Become the Force by Daniel M. Jones

Author:Daniel M. Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Become the Force
ISBN: 9781786780904
Publisher: Watkins Media
Published: 2017-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

Allow the universal life Force to flow through you unrestricted by fear and you will feel the greatest joy and see the greatest wonder you have ever seen.

Daniel M. Jones

Chapter

FIVE

Emotional Control and Anger Management

Patience you must have, my young Padawan.

Yoda, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

Once you begin to tap into the living life Force – the loving glue that binds everyone and everything together – you become limitless potential and experience the most indescribable joy. However, just as night always follows day, you can’t have joy without sadness, or light without the dark side of the Force. Jediism does not deny the existence of the dark side. Instead it recognizes and accepts that, for reasons we can’t understand, the dark side both within and around us is a reality we need to face with courage. It offers applied living techniques to help us navigate our way through the storm and grow wiser in the process.

I deliberately avoided focusing on the dark side of the Force until this point in the book because in my own life I have found that the best way to manage the dark side is not to give it the spotlight. That just fuels or feeds negativity and makes it grow stronger. However, a wise Jediist must be aware that darkness exists and be able to recognize it when it strikes so he or she can learn from it and then move forward with greater selfawareness. The dark side thrives on attention and addiction. Starve it of both and it will have no power over you. This profound life lesson was something I had to learn the hard way.

THE GROCERY EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

In 2009 I found myself making national newspaper headlines again – but this time for all the wrong reasons. Here’s the Guardian feature headline:

“Jedi religion founder accuses Tesco of discrimination over rules on hoods”

Pretty attention-grabbing! Things got worse with the rest of the feature.

“Tesco has been accused of religious discrimination after the company ordered the founder of a Jedi religion to remove his hood or leave a branch of the supermarket in North Wales.”

Yes, I really did make an official complaint. Not only did that complaint end up in the Guardian newspaper and other British national newspapers, it went right up to Fox and CNN TV news as well. After the 2008 Star feature and the explosion of interest that followed, things had finally started to settle down for Jediism in terms of media interest but suddenly I was back in the intense glare of the spotlight.

The Guardian feature went on to describe the unsavoury incident with great relish, accompanied by pictures of me in my hood looking particularly defiant, mean and moody. Looking at those pictures now, I’d probably ask myself to leave the supermarket.

“Daniel Jones, founder of the religion inspired by the Star Wars films, says he was humiliated and victimized for his beliefs following the incident at a Tesco store in Bangor. The 23-yearold, who founded the International Church of Jediism, which has 500,000 followers worldwide, was told the hood flouted store rules.

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