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The Keeper 2018 The Doctrine of the Temple of the Jedi Order The 33 Jedi teachings created by the founders of Jedi Sanctuary touched not just the hearts of it’s members, but those seeking to achieve higher goals. Temple of the Jedi Order sought to create an order that allowed it’s membership to become ordained and perform legal marriages (Among other things) without the piggybacking of baseless organizations like the United Life Church (ULC) where all it took was a bit of money and Q&A. Instead Jedi would be put through a training system in order to achieve these goals. Reaching out to Jedi Sanctuary. Temple of the Jedi Order asked Jedi Sanctuary permission to use some of their Teachings in their own Doctrine. And after some refining, re-wording and restructuring they developed the temple’s 16 Teachings. Later, the Jediism.org 21 Maxims was added to the temple Doctrines along with other various additions to create the whole of what they uphold to today. Journal Entry ...

The Keeper 2018 33 Jedi Teachings A couple years after jediism.org. A new group branched out with there own perspective. Wanting to stick close to the teachings found in the Fictional Star Wars universe. The founders reviewed and studied the scripts, movies and books to carefully extract key lessons applicable to the real world while maintaining it's fictional foundation. These Teachings started out small, with only 16 teachings. Which then grew to 18 teachings and finally to 33 overall teaching points of Jedi. This group was known as Jedi Sanctuary in 2003 and in 2006 these teachings were published for public view and use. Even becoming published at the www.about.com informational website. Today Jedi Sanctuary is only active on the facebook social media platform. Journal Entry Find ten or so teachings that calls to you and write your thoughts about them. Try and find one's that have not yet been touched up on in the previous Key Stone's lessons! Bonus! W...

The Keeper 2018 The 21 Maxim’s In the late 1990's and early year 2000 the Jedi Community had been experiencing a series of troubles: With the media who had taken a negative interest in the Communities formation and with each other as viewpoints and opinions clashed. What was a Jedi meant to be? How do we apply a fictional figurehead into a very real world circumstance? How do we avoid copy write and being sued for loving the lessons and philosophies of Star Wars? Are we more like warriors or Buddhist monks? Do we regulate strict standards or leave it open ended? So many questions and so very many answers that did not quite match up. It didn't help that the pressure building up from these troubles would cause group after group to rise....and fall. How many times would the Jedi be recreated and torn down before we were able to understand not only what Jedi were meant to be.....but what we, ourselves, were meant to be. Tired of all the politics and never ending drama - So...

The Keeper 2008 Community Doctrine Beginnings While much of the other sources used in the making of Star Wars are mentioned in passings and various interviews with George Lucas. They are not discussed with as much depth and merit as the aforementioned Hero's Journey . The Jediism/Realism community was left to put the pieces together on their own.  Taking the parts they aligned most with while leaving the rest to their respective practices. Some drew from other fictional sources. The Matrix for example provided many great conversations and discussions due to it's heavy influence on the questioning of the world's inner structures. Another great example would be King Arthur and his Knights of the round table. Which has inspired more than just Jedi with his vow of Valor, Integrity and perfect leadership.  Other members of the Community looked to real world source materials like the "Tao Te Ching" - "The Art of War" or the author "Alan Watt...

The Keeper 2008 The Hero's Journey While the fictional Star Wars universe had proven both facinating and inspiring. It was the mastermind's and influances that were used in the Star Wars creation that had ultimatly captured the Jediism/Realism Community most. Philosophiers, Religious practices, historic figures, people and beliefs of this earth all taken, reviewed and brought into a new reality that so many were able to relate to without the ties from which they came from. One such Mastermind that George Lucas drew from the most was a Philosopher named Joseph Campbell and his book "The Hero With a Thousand Faces" published in 1949 which look's into the archetypal hero and mythologies of our own world history. Joseph Campbell delved into a theory that the world myth's and stories of hero's all had a similar fundamental structure regardless of time and culture. He called this the Monomyth and it became an integral part of the creation of many novel...

The Keeper 2008 The Three Pillars (And the Jedi Path book) Out of all of the Fictional codes, behaviors and beliefs. The Three Pillars is probably the least used within the Jediism/Realism community. At least, the least used as it is presented in “The Jedi Path” book by Daniel Wallace and Paul Allan Ballard published in 2010. Largely due to the fact that the Jediism/Realims community by now had already settled into a non fictional direction. Creating their own Key Stone’s with there own words and the words of there memberships which included the tenets provided in the Three Pillars, but expanded in lengthier doctrines. The Pillars as found within the Jedi Path are viewed as such: Force, Knowledge & Self Discipline The strength of the Jedi Code and organization of the Order rested on the three core tenets of Force, Knowledge, and Self-Discipline. Built into a Jedi's everyday life, the Coruscant Jedi Temple main entrance statuary was illustrative of the three pillars....

The Keeper 2018 The Luke Skywalker Code Alongside The Jedi Code, there was another...an alternate version. But most know it as the 'Luke Skywalker Code' this is because, during the re-establishing of the Jedi Order he modified it slightly as it is told. But overall...that is all we know when it comes to the fiction beyond a couple references. [ Pending possible addition to this section ] Much like the Jedi Behaviors it wasn't very popular either in fiction or in the Jediism/realism community. But it did have its various moments in the spotlight as a handful of community members found a greater alignment with the Luke Skywaler Code over The Jedi Code in general. The Luke Skywalker Code offered less requirement of sacrifice such as "No Emotion" and "No Passion" and instead celebrated the spirit of service to others, protection of those who could not protect themselves and training the self in knowledge and wisdom. Key beloved traits of Jedi that a...

The Keeper 2018 Jedi Behaviors A fair warning!! This post will be a bit lengthy due to the nature of the topic: The Jedi Behaviors. Which consist of about 24 Key Stone's .   While not as popular, studied, or practiced as The Jedi Code . The Power of the Jedi Sourcebook also provided the “Jedi Behaviors” which consisted of a series of fictional tenets that Jedi of the Jedi Order were expected to follow. Unfortunately they didn’t really catch on in either the fictional world or that of Jediism/realism. For the Jedi Community it was largely due to the heavy fictional references found in the Behaviors themselves, referencing fictional masters and places which was something the Jedi Community has been struggling to distance themselves from for years. Even so, you might find some here and there in the membership that still remember these Behaviors an use them in their coursework from time to time. A favorite Behavior was Honor The Jedi Order, as it commonly applied th...

The Keeper 2008 The Jedi Code As mentioned in our entry “Fiction to Belief” the Star War’s universe produced three Role Playing Guide book’s the first in 1987 " Star Wars D6 RPG Core Rulebook 1E " and the two more developed 2002 called “ Star Wars RPG Core Rule Book ” and “ Power of the Jedi Sourcebook ” These two particular books presented several key stones that not only gave the fictional Jedi a sense of depth and purpose. But allowed others to take these codes and behaviors and develop a working relationship between the fictional world, and real life beliefs. In the years to follow the sourcebook’s release the Jediism/Realism community has taken ahold of The Jedi Code and The Jedi Behaviors found within the RPG Book and used them as a source of study, teaching, practice and self development. Some Jedi groups were known to of adopt “The Jedi Code” as part of their own code of conduct while teachers of the community would often use “The Jedi Code” as a base starti...