Silvia Arce Herrera

27/08/2025

10/08/2025

Hace algunos ayeres, Canal 22 estrenó una barra de