in our minds. There is a strong tendency in our species to ‘other’ that which we do not understand, to make assumptions about experiences and…
I was recently reading Destiny Froste’s series of articles on the Jedi Trials, and how they can be useful in our real world community, and it got me thinking: what is the purpose of these trials? Why these trials, why skill, courage, flesh, spirit, and insight? There are a plethora…
