Jason Interviews Author Gabriela Jurosz-Landa about her New Book

Jason Interviews Author Gabriela Jurosz-Landa about her new book, Transcendent Wisdom of the Maya.  Offering an insider’s experiential account of ancient Maya spiritual wisdom and practices, Gabriela Jurosz-Landa, an anthropologist, details the initiation process she went through to become a Maya shaman-priestess in Guatemala, including ceremonies, prayers, ritual dance, divination, the presence of numinous forces, and the transmission of ancient knowledge.   Gabriela explains the foundational spiritual wisdom of the Maya calendar as a living entity, its cycles of time, and the significance of “the counting of the days”, which helps keep time itself alive, and she also examines the power of dance and Maya ceremonies, Maya future-telling, and communication with ancestors through the sacred fire.  

Illustrating how contemporary Maya life is suffused with spiritual tradition and celebration, the author shares the teachings of the Maya to help us all learn from the ancient wisdom of their beliefs and worldview.  Because, to truly understand the Maya, one must think like the Maya.

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