So, what is a Research-Prayer? What are its contours and origins? What is the need to revive this term and concept? — I came up with this term instinctively when writing Senhora da Orada, where I wrote: “This is a journey, of Research-Prayer, which reveals and remembers chimerical beings as living and eco-mythological forces.” So, what is a Research-Prayer? What are its contours and origins? What is the need to revive this term and concept?

Boreal Autumn — The origin of the word “Autumn” as a phase of the year is debatable. It comes from tempus autumnus, possibly “sunset time.” It contains the idea of sunset, fall, decline, ruin, or the end of the long sunny days heading towards winter’s rigors. We now glimpse the fog of old…

Claiming the vital diversity of an ecosystem, there’s not just one type of psyche, but multiplicity, plurality, profusion, abundance and complexity. — I’ll start here with the Moths, or the night butterflies, which are most active in the dark and during twilight, guided by the moon’s light — in fact, intense light blinds them, making them lose their way, chaining their sensitive eyes. Their body is rounded and robust and, because they…

Many Gurus started out with the natural intention of “helping others,” but are easily swept away by the marketing of self-image and the cult of the individual. — Here in the modern West, we think that to be a Guru, whether spiritual or self-help, is to be special, someone who holds the keys to light and healing. It’s to be someone inspiring who knows things and holds the answers we seek and the meanings we yearn for.

A Gathering of Artists, Researchers, Activists and Authors, through Lectures, Rituals, Stories and Tales. — This is a pioneer gathering in Portugal about the need to intertwine Ecology and Mythology; about the importance of how we tell stories, be they personal, cultural, social, scientific or even political. ACCESS the Event here.

The Eco-Mythological Mountain Bloodline — First, a prayer, then a libation, and later an offering. To speak of Lady of Orada we need to dive deep into primal devotion and mineral body memory, not fearing the evanescent abyss. The heart-threads we will weave are frail and ancient, for we are venturing beyond the recent translation of this potent natural force and feral beings. …

Shape-shifting prayer — The polymorphic body dissolves and tears. Transforms and dismantles. Dissipates Unties Dismembers Disintegrates The polymorphic body needs metamorphosis to remain whole. To merge with Life. To aggregate to the ground. To break and emerge. Metamorphosis is inevitable, but we do not always have a cocoon. Life pulls and pushes Inexorably Swallows and spits Rips…

ESSAYS ON ECO-MYTHOLOGY — New book! My current line of work keeps me looking for stories of place, and myths, constantly searching for different versions of local folktales. One of my motivations to keep unearthing and recovering the submerged layers of my culture, is to rescue other ways of relating, different forms of telling stories, that…

Thank you! We walk in togetherness.