Jediism & Journal of Jedi Richard Strange

Raising the Djed

Raising the djed appears to be a practise that dates back at least to ancient egypt, and is thought to be a practise designed to counter times of chaos. The drums of the shaman and the chanting of the monks may also have similar aims of countering chaos and dark energies, in its many forms.

“Historically, the Djed was raised at crucial transitional times between cycles, evoking light and stability to dispel darkness and disorder. Such periods were the Winter solstices, the failing years of a reigning monarch or the coronation of a new one. However, according to the texts of the Temple of Horus at Edfu, the Djed served its greatest purpose and revealed its greatest mystery at the ending of one world age and the beginning of another. This is such a time!” by Vincent Bridges.

The time that Vincent is talking about is 2012 and the transitional years before and afterwords (the astronomical event that coincides with this prophetic date takes about 26 years). On December 21, 2012, for the first time in approximately 26,000 years the Sun will rise to conjunct the intersection of the Milky Way and the ecliptic plane.

We are in the last few years of the 4th Age of Man, and about to enter this new 5th Age of Man. It is thought that the ending of each of these ages of man was accompanied by chaos in the form of climatic and social upheaval, amongst other possibilities (the Great Flood).

If you look at the actual djed, which is a pillar, you may notice its technical appearance. It has been suggested that it looks like a capacitor, transformer and insulation device that could have been used to tap the ionosphere for power, or lightning, but we may have lost the knowledge of its operation since the last age.

The Egyptians themselves may have lost the knowledge of its operation, and may have used it as a focal point of worship - civilization around then may have been founded by survivors of the great flood, and much would have been lost in the way of knowledge and expertise. There are submerged cities and structures around the world, and if biblical accounts are to be believed then the calamity could have occurred within weeks (40 days and 40 nights).

Whether the djed was an actual device or not matters not at this point. The djed pillar also has symbolic links to the World Tree of Norse mythology, Yggdrasil, and other world trees in cultures around the world (mainly euro-asian).  The world tree basically connects different realities (underworld, this world, upper world) together - from my own experience I would say that the concept of all 3 realities overlaying our planet earth is a distinct possibility. Energies, light and dark, from above and below, converge in this material “middle” earth and affect life as we know it, especially conscious humanity, which is more apt to the manipulation of these and other, cosmic energies. If you take the underworld and upperworld into account then this planet earth is important to more than just humanity, and must be preserved whole.

Raising the djed is also thought to be a practise designed to raise awareness and consciousness whilst maintaining the peace and stability of order in cosmos. The djedi of old may have been the stable ones (they may have been mindful). I feel that consciousness manifests where it is able, but the Force flows through all, and we jedi may have some task to play in the raising of the Djed into the 5th Age of Man.

I am starting this thread to get other jedi’s feelings on the matter of what part the jedi should take. I feel that non action will not do in this case. Please post a comment if you have any vaild suggestions, ideas, or other input.

May the Force be with You

 Jedi Richard Strange
http://www.pujasforwellbeing.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_tree
http://vincentbridges.com/?p=70
http://www.willusurvive2012.com/pueblo-indigenous-prophecies-2012.html
http://www.realitysandwich.com/vision_conscious_convergence
http://commonpassion.org/content/unity-thinking
http://gcpdot.com/
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/science2.html#hypothesis
http://www.willusurvive2012.com/shamanic-preparation-2012.html

I’ve just submitted the following question to the Sky News Leaders’ TV Debate that is on tv later on tonight. Lol if my question gets selected I might be on tv later on.

“There are a few thousand large pipes around the coastline of the UK, which disgorge untreated sewage directly into river or sea whenever heavy rain affects the drainage and sewage systems. At the moment it’s either this or flood our streets with untreated sewage - not a pretty choice either way. Water sustains us, and it allows life. How can we keep on polluting on a world wide scale as we are. The green revolution should not only be about power. My question is which party will look at improving waste and effluence control in the UK, and abroad?”

May the Force be with You

 Jedi Richard Strange

If you’re near Norwich on the 28th or 29th of August this year then you may want to consider having a day out at the East Anglian Festival of Light.

East Anglian Festival of Light 2010

It looks sure to be a great day out for all the family, as the growing list of attractions, workshops and exhibitors attests to. I’ve already played some small part by recommending the services of the UK Garrison of the 501st, Vader’s Fist, to help with charity collections, and I’m sure this great group of people will add a colourful presence in their Stormtrooper outfits.

