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Who are the Jedi Knights?
Pete the Waggon
By T Stokes
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meets some unusual characters on the new age festival circuit, And
one of the most interesting must be the chap known as "pete
the waggon". The New Age movement grew up out of the corruption
of contempory politics, The narrowness of Allopathic medicine and
the stagnancy of modern religions, the young felt there had to be
another way, and wanted to take back the power from the people exploiters
who seemingly, run the country for themselves.
While seeing in Britain that we each work for 5 months until the
month of May just paying taxes for needless wars built on lies and
subterfuge. They see the land of the fathers and grandfathers raped
by politicians searching the world to bring in more and more people
to work for less money than they will. They see daily the undermining
of national democracy, by the very people who should be preserving
it.
The young disenfranchised, with their futures stolen, watched as
Christian priests sat by silently, and even blessed the planes and
tanks that went out to bomb and burn Moslems in their homes, Because
we coveted their oil, and their lands.
It is this disillusionment with the criminality of those in high
places, which gave the New Age movement its edge?
The disillusioned are coming together and call themselves the Jedi
Knights, they avoid organized hierarchical religions, but earnestly
seek to find their spiritual path. The 2001 census revealed huge
numbers of people claimed their religion was that of the Jedi Knight.
For many years "Pete the waggon," so called because he
lives for most of the year in a gypsy waggon, was a man who helped
rebuild peoples broken faces, the terrible injuries received after
road accidents and violence appalled him, and after becoming increasingly
unhappy with the rat-race he left it for the simple life.
Pete as one of the Jedi pioneers, tours the country summer festivals,
teaching the merits of a simple life, giving advice and counseling,
offering herbal poultices from leaves and roots for aches and pains,
and giving relaxing herbal foot massages.
Pete a deeply spiritual man sees his god in the trees, he feels
that god is in the grass the rivers and the sky, and it is in living
his life in harmony with the open that he worships this god. Many
are those who flock to him to unlock the burdens and cares of their
rat race imprisonment, there is always a queue to sit in the gypsy
waggon and talk over a hot cup of one of pete's home made herbal
teas.
Pete's philosophy is simple, to care for one another and save the
world before the politicians ruin it, and that death is not the
end but another beginning. For those whose life pursuit is ever
bigger houses, faster cars more clothes
jewelry more women or men, you are wasting your life, for you need
none of it.
Pete's healing is in his message, burn your credit card and live
simply and Pete's lifestyle is contagious, he has restored and even
built several gypsy waggons for other enthusiasts, including a half
sized one for a children's
Christmas.
Last year his waggon played host to newlyweds on honeymoon, they
have already booked for the first anniversary, while Pete is considering
an offer to take his waggon into schools to talk about a carefree
vanished way of life, with
food for free and cures from the hedgerows. If you go to a summer
festival and you see Pete, say hello, you may be
surprised to meet a man who will show you another way of thinking,
feeling and living, take away your pain, and all for no money, although
I hear he will accept a few apples or similar.
Follow his journey and his message on his blog and Chat with him
at ladyjane@talktalk.net
T Stokes copyright 2007
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