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Ralph Pettman The dream that makes us free is the dream of an open heart the dream that there might be one world lived together while living apart.
Aikido and Enlightenment
Takeda-Sensei on Grading
Teaching Aikido. Take That, You Swine
The author currently lives in Melbourne, Australia, where he teaches world politics and aikido. An aikidoka since 1969, he is a sixth dan in aikido. He originally trained for fourteen years in the Aikikai style. More recently he has trained in the style of Yoshinobu Takeda, a leading student of Yamaguchi-sensei (who was an instructor at the Honbu and the proponent of a movement-oriented, collaborationist training method with a deeply spiritual rationale).
His e-mail address is: rpettman@unimelb.edu.au