Actual Churches?

Br. John wrote: As a thought experiment let's assume there is such a temple already in existence. If it's not near where you live, how many of you would be able to go there? How often could you go and how long could you stay?

Which reinforces to me it would need to be special on some way, whether its the design, location or services offered etc, otherwise they are just places to meet and might not require to be dedicated to those intermittent occasions. I do like though using the term Temple to refer to that special place, wherever it is.... inside you, a devoted room, or one day a dedicated facility.

Larrus wrote: ...development of those who aspire to become Jedi always seems to come down to funding

Business plan's might deserve their own thread. If people had a vision to build a plan with measurable outputs, that are Jedi-ish, then places like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation at http://www.gatesfoundation.org have a history of supporting pilot projects that are non-profit.

I wonder if something with the title Jedi would be denied funding based on its name and its not being affiliated with LucasFilm.

Do you imagine companies or foundations would NOT want to get involved with that?

RiddleNox wrote: I wonder if something with the title Jedi would be denied funding based on its name and its not being affiliated with LucasFilm.

I do not know the legal side of the word Jedi, but funding could be packaged as being for a project/program and not for the organisation that might be operating it perhaps, meaning you could call it whatever is suitable/descriptive.

Would that go for other words,also? Such as Force? I' m sure Lucas has much bigger fish swimming the money pond.

The trademark on Jedi is for fictional characters, action figures, games and the like. It does not apply for religious or realist purposes.

So, we can name a Jedi Church... just not sell T-shirts with the name Jedi Church on it?

We can sell shirts and various things with our name on them. Our name does not infringe on any trademark.

So what does? Or, better yet, where can you find this kind of information?

Raising people is more important than raising buildings.

Br. John wrote: As a thought experiment let's assume there is such a temple already in existence. If it's not near where you live, how many of you would be able to go there? How often could you go and how long could you stay?

If this was a place that you could live for the rest of your life etc then I would go. I might not stay forever of course, but I would at least try it out and live there