Be sure to check back for any updates I receive from the organisers, whom I’m in touch with.

May the Force be with You

Jedi Richard Strange

I am pleased to announce that Jedi Skywalker has been released from prison in Saudi Arabia, and he is back home in the Philippines with his family :). I’m assuming Mr Lactaotao was also released, but Jedi Skywalker didn’t mention this at this time.

Thanks go to Jedi Setanaoko, Jedi SlabTzu DelFuego, and Jedi Punven for helping with this mission to have Jedi Skywalker be released on time.

As we have found out, people in prison in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are often forgotten about, or worse, and so I would also like to extend my thanks to those in diplomatic circles, whom I contacted or whom were involved in relation to this mission, for facilitating this release. 

 I hope that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will now go on to improve things in regards to their judicial system, and treatment of prisoners. In a system where justice is swift, then compassion should also be just as swift.

 May the Force be with You

 Jedi Richard Strange

PS - this post has been edited to protect the identity of Jedi Skywalker

The following post I received from the AndorProjex email list gives warning that the current forecast of the rise in sea level (by just a a meter or so) could be dangerous, especially to those in charge of bolstering coastal and river flood defences. With the way the arctic ice is melting - the arctic could be more or less ice free in another decade, and not 2050, or 2100, as thought just a year or 2 ago - then surely Greenlands vast sheets of ice could begin to melt just as fast.

I feel that they’d better add another 7 meters to that first estimate of 1.5 meters or so, for the global rise in sea levels.  This may happen in our lifetimes.

 May the Force be with Us

 Jedi Richard Strange

Sun Feb 14, 1:12 pm ET

PARIS (AFP) – Greenland’s continent-sized icesheet is being significantly eroded by winds and currents that drive warmer water into fjords, where it carves out the base of coastal glaciers, according to studies released Sunday.

The icy mass sitting atop Greenland holds enough water to boost global sea levels by seven metres (23 feet), potentially drowning low-lying coastal cities and deltas around the world.

At present, the ocean watermark is rising at around three millimetres (0.12 inches) per year, a figure that compares with 1.8mm (0.07 inches) annually in the early 1960s.

But Greenland’s contribution has more than doubled in the past decade, and scientists suspect climate change is largely to blame, although exactly how this is occurring is fiercely debated.

Some theories point to air temperatures, which are rising faster in far northern latitudes than the global average.

A rival idea is that shifting currents and subtropical ocean waters moving north are eroding the foundation of coastal glaciers, accelerating their slide into the sea, especially those inside Greenland’s many fjords.

Until now, however, these studies have been mainly based on mathematical models rather than observation.

A team of scientists led by Fiammetta Straneo of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts set out to help fill that data void.

Working off of a ship in July and September 2008, the researchers took detailed measurements of the water properties in the Sermilik Fjord connecting Helheim Glacier in eastern Greenland with the ocean.

They found deep water streaming into the fjord was 3.0-4.0 degrees Celsius (37.4-39.2 degrees Fahrenheit), warm enough to cut into the base of the glaciers and hasten their plunge into the sea.

Moored instruments left in the fjord for eight months showed that winds aligned with the coastline played a crucial role in the influx of these warmer waters.

“Our findings support increased submarine melting as a trigger for the glacier acceleration, but indicated a combination of atmospheric and oceanic changes as the likely driver,” the researchers say.

In a separate field study, Eric Rignot of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California and colleagues tried to calculate the relative share of the causes of glacier loss.

Investigating the western side of Greenland, they took ocean measurements in August 2008 in three fjords at the base of four glaciers breaking off into the sea, a process known as calving.

Ocean melting, they found, accounted for between 20 and 75 percent of ice loss from the glacier face, with calving from the part of the iceberg exposed to air accounting for the rest.

Meanwhile, a study also published in the journal Nature Geoscience warned that oceans could become more acidic faster than at any time over the last 65 million years.

Andy Ridgwell and Daniella Schmidt of the University of Bristol, western England compared past and future changes in ocean acidity using computer simulations.

They found that the surface of the ocean is set to acidify even faster than it did during a well-documented episode of greenhouse warming 55.5 million years ago.

