Posts Tagged as ‘babaylan’

May 24, 2009

Opening the Babaylanic Gateways in the United States

BABAYLAN CONFERENCE 2010
April 17-18, 2010
Sonoma State University, California

(See the buddharupa by the stairs? Happiness!)
Visit the Center for Babaylan Studies (www.babaylan.net) for more information about upcoming Spring 2010 gathering at Sonoma State University sponsored by the Center for Babaylan Studies
“We go down deeper into our rootedness, before there were [...]

May 15, 2009

What is a Shaman ~ Babaylan?

Image: tantrika.multiply.com (by Jonathan Cena)
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WHAT IS A SHAMAN?
by Mary Schmidt
A shaman/babaylan is:

– spiritual and cognitive epistemological mediator. shamans-to-be encounter raw glimpses of something numinous and demanding, some threat or promise in their own landscape of dreams. shamans not only read [...]

April 9, 2009

Center for Babaylan Studies

“…to provide a narrative that restores a sense of wholeness, beauty, and integrity to our pagka-Pilipino.”
BUDDHA NATURE & BABAYLAN ARE ONE!
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BABAYLAN CONFERENCE APRIL 2010
Hope you can make it!
ISANGHAMAHAL
EL OTRO SOY YO
EN LA KECH
NAMASTE
INTERBEING

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(link found on kathang-pinay.blogspot.com)
And thank you for visiting the new Center for Babaylan [...]

March 15, 2009

Babaylans

Babaylan – name given to the healers and shamans, wisdom culture keepers of the Philippines.
Several years ago, I found a link online for a program called BEAM, Babaylan Emerging Apprenticeship & Mentoring.  When I visited the Philippines in 2000, I ran across a group from Bahay Nakpil in Quaipo, and happened upon a [...]