Jedi

Eight police officers serving with Scotland's largest force have listed their official religion as Jedi.

Count me in!

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Any inability to see and experience the spiritual realm is partly and profoundly due to one's sustained focus on the "noise" of the physical senses and on the machinations of the intellect. As a result, most of human life is spent in a fugue state, a self-created fog. This living within a bubble of surround-sound, this regard of sensation and thought as the only reality, is the main form of consciousness of humans on earth today. Though some may give lip service to the idea, precious few wish their bubble popped.

It is funny (both peculiar and amusing) that what we call reality -- sensory and intellectual data processing -- is primarily fantasy, and that what we call fantasy -- the vast realm of the spiritual -- is primary reality. We are such a backwards people.

Of course, the three together -- sensory knowledge, intellectual knowledge, and visionary or spiritual knowledge -- are a powerful force. In an effort to rid ourselves of "superstition" and oppressive religious structures, we kept the first two knowledges and threw out the third, the most powerful one of all. We still have, as a society, a long way to go in reclaiming this birth right, in stopping our self-inflicted amputation of the visionary realm.