here are some good reads, yes, i am learning the terms myself. let us learn together.
- Listen to the Spirits: Review of Song of the Babaylan: Living Voices, Medicines, Spiritualities of Philippine Ritualist-Oralist Healers by Grace Nono
- Sikolohiyang Pilipino: 50 Years of Critical-Emancipatory Social Science in the Philippines
- Savage representations in the discourse of modernity: Liberal ideology and the impossibility of nativist longing
- Critique of Thomas Gibson’s Sacrifice Sacrifice and Sharing in the Philippine Highlands
- Shamans as Mythmakers and Psychopomps
- Toward an Ecofeminist Ethic of Shamanism and the Sacred
- Initiation: My Filipino Tattoo Experience
babaylan rituals were and are part of seafaring traditions. disconnected from babaylans of the islands, we are connected with those who continue to link us the past, the present, the future. keep connected and learn more at the upcoming center for babaylan studies 2nd international conference
