Ceremonies to Illuminate Ancient Wisdom: A Conversation Between the Living and the Deceased.

Abstract

Here is a book that makes no concessions to ethnocultural stereotypes. Testimonies are indeed a testament to the lucid gaze that sees the profound significance lying in the ceremonies of the earth and of souls: the powerfully vital content in the “External and regular forms of worship”. It is also a tribute to those who have given their lives and deaths so that, ultimately, love and the Word that becomes flesh and spirit and the entire universe prevail, above or below a history of plunder and reductions (in the precise sense of diminishing the “house of being”). But it is not only a matter of affirming utopia by relying on exaggerated voluntarism that prevents us from seeing that where there is love, there is equally death, that where there is “return,” there is, at the same time, the impossibility of returning to the ancient places of being.