Walking is continuous movement. Because of this, it is both metaphor and physical manifestation of jiyū shūkyō’s commitment: an active faith to the unity of being that requires deep listening and openness to change.

Done intentionally, walking easily becomes a platform for observation, thought, and even some writing. By engaging in a practice like the contemporary derive that requires a radical and new way of seeing the world, walking could help one embody a sense of positionlessness, which is actually positionfulness.

Because of its nature, walking is a critical component of my poetics and my pursuit of my quest.

Unsorted

Using walking to capture this subject involves capturing it in the perspective of a moving self that either walks in nature alone, walks across society, or walks across society in nature.

I shouldn’t look at other people in just one perspective.

See walk and talk as done by Craig Mod and others.

free-religion; free, creative spirituality that which “frees” is what “binds us together”

  • a strong sense of who you are as a human
  • a strong connection with the other human
  • a strong connection with the unhuman

This matches the patterns Phil Smith saw in the walking arts.

  • collectivism (pre-2008)
  • individualism and subjectivism (post-2008)
  • embodiment and the unhuman (now)