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Thoughts on Charlottesville and Being a Jedi in the Days to Come
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…
Your Words: A More Elegant Weapon
Written by Roz Johnson, reprinted with permission. Originally published on “Strength and Determination” Depending on where you go in the Jedi community, there is much talk of martial arts. If we take the fiction as our starting point, it goes without saying that those we emulate were competent in various forms…
2017 California Gathering Wrap Up
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…
A Jedi Gathering of One
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…
Survival Mode is Not Sustainable
Originally published at JediLiving. There is a difference between handling things and and dealing with things. This is one of the biggest traps for most people, including Jedi. Life can get busy. It can come at us quick. And we can feel we are doing a great job of dealing…
Ahsoka’s Choice: Why People Leave the Jedi Community
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.…