Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality (Latin America Otherwise)

The term blurs the distinction between the real as factual and the imaginal as another kind of real, a fictive real.

“knowingness, that, once discovered, brings the world into harmony.

Conocimiento is a politics of embodied spirituality,

“imaginal” to refer to another aspect or dimension of reality with as much validity as the conventional, visible world to which we generally refer using terms such as “reality.”

Consciousness is the aspect of reality that is within a person,

end of chapter 2: “I propose a new perspective on imagining, and a new relationship to the imagination, to healing, and to shamanic spirituality.”

mixed genre which includes personal and theoretical essay, memoir and autobiography and that uses poetic and fictive elements”:

the autohistorias (self-narratives) of the tellers and the listeners, when it broadens the person that we are.

Storytelling is healing when it expands