Week 9 - Calvin Huang

This week’s theme of “Future of Spirit Realm Studies” is a topic that is not easily understood.  To really understand this week’s theme takes a lot of analyzing and processing.  For the article by Eric J. Ritskes, Ritskes takes a lot of information and gives his opinions based on what he believes is the right outlook of the details.  For me personally, I did not agree with some of his ideologies.  His claim of indigenous knowledge having to be fluid really unsettles me.  My view of knowledge is that it has to be static and universal.  You cannot have knowledge that is conflicting, otherwise it just becomes an opinion.  If two people cannot agree something, it cannot be that both statements are true.  Also if knowledge is not static, then what is the point of defining something when it can change at any moment?  Imagine setting a password on your account only to have it change at anytime, ridiculous right?  But since we are talking about the future of spirit realm studies and not about the current condition, maybe at some point in the future, what we might think of a permanent maybe be changed.  In this way, maybe knowledge is always changing, since there lies a possibility in the future.  Looking in the future is difficult to do, but as long as there is a future, anything is possible. 

My question is: How will knowledge look like a thousand years from now?  Will everyone have all the knowledge of the world stored in their brain?

Citations

 "26. Indigenous Spirituality and Decolonization: Methodology for the Classroom Eric Ritskes 411." Indigenous Philosophies and Critical Education (n.d.): n. pag. Web.  

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