Accelerating acidification has already begun to take a toll on numerous marine animals that play a vital role in ocean food chain and help draw off huge quantities of CO2 from the atmosphere.

The calcium carapace of microscopic animals called foraminifera living in the Southern Ocean, for example, have fallen in weight by a third.

In 2008, I and a few jedi from the Jedi Sanctuary looked into the problems facing Africa and its peoples after we found that slavery still existed there, in one form or another. I have since been monitoring this war torn continent, which is fast becoming the next major battle ground in the war against terrorism, and there is hope, though it is hard to see with all the suffering shrouding my view.

http://www.thestrange1.co.uk/jedistrange/stop_human_trafficking.html

Judging by a recent UK tv campaign, it appears that Cadbury have finally gone fair trade, which is a great thing for chocolate lovers, and the African cocoa farming communities of people that will benefit from this action (Cote D’Ivoire and west coast countries primarily). It is to be hoped that Nestle and others will eventually follow Cadbury’s more enlightened lead in this matter.

Judging by the following excerpt, it seems that there is still hope for Africa in the form of the recently reorganized NEPAD (New Partnership for Africa’s Development), but that hope won’t be realized overnight.

President Wade, speaking bluntly, in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, at the opening of the 44th assembly of the African Development Bank (AfDB), did not miss out on African leaders with the target being the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). A lot of money has been spent for nothing, he said, adding that the problem of NEPAD can be compared to “a Mercedes without a good driver”.

The Senegalese president said the fundamentals were well in place and what was needed was a good pilot for the situation to evolve positively. He expressed the hope that the new Executive Secretary of NEPAD, Ibrahim Mayaki, is going to apply the NEPAD programme which has been transferred to the African Union Commission.

President Wade said the continent would only improve by bringing African countries into a single country. “As long as we work separately, we will achieve nothing,” he declared, saying the solution lies in the establishment of a United States of Africa.

Dakar - 13/05/2009

A United States of Africa would be an interesting development, and, I feel, a movement in the right direction, not only for Africa and its people, but for the whole world. Having said that, we must be mindful that it took 200 years for the USA to become what it is today, and even there they have problems of one sort or another, as do most countries - east and west.

I feel education is still the key, but it may be a couple of generations before the fruits of education - an enlightened and empowered general public led by people of incorruptable and moderate inclination - are tasted across the whole of Africa.

The “Age of Aquarius” is still some way off in the future, I feel, but it is still a possibility for all people around the world. It will not happen, however, without right action. Compromise is usually the way to peace, if thirst and hunger are sated, though, for some, compromise is never enough, which is a shame.

May the Force be with You

Jedi Richard Strange

We received an email last night, and follow ups today at the Jedi Sanctuary email list detailing Jedi Skywalkers plight (name edited to protect identity) - he has been in a Saudi jail for the last few months, seemingly lost within the system. I will be seeking help for him, so if you know anything about Saudi law, how we can get him out, procedures or anything please let me know using my contact page.

http://www.thestrange1.co.uk/jedistrange/contact/contact.html

If you wish to follow this filipino Jedi’s cause and help please get in touch. Thankyou

May the Force be with You

Jedi Richard Strange

I was involved last week in a campaign to ban the use of cluster bombs (a really nasty bit of weapons tech), and I’m glad to say that 100 countries have agreed to ban their use. I hope that the rest of the world will get on board with this. For a full report check out the following page.

 http://www.stopclustermunitions.org/news/?id=296

May the Force be with You

Jedi Strange

The United Nations is convening an emergency summit of world leaders in Rome this week to address the skyrocketing world food crisis. There is a real danger that rich country leaders will push half measures and band-aid solutions – we need a huge global outcry to demand rapid, massive, coordinated action.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/world_food_crisis/5.php?cl=94071135

The head of the UN, Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, will receive our petition at the summit at 9:30AM on Wednesday morning.  Please sign this - It is estimated that 100 million people could be facing starvation.

May the Force be with You

Jedi Richard Strange

Donations came to Avaaz from all over the world, allowing them to get the cyclone aid in to the country of Burma through the proverbial back door, using a network of Buddhist monasteries and their monks to deliver it to the needy. Much needed International aid is still being blocked. Check the following page for the full report.

 http://www.avaaz.org/en/burma_aid_report/6.php

Thanks to everyone for donating, and for helping the people of Burma.

May the Force be with You

Jedi Richard Strange