Alternative Life

The Days of Djedi

Perhaps it only imagination, the creative force, that allows us to make connections between spiritual and physical dimensions, and yet when you get out of ‘historic’ myth and into the ‘active’ mystic force, you realize that you are the embodiment of the hero’s journey.

The Dark Quest is a part of any hero’s journey. For Dorothy, she had to confront the witch. Luke had to descend down into a tree, overrun by the dark side. James T Kirk took the Kobayashi Maru test three times. Earth, for many people, is a dark quest. Can beings of light descend into chaos and not succumb to fear, inflaming anger, resulting in hate escalating suffering for all.

We can debate about Kirk cheating all day long. Luke had a cheat, having been minimally trained in the ways of the Force, and talented enough he had no doubt about life after life. He watched Kenobi die, and yet maintained a dialogue with him. There is no death. Even so, when asked to face the darkness he armed himself.

“You will not need that,” Yoda said in reference to the Jedi’s sacred weapon, the lightsaber.