An invitation from Our Own Voice:
Our 32nd issue is now online. We've opened our pages entirely on a panorama of the Babaylan landscape. Who and what is "Babaylan? For most of us it is a movement back to the indigenous past. For those of us away from the homeland, we hear the word and the sound calls up precolonial times but of what? Exotic rituals? holistic healings? Spiritual awakenings? All of the above?More information here.
In April 2010, a Babaylan Conference took place in California organized by Leny Strobel, known for her seminal book, COMING FULL CIRCLE: THE PROCESS OF DECOLONIZATION AMONG POST-1965 FILIPINO AMERICANS. We invited Leny and her conference organizers and attendees to continue their journey of epiphany on the pages of Our Own Voice.
We leave it to you, our readers and friends, to accept this invitation to experience an encounter in a vastly different landscape!
