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 walks. I want to facilitate walks that help others experience them, too. I want to use these walking projects to lead me back to deep reading and study of issues of spirituality, religion, and philosophy. The disciplined performance of this is my jiyū shūkyō.
Manañgili metalearning project
Why am I learning what I am learning?
I have two objectives for this project:
- To establish a robust theoretical framework and poetics for my walking-based interdisciplinary practice.
- To identify ways on how I could create creative artifacts from my walks.
Knowledge structure
Concepts
- Practice
- Walking
- Pilgrimage
- Pilgrim
- Pilgrimage studies
- Sacred
- Religion
- Spirituality
- Sacred geography
Facts
Pilgrimage
- 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
Procedures
Pilgrimage
- Planning a pilgrimage.
- Executing a pilgrimage.
- Writing about a pilgrimage.
Bottlenecks
Procedures
Pilgrimage
- 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?