The way of the warrior as a path to spiritual mastery the modern art of Aikido
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Authors
McCarty, Charles A.
Issue Date
1980
Type
Thesis
Language
en
Keywords
Aikido , Heroes (in religion, folklore, etc.)
Alternative Title
Abstract
I have chosen to view the major elements of material in this work; the life and background of the founder of Aikido, the role of the warrior's path in spiritual development, and my own observations and experiences; as a reflection of myth in order to universalize and subjectivize this basically historical evidence. History and personal experience as purely objective fact become dogmatic, limited, and of actual or potential reality only to the author and a few sympathetic or like minded people. As an expression not of inarguably accurate and concrete certainty, but as an example of the ongoing resolution of historical and personal tensions and conflict, I find mythology to be a part of all that I am attempting here.