The First Jedi: How the Galaxy's First University Jedi Course was Destroyed by Dark Forces

In 2008, Dr Allen Baird designed and delivered the UK’s first university course for Jedi. It exploded like a thought-bomb on the worlds of Education and Media. Was it an attempt to gain global notoriety, work out childhood demons, or revolutionise adult training? Whatever Dr Baird’s motives, the results were impressive, most impressive. Journalists gave him international publicity. Colleagues praised his attempt to reach out to the uninitiated. Ordinary citizens scratched their heads in wonder and smiled. The light was not to last. Local academics soon resented Dr Baird’s attempts to unlock the secrets of knowledge with the key of pop culture. Others whispered censorship, and accused Dr Baird of stirring religious debate in a country too used to its incendiary effects. But the darkness was yet to fall. Part indie novel, part autobiography, part training guide, this book tells the tale of a one-day university workshop that changed the course of a galaxy, not so far, far away. Read it, decrypt it, and decide for yourself whether Jedi exist, and what they might look like if they did.