Babaylan : Filipinos and the call of the indigenous

Summary: How does one embody the spirit of the Babaylan? How do we heal from colonial and sexual trauma by invoking the healing spirit of the Babaylan? Can the Babaylan narrative be a powerful critique and salve for the psychic split of modernity? This collection of scholarly essays and personal narratives by decolonizing scholars, poets/writers, artists, culture-bearers, and activities, offer the wisdom and insights gleaned from their engagement with the Babaylan tradition and practice. The writers all share this belief: If we can articulate the Babaylan healing practice and Kapwa psychology as our intellectual, emotional, cultural, and spiritual capital -- then we have much to offer to each other, to our communities and to the world. We offer these gifts to everyone ready to receive the call of the Indigenous. --Amazon.com.

Record details

ISBN: 9781492247906
ISBN: 1492247901
Physical Description: ix, 310 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
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Publisher: Santa Rosa, California : Center for Babaylan Studies, [2010]
Copyright: ©2010

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Introduction: Babaylan work begins in the body: where is your body? Babaylan Stories -- Chapters: Our Babaylan-Inspired Stories: I. The Babaylan in Me / Sister Mary John Mananzan -- II. An ancient reed of wholeness -- The Babaylan / Katrin de Guia -- III. She dances in wholeness / Agnes N. Miclat-Cacayan -- IV. To our Lola's house: a pilgrimage to the place of beginnings, a collective family album / Ceres Pioquinto -- V. Babaylan Urduja, Imperial memories, and the Filipina diaspora / Tera Maxwell -- VI. Katibuk-an: My journey towards wholeness / Venus Herbito -- VII. Babaylan -- our Filipino spiritual heritage / Teresita Obusan -- VIII. Accessing my Filipina spiritual authority / Trisha Agbulos Cabeje -- IX. A deep listening: Inang Bayan calls me home / Karen Villanueva -- X. Fusion and fission / Michelle Bautista -- XI. Dawac/Action: A Babaylan poetics / Eileen Tabios -- XII. Decolonization and the Filipino Arts Community in Los Angeles / Marjorie Light -- XIII. Re-imagining possibilities: before their words / Maiana Minahal -- XIV. A Babaylan in Rome: an interview with Charito Basa / Marianita Villariba.