"Hiringa i te mahara" is a poignant description of the journey so far in pursuing a PhD in revitalising traditional Māori knowledge.
It is rich and striking in meaning and metaphor aimed at providing a glimpse into some of the traditional ways of knowing and ways of being - of methdology and of output.
But here methodology are thoughts powered by emotion, they are dreams and projections of the self conjuring up both enlightment as well as darkness.
They eminate from within and from beyond, of travelling to distant horizons, and of calling knowledge to present itself in forms that inspire or terrorise.
In this journey, time and place shift and move, reality becomes unreliable, darkness comes from light and certainty can only be found in ritual and in practice - in the footsteps of the gods, and of the ancients.
It was these footsteps which traversed an ever changing environment at a time when heaven and earth were torn apart, of when gods climbed into the heavens, and when men fished up countries.
And it will be these footsteps - these remnants of their power and presence which assure me a notion of safety and of certainty for the journey ahead
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