Mission
To design and perform walks that allow me to encounter my kapwa, the co-operative society, and the cosmos in place while contending with history, culture, and politics embedded in those places and encounters. I want to create artifacts that honor those encounters. To use those projects as reasons for and triggers to deep reading and study and return to issues of spirituality, religion, and philosophy. The disciplined performance of this is my religious practice.
Manangili metalearning project
Why am I learning what I am learning?
I have two objectives for this project:
- To construct a theoretical framework for my pilgrimages.
- To find ways on how I could write about the pilgrimages (or create other creative artifacts based on them).
Knowledge structure
Concepts
- Walking
- Pilgrimage
- Pilgrim
- Sacred
- Religion
- Spirituality
- Sacred geography
Facts
- Shikoku pilgrimage in Japan
- Camino de Santiago
- Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico
- Lourdes in France
- Muslim pilgrimages
- Writer pilgrims
- Hindu pilgrimages
- Catholic pilgrimages
- Buddhist pilgrimages
- Shinto pilgrimages
- Sikh pilgrimages
- Tenrikyō
- Hare Krishna pilgrimage
- Jerusalem
- Kataragama
Procedure
- Planning a pilgrimage.
- Executing a pilgrimage.
- Writing about a pilgrimage.
Bottlenecks
Procedure
- Planning a pilgrimage.
- Executing a pilgrimage.
- Writing about a pilgrimage.
Reading list
Manañgili project reading list
Other research questions
- Any contemporary writer reconceptualizing the pilgrimage? What works have they produced?
- How does one perform a pilgrimage inspired by jiyū shūkyō?
- History of pilgrimage in the Philippines?
- Filipino writers working on pilgrimage?