Part 1: Discovering the path
1. What first inspired you to seek the Jedi path in your life? “Truthfully I feel like I have always been on it. Everything I have ever studied was a progressive step toward the Jedi Knights path. I feel this path manifested itself due to my diligent study of martial arts, religion, spirituality, and metaphysics. It discovered me.”
2. Were there any key events around that time that caused you to seek this path? “Yes. I moved here to Amarillo to open a martial arts school. I left everything I knew to follow a dream in hopes that I can bring my children and my fiancée home to me, and get them out of the negativity that is trying to corrupt their lives. This fell into my lap, I can’t even tell you how. It came right in time because I have no one here to guide me. Now I have the Jedi path to follow, and I see that it will always go in the right direction.”
3.How did you find this training? Like I said, it found me. A friend brought over some Star Wars movies to watch. I wanted to google Jedi pictures or something and I clicked on your link somehow. I saw the word REALIST and was hooked!
a. Have you received any training elsewhere? “I have been researching all this stuff my whole life, but no; I have never actually trained it in any great detail. Just a little here and there. I also recently joined the Order of the Jedi.”
Part 2: The View Along the Way
1. How would you define a Jedi? “I would define a Jedi as a knight, a great warrior who spends his whole life developing virtue and compassion. A Jedi is a student of the force. A man or woman who develops it to its greatest potential for the empowerment of the world, in order to bring hope and peace. We are protectors and servants to those in need.”
2. What aspects of the Jedi do you aspire to? “All of them. I will find balance in my study so that I can consistently improve in all areas of life. This includes warrior skills, meditation, psychic development, ESP, reiki healing, community service and leader ship skills, as well as leadership and communication. I will leave no stone unturned in regard to personal development!”
3. What does it mean to be a Jedi in society? “It means to go out of my way to become more than just a productive part of it. It means earning more so that I have more to give. It means looking for opportunities to serve the community, to strengthen the collective conscious of the world so that we will manifest peace instead of chaos on our planet. It means to fight for what we believe in with a ferocity that this world has yet to see, and to win!”
Part 3: Looking Forward
1. What are your goals in your Jedi training for the next three months? “My goals are to consistently train in mind, body and spirit. I will start meditating more and working on ESP. I will strap on a white belt and go learn the way of the sword. I will strength train without neglecting flexibility and endurance. I will start the process of changing my lifestyle in a way that will be conducive to my growth as a Jedi.”
a. The next six months? My goals are to have some more experience in feeling the force and to develop my intuition in a more practical and useful way. By this time I want to diligently serve my community using my martial arts studio as a springboard for helping others to empower themselves in a more complete way.”
b. The next year? By this time I want to have improved dramatically in all areas mentioned thus far. I want to be a descent sword fighter by then also. I want to glow with radiating health and abundance so that people are inspired by being around me. I will re-asses my goals at that time, and plan for even more growth and development.
2. What do you anticipate will be your biggest challenge to reaching those goals? “Time and money. I have to spend every penny I have on keeping my dojo open until it becomes a profitable endeavor. This makes it hard to afford books, and classes that would be beneficial to me as a Jedi.” I don’t know where to even look to find instructors in Reiki or energy work or meditation anyway. I will have to look into my options. Time is an issue because I spend a lot of time teaching martial art, so it is hard to find time to learn. I am making time now though, and as my business grows I will cross that bridge when I come to it.”
I am excited ecstatic about this journey. I have already busted through some plateaus so any challenges I face seem irrelevant. This will give me purpose and initiative. Failure is not an option, and whats really cool is that I feel like there is no way to fail as long as I stay on the road. All lessons learned will be beneficial and have an accumulative effect. I can even be thankful for opposition because I work best under pressure!”
May the force be with you. – Syris
