Hi Je Kan and others

I haven't opened the Goma files yet while I get advice on the best medium in
which to view this.  But I was able to access your draft PhD work, and found
this statement in Chapter 3, which I think well captures the kinds of
discussions we've been having on this list around standards.

"I question myself at this point: Does academia present a fair and impartial
equal playing field for all forms of knowledge to stand with equal weighting
in terms of judgement of scholarship and hence legitimacy?"

I think the answer to this has to be no, academia doesn't have equal playing
fields.  Either because of methodological 'one-eyedness' and lack of
understanding, or because academia has excluded, derided or devalued certain
ways of being/seeing/representing knowledge.  That's why I find it cheering
that discussions such as those occurring on this list, from a variety of
practitioners and academics (frequently the same people, grin!)are assisting
with the scrutiny, critique and hopefully widening of what academia has been
prepared to countenance and support.

Thanks for the sharing, Je Kan!
Arohanui (with much love)
Pip Bruce Ferguson

-----Original Message-----
From: BERA Practitioner-Researcher
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rev Je Kan
Adler-Collins
Sent: Wednesday, 10 January 2007 1:08 p.m.
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Subject: Re: insight to practice

Jack you wrote;
  I'm suggesting that our visual narratives enable the lived expression of
our values, skills and understandings to be connected to analytic 
frameworks in the
creation of living theories, and that these enable the significance of 
what is being done to be communicated.

here then is my link to see if I can offer insights to a Buddhist 
prayer and healing service which takes place over 3 days and nights in 
my temple for world peace. I start after doing waterfall gyo, which is 
cleansing and purification and then the Goma fire is lit for the Fire 
diety to enter this dimension. It is a beautiful time, people come for 
healing and place offerings on the fire. There are frw words so I 
wonder if offering this insight hepls or conveys my values and 
commitment to them?
Please follow the link below nd select the medium of your choice.
looking forwARD TO ANY RESPONSES.
http://living-action-research.org/PhD_index.htm
lOVE TO ALL
JE Kan