"Recently, I encountered a group of adepts, the Fallanassi, with a strikingly different approach to living in and with the Force, which they refer to as the White Current. They were once a larger order, but suffered from the attentions of Palpantine's purge.
"I cannot say much of the Fallanassi. They have gone to great trouble to cover their tracks and no records of them are known to exist. They are isolationist and seek only privacy. I will respect their wishes. I expect all Jedi to do the same.
"While they use a different term, and a different approach, I am quite certain that the White Current is the Force in the same way that Tyia or Allyan magic are also the Force. Do not think the White Current an inferior or superior way of conceptualizing the Force; it is simply another path in the forest of life.
"We Jedi consider the Force to be like an energy field, an energy that is positive or negative. We are part of this field, and interact with it. It guides us and we guide it. We control it, we sense it, we alter it.
"The Fallanassi have a different approach. The White Current is a stream that the Fallanassi adepts immerse themselves in, feel the flow of, and divert. This apparently minor difference in definition has profound difference in practice. Fallanassi adepts vanish into the Current and withdraw from the senses of others, even Jedi. Skilled adepts are able to remove and alter images of very large areas. They can reflect images off the Current in suprising ways and even create fully realistic images, at least on a small scale. I am not aware of any Jedi ability to do these things.
"The Fallanassi seem limited in other ways. I did not observe any ability to physically affect material. Fallanassi seem to have no interest in manipulating the physical universe and are more concerned with inner contemplation. This is in keeping with their studied detachment from the societies of others.
"This is as much as the Jedi are likely to need to know about the Fallanassi. It is unlikely any of you will encounter them. If you do, exercise patience. The Fallanassi can be deeply detached from our concerns, even in the face of overwhelming threat. They distinctly disdain involvement in galactic events, which can be a frustrating attitude."
- Master Skywalker's Comments to the Jedi Praxeum Concerning the Fallanassi
