The Jedi Way

The Keeper 2018
The Jedi Way

Another Extended Document was compiled by Brandel Valico who took the many star wars resources from novels, movies, games and RPG guidebooks as well as bits of wisdom throughout the Jedi Community and placed it all insie "The Jedi Way" a 77 page long document of Jedi Teachings and wisdom.

While it is noted in the documents disclaimer that most if not all the content within are not written by the one who compiled this information, it is not listed which parts belong where as the sources are missing.

I am able to spot some of the sources such as the“ Star Wars RPG Core Rule Book” and “Power of the Jedi Sourcebook”  as well as the traditional "Calming Breath" presented by Kharis Nightflyer of the Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4 however...some escape my memory (I will list them as I find them. If you spot a section you recognize from somewhere else, please comment with name, page location & source link!)

While the book covers common studies such as the Jedi Code and Behaviors. There is also quite a large section based on meditation, qi gong, exercise and internal applications as well as the "Jedi's Sphere of Responsibility" Taking the student on a process of imagery meditation and organizing their priorities.


Journal Entry

• Read and study The Jedi's Sphere of Responsibility" and write your thoughts on it's practice
• Give it a try for three days and write about your experience
• Bonus! Read The Jedi Way and write your thoughts in your Journal. It can be found in Just Jedi's Spirit & Belief Datacrons . Direct location access linked here

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The Sphere of Responsiblity 

The Sphere of Responsiblity is one of the Jedi's most crucial abilities and one of his most crucial concepts to be understood.

The Sphere shows a Jedi what all he is entrusted with by the Force. Some Jedi have asked exactly how far their responsibility

goes to give aid. You see, as a Jedi, your Sphere serves this purpose. Anything inside the Sphere of Responsibility you can sense is something the Force is entrusting you to deal with. For example, say that you sphere stretches out in a 10 yard radius, and you are sitting in a classroom listening to your proffessor and you feel a fight going on in the room directly to your back.

Now you can't very well get up and go break up the fight, and it probably wouldn't do too much good if you did. What you could do however is begin to smooth out the roiled emotions that cause all those disturbances in the Force. This will allow the people involved to think more clearly and more rationally. If you are capable of other abilities that should be used, you should use them. This gives you an idea of what you need to respond to. Now to the actual technique.

The basic Jedi's Sphere of Responsiblity goes something like this. You must concentrate inside of yourself and find your center. Gather your internal Force energy in that center. Feel it compress into something about the size of a softball. Now expand the edges of the ball to encompass your body, but nothing outside. Imagine the inside being water. Once you can feel things within your body as such, then you can move on. Reach out to the Force outside your body. Infuse it with the Force that is inside of you and once more push the edges. This time let them extend in a spherical shape outside of your body. The trick with this is to find the point at which you can still sense everything inside, but if you expand it any further, then you will not be able to sense anything inside it anymore. Once you have found this edge, if you think you aren't channeling as much Force as you potentially could into the sphere then channel more into it and expand it. You might be able to get a few more inches this
way. Now it isn't enough for me to simply explain how to do it, I will also explain how this works. As you already know, the Force you feel outside of yourself is the links between the internal Force that exists in all living things. The links in between all these living things are so numerous that they all become compressed into a veritable pool of energy all around you. When you expand your sphere from inside of yourself outside, your sphere will detect everything living inside itself, because the sphere is made of Force and therefore is connected to the living things. The sphere will also detect the non-living things because of the gap they leave in the Force. You may ask, "Well, if I am connected to all of these things, why can I not sense them innately?"

The answer is such, some people can. Some people's inate connection is strong enough that they might have sensations of sensing something long before they undergo Jedi training. This is due to their connections through the Force. As a Jedi though, when you expand your sphere, the amount of your own internal energy that you have also in the sphere gives it a stronger connection with you allowing you to sense it better. Think of it this way. Let us say that your sphere is a giant glass orb, in
which you sit in the center. You fill it up with your energy, which we will say is salt. When you pour the outside Force into it as well (which will be represented by water), you get salt-water. Well the higher the concentration of your energy is present the better the sensing is inside of it. So if you expand it to double the distance it was when you were just using your internal energy, then you have half as much of your own energy in it, so therefore you can only sense half as well. Your energy
becomes diluted in the outside energy, making your personal connection to everything inside the sphere diluted. As your Jedi skills increase the shear amount of energy you have inside of you will increase allowing your sphere to enlarge, encompassing more and also symbolizing your Jedi responsiblities expanding with your abilites. This also ensures that any responsiblities that are laid onto you, you can handle. So if you are ever feeling like you are buckling under the load, just
take heart in the fact that the Force considers you worthy of the load and considers you capable of bearing it all. And so it will aid you in all you do......