Well it seems I have been put on secret trial here and condemned to execution. I did not get a chance to even defend myself in this trial and so the result is nothing more than a kangaroo court. Ironically enough it started when I actually re-requested membership here so that I may volunteer to help out in the edu-admin dept, helping to develop the B-Div path for non-Knights. Not only was it voted that I not be made a member, they also voted to ban me forever. The charge against me used to ban me – incompatibility. Nothing more than a fancy puffed up word used to facilitate this leaderships own hypocrisy. I don’t believe in the Gods they believe in and so I am to be put to death as a result.
I don’t claim to know anything, I only claim to doubt. This is the very root of the idea that I know that I know nothing. Some claim this is the start of wisdom. But I do not know this to be true either. I only know that I am good at asking questions and exposing fallacy. These are not the acts of malice, they are the acts of compassion. If I did not care I would not take the time to even challenge you. But this has been regarded as disagreeable behavior at this temple and not allowed. But what is the result of disallowing dissenting opinion of a position or criticism of a body? It is preconceived bias not exploration. It is a cult mentality, not a temple of Jediism. I have been cut from the herd because the autocracy here that protects these predispositions is threatened by me. I ask, who will be next?
I have been deemed evil, a detriment to this temple. But these terms, good and evil, are just ideas attached to certain experiences. They actually have no objective reality beyond the human mind. As Jedi, who strive to see all sides of an issue so that a fair assessment can be made, this idea should be paramount. However in this case it seems to have been missed by the very leadership that guides this temple. They have looked only to the surface of this situation and failed to see the deeper dimension to this very real human experience that is beyond simple material assessment. They miss the idea that there is something deeper to us than material form. What that is I cannot say, it is simply the question I seek to explore. But I have been dismissed for exploring it too deeply and too honestly. I ask, is this the sort of leadership you want taking you into that darkness beyond your comfort zone?
This is an important question because it cuts to the heart of who and what we experience ourselves as. Each of us are an explicit and intentionally specific material manifestation of a more fundamental property forming and informing the universe. We are literally nothing that emerges as something for a period in this strange medium we call space-time. We are literally the senses that the universe uses to know itself and it is only our mind that creates the illusion of dichotomy, of separate things. A blade of grass can’t exist without the sun, the earth and the air. It is actually made up of those things just as we are made up of the very elements of the universe itself. When we lend this idea to a religious doctrinal paradigm such as this temple espouses, oneness actually informs diversity and diversity becomes oneness. It is all a singular and spectacular unity of unfolding. The illusion in this is ones belief that this can be controlled as the Knights have tried to control me by getting rid of me. They fail to see the very depth to which they ascribe themselves. They are not banning me, they are only banning themselves, they are banning opportunity. I consider that a dangerous policy.
I encourage all here to consider these words. Do not mourn for me. I shall go on. I will always be around, no matter how much they try to silence me. Instead of partnering with me in this quest, they chose to strike me down. But in doing so they have allowed me to become more powerful than they can possibly imagine.
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