013: BABAYLAN, Ch. 9 - "A Deep Listening - Inang Bayan Calls Me Home"
Description
In this narrative, Karen Villanueva's succinct & specific opener caught our eyes and ears. It raised the questioning of the Filipinx conventionally conditioned life. Is it supposedly only about going to school, attending college to become a doctor/nurse/lawyer, then marry a (white) man, and settling down with a family?
In this chapter, we discuss how Ate Karen shares her immigration, assimilation, recognition, healing, and remembrance journey. She writes this piece while called back to live in the motherland; after having left her nursing profession, a marriage, a comfortable existence to follow her inner call to wholeness, which included healing generational grief in the family.
After spending time in places, workshops, centers, and practices - she speaks of living a life of what the Katipuneros called KALAYAAN, or Freedom, which she claims as the basis of her spiritual practice. In addition, we discuss how Ate Karen's wisdom translates an eastern medicine practice, MEDITATION into a Tagalog word: PANHINGALAY (pahinga = rest, stillness; hinga = breath; alay = offering, gift).
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1. Grounding Prayer & @ 3min, 13sec
2. Heart Check-in @ 3min, 40sec
3. Chapter Overview @ 16min
4. Vocabulary Words @ 21min,10sec
5. Quotes @ 31min
6. Closing Prayer @ 1 hour, 25min, 3sec
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