Christian Fundamentalist/Protestant/Hebrew Israelite Jedi

Many Christian Jedi maintain The Force is another name for The Holy Spirit. It does not matter what you hold Jediism to be. Way of Life, Philosophy, Religion or Code of Conduct - no problem.

I can only tell my story with Christianity and Jedi Way. It is very personally biased.

I tried to convert into Orthodox Christianity recently, thought I could be Orthodox Christian Jedi. An acquaintance of mine, who is a representative of church, spoke with me. His position was that orthodox Christianity possesses all the right answers and all other people are either wrong or heretics.

In my experience, I had deep existential journey into the dark and I faced spiritual questions that Christianity did not give me answers for. And so, I solved this questions myself. At some point I have discovered a spiritual path before me and had to choose, what will it be. I looked deep into myself and searched for a sole image, sole spark of light to guide me. And the most powerful light thing that I found was an image of a Jedi, a spiritual journeyman and warrior, who feels the spiritual ocean directly via same vibes which communicate music and inspiration.

Since then, I've walked Jedi Path and have learned to respect other religious traditions as long as they do not assault my beliefs. I've seen Force as a notion which can be accepted by both eastern and western beliefs. Something that can be experienced. Something that can be explored.

My christian acquaintance tried to "save" me from what is my nature, what makes me feel good and help people and love and persevere darkness and pain.

I do not know, whether it was his narrowness or narrowness of christian belief system. I know that many orthodox Christians would react this way. I believe that any Christianity is ok with Jedi Way, but few are the Christians who are capable of this.

My acquaintance showed fear, when he tried to frighten me (with hell and suffering) into Christianity.
He showed insincerity, when he failed to recognize negative sides of orthodox christian church as it exists in Russia nowadays.
He showed narrowness, when he disrespected Buddhism with no knowledge of it, making naive mistakes.
He showed aggressiveness, when I have defied his efforts to turn me.

They say about martial arts: you can choose whatever you want, but don't expect that your martial art is going to fight instead of you. There are great spiritual traditions and there are people, who fail to match them.

I grew up Christian. I don't adhere to it as my primary faith but I do appreciate it still. If you explained where you are seeing conflicts, perhaps I can help offer some different ways to view things.

The book is specifically aimed at helping one determine whether or not they even WANT to look further into the Jedi Philosophy. It's a series of articles, one in particular actually addresses the problems that other people have had when it comes to determining whether or not the Jedi Path conflicts with their personal relationship with a deity (for the record, I identify as a Christian Jedi). The are other that help you better understand the flexibility of discovering what "the Force" is to you. Some of it is from my personal point of view, others of it is from the neutral stand point of addressing concerns that others have brought to me and how they decided to either leave the path because of it, or stay on the path because they reconciled the concepts together.

I'd be an RCC (Roman Catholic Church) Buddhist Pagan Jedi.. :blink:

Lol, Adder. You have spiritual flash royal j-D

Br. John wrote: Many Christian Jedi maintain The Force is another name for The Holy Spirit. It does not matter what you hold Jediism to be. Way of Life, Philosophy, Religion or Code of Conduct - no problem.

Not sure yet what to call my Jedi way of life.

Jedi Spiritualist Realist?
Intuitively Compassed Jedi Spiritualist Realist?

By the time I figure it out, it will have evolved. :blush: no problem

I recognize the Force as a personal internal compass, ubiquitous and metaphysical

den385 wrote: His position was that orthodox Christianity possesses all the right answers and all other people are either wrong or heretics.

That is the sign to RUN

I had a similar experience with Christianity at first, listening to a pastor yell and pound on the podium about the lake of fire. Needless to say, my family and I eventually left that church. I didn't really accept Christ until I found him on my own (or rather that he found me), and then the contradictions fell away.

Streen wrote:

den385 wrote: His position was that orthodox Christianity possesses all the right answers and all other people are either wrong or heretics.

That is the sign to RUN

I had a similar experience with Christianity at first, listening to a pastor yell and pound on the podium about the lake of fire. Needless to say, my family and I eventually left that church. I didn't really accept Christ until I found him on my own (or rather that he found me), and then the contradictions fell away.

My experience to what you share Streen . . . .
RCC is the one true religion . . . if you don't belong your doomed from the mouth of the same teacher who first taught
God loves everybody

as you say, when I found out for myself, the contradictions fell away.

Quiet offtopic and, maybe, strange.

Matters of spirit are thin. Dangerous to go solo. (Take a wookiee with you )

I have found no one offline to guide me for now. Finding the right path into any spiritual community takes time, not sheer will.

I can not deny this matters: my gift is that of sensing the Force. It is central in me.

Any spiritual way is dangerous. All spiritual practices are psycho-active. Unprepared mind can be severely traumatized from such explorations.

I prefer "dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery". Ignoring matters of spirit is not an option for me.

So, the way is dangerous and I can not escape it. Bad news.

I can control the rhythm, I can pause, I can prepare myself with knowledge and self-discipline. Good news.

For now, I have decided to pause. Have a break from my explorations. Build self-discipline. Educate myself in humanitarian sciences. When I make pillars of self-discipline and knowledge in me as strong as the pillar of Force, only then I can continue my training. Otherwise, nothing good will come outta this.