Babaylan Bruha Book Club Podcast

This chapter was a beautiful memoir about Lola Sebia, a celebrated babaylan from a province that is adjacent to Bayhaw, Hilamonan, Matama, and Camugao - areas encompassed by the mid- and southern areas of the Philippines - mostly Visaya and Mindanao.

1. Grounding Prayer & @50sec

This conversation stems from Chapter 3, where Agnes Miclat-Cacayan, shares her keynote address at the 2005 Babaylan Conference at the renowned St. Scholastica’s College in Manila. In this essay, she introduces us to primary Babaylans in Mindanao. Not everyone can get access to primary Babaylans. Agnes was able to establish and maintain relationships with the Babaylans before they entrusted their knowledge to her. The babaylan’s dance speaks to a holistic spirituality, something embodied and remembered deep in our bones and blood. In her dance, body and spirit are one. 

1. Grounding Prayer & Heart Check-ins @ 0:30 & 4min, 40sec 

2. Vocabulary words @18min 

3. Quotes @54min, 50sec 

4. Closing Prayer @1 hour, 19min

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In this conversation, Imee & Stephanie take a “Cacao & Kali” break to dialogue thoughts around recent events & healings that can be supported with ancestral practices via plants and martial arts.

In the late 80’s, Virgilio Enriquez conceptualized a theory called Pagkataon Filipino. It was part of Philippine "indigenous psychology", also referred to as Sikolohiyang Filipino, which is a psychology of, about and for the Filipino people. We divided this episode into 3 segments for ease of listening.

2. Confrontative Surface Values:  The Spirit of Survival - Bahala-na, Lakas ng Loob, Pakikibaka @32:05

3.  Associated Societal Values: The Pillars of Filipino Personhood - Karangalan, Katarungan, Kalayaan @56:46

In this episode, we continue the conversation from Babaylan: Filipinos and the Call of the Indigenous edited by Leny Mendoza-Strobel and published by the Center for Babaylan Studies. This is part 1 of a 2 part conversation. This discussion specifically focuses on the first half of Chapter 2, created by Katrin De Guia. It is her summarized acknowledgments of several globally celebrated Filipinx artists and their transformative works and messages. With these messages in mind, we dive into the question around who is truly considered a Babaylan in modern times.

In this episode, we continue the conversation from Babaylan: Filipinos and the Call of the Indigenous edited by Leny Mendoza-Strobel and published by the Center for Babaylan Studies.