Idiwira: A Living Epistemology

Part 3 of Final PhD Performative Lecture titled Idiwira: A Living Epistemology.
Approaching the construction and delivery of a lecture through the living epistemological methodology that I work with requires and utilizes a holistic approach. In this approach, I am inviting, bringing and utilizing not only my whole body and self in the methodological approach; I am also working in ways that remain fundamentally grounded and linked to that which is beyond the self, that is to the spiritual realms of connection. In other words, I am not only in intellectual thought in framing and building the Arnya lecture, but I am also in spirit talk with self as well as the collective of kinship in terms of information exchange, retrieval, building and utilization. This is what positions the Arnya lecture in its own specific genre category. This is also where the power of voice lies (p.162 Wirrer-George. 2021