Kharis Nightflyer’s The Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4
Founder: Kharis Nightflyer
Year: December 5th 1995
home.ptd.net/~ralph/academy.html [ url is now not active/dead]
Kharis Nightflyer’s Jedi Academy was a website that was built in December of 1995, and is said to be the first example of actual Jedi training found on the internet. Within this site laid the Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4, the actual training section of the site. Most people never found the main page of the site, due to the way the search engines at the time tagged the page. It is for this reason that some remember the site under different names, but those that know of the site will never forget the name Kharis Nightflyer.
Kharis was a great fan of the Jedi Academy trilogy, and blended the information he got from it with the yogic practices he already knew, giving us the first steps into the Force. The nearly-universal Calming Breath technique that most practicing Jedi have seen at least one time was first applied to the Jedi and the Force by this man, and his website. He was also the first to post anything having to do with sensory meditations for the Jedi online, long before any one of us knew the other. His was the first site to teach the four-line Jedi Code, plucked straight from the fiction, but explained in his own short words.
Kharis also attempted to warn us all about the dangers of teaching. His lessons often were taken in part, or in whole, from the fiction, but that did nothing to remove their importance. If only some of us had listened to these words of warning when they were offered to us.
Kharis was a “less is more” kind of teacher. He often did not answer specific questions through email, but would often reply with nothing more than a quote. His site was heavy with quotes from the movies, and the books.
-Jared Michaels
Year: December 5th 1995
home.ptd.net/~ralph/academy.html [ url is now not active/dead]
Kharis Nightflyer’s Jedi Academy was a website that was built in December of 1995, and is said to be the first example of actual Jedi training found on the internet. Within this site laid the Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4, the actual training section of the site. Most people never found the main page of the site, due to the way the search engines at the time tagged the page. It is for this reason that some remember the site under different names, but those that know of the site will never forget the name Kharis Nightflyer.
Kharis was a great fan of the Jedi Academy trilogy, and blended the information he got from it with the yogic practices he already knew, giving us the first steps into the Force. The nearly-universal Calming Breath technique that most practicing Jedi have seen at least one time was first applied to the Jedi and the Force by this man, and his website. He was also the first to post anything having to do with sensory meditations for the Jedi online, long before any one of us knew the other. His was the first site to teach the four-line Jedi Code, plucked straight from the fiction, but explained in his own short words.
Kharis also attempted to warn us all about the dangers of teaching. His lessons often were taken in part, or in whole, from the fiction, but that did nothing to remove their importance. If only some of us had listened to these words of warning when they were offered to us.
Kharis was a “less is more” kind of teacher. He often did not answer specific questions through email, but would often reply with nothing more than a quote. His site was heavy with quotes from the movies, and the books.
-Jared Michaels