IDO MOVEMENT FOR CULTURE

This work discusses the subject of a scientific trip from a semiotic perspective. It presents the scientific congress (AIESEP World Congress 2014) and a critical review of it; a journey of cultural symbolism; and remarks and impressions of staying in a distant country. In addition, a meeting with the proto-forms of martial arts and considerations concerning the social reception of martial arts in today’s New Zealand justify the purpose of this trip also in terms of martial arts tourism, though not to practise, but for research. The authors suggest a schematic approach to the symbolism of the stages of social development, in which resignation of the noble principles leads to moral and civilizational regression. Additionally, some contemporary fashionable ideologies cause regression in the spiritual development of humanity and go back to the typhonic level on K. Wilber’s scale.