Rememberings of a Congo Entotila, Guatucán Engangas Enquisas. Lo que quedó de Mwanicongos. The Spiritual Giants of Old Cuba, the “Jedi Master”. En la “cátedral” del sacerdote-brujo en 2004. Field antropology de un americanista en la diaspora religiosa Afro-Cubana. Dedicada a mi prof. Eoghan Craig Ballard, Ph. D.. From Ivy league rooms to the field…

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A note for my etnology students and so called “santuristas” From the Vault of times! December 2004, doing field researches into Cuban Afrodiasporic Religions, espiritismo cruzado altar detail of Mama Blanca rip, San F.co de Paula, La Havana. Those humble places looked like Versailles to me. I learned how spirit may give the power to…

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WHAT IS YOUR LIFE PURPOSE? What are you living/craving for? I dunno anyone who hasn’t thought about that more than once in life. That socratic question remains often unanswered or unsatisfactory ones are given. Are you a living One or an intelligent instrument? For me, that’s not philosophy but occultism, a jump into the Unknown.…

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“My fundamental interest, I suppose, is signs and proofs of other powers that lie hidden in us all; the extension, in other words, of human faculty. So many of my stories, therefore, deal with extension of consciousness; speculative and imaginative treatment of possibilities outside our normal range of consciousness…. Also, all that happens in our…

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THE LEPER KNIGHTS WITH EMERALD CROSS The Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem, also known as the Leper Brothers of Jerusalem or simply as Lazarists, was/is a Christian military order founded by crusaders around 1098-1119 at a leper hospital in Jerusalem, Kingdom of Jerusalem, whose care became its original purpose, named after…

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Para el dia de San Lazaro Bendito, (17 diciembre) salud a todos. Todo es salud. Tremendo tesoro es la salud. Hay que agradecer y estar agradecidos. Alabado sea San Lazaro por sus milagros bondadosos. Por la Divina Misericordia. Porque la maldad también es una enfermedad. Y que el Milagroso Lazaro, Nos ayude con su amparo…

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