In 2015, I was knighted in the Jedi Federation. The year leading up to that, I had started a lot of hard conversations in the Jedi community about sexism, about homophobia and transphobia, and about racism. I’d been trying to call folks in, to encourage them to think about the…
In the California Jedi Knighting Standards, the core knowledge is broken down into the five areas of wellness, originally taken from The Jedi Circle. These are Physical Wellness, Emotional Wellness, Intellectual Wellness, Social Wellness, and Spiritual Wellness. Although community is always an advantage, four of the five areas of wellness…
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…
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…
Reposted from Return of a Jedi, the blog of Destiny Froste, with permission. From The Jedi Path by Daniel Wallace: Trial of Insight Reveals a Jedi’s aptitude for distinguishing reality from illusion through deceptive challenges. Can Jedi be deceived? Of course, but only if we ignore the will of the…
Reposted from Return of a Jedi, the blog of Destiny Froste, with permission. From The Jedi Path by Daniel Wallace: Trial of Spirit Tests a Jedi’s ability to vanquish inner battles and emerge unscathed. Outsiders think that the Jedi exist to crusade against enemies–that we are mere counterbalances to the…
