This has been in my mind since I read it several days ago. I wonder if the 36 are not fully enlightened, but very spiritually awake, and like me have the mark of cain and that I and them are part of the equivalent of the Jedi Order, which is my working theory because I do not want to be the only Jedi around. There's a full story on this being written in my split screens, one of which has been pondering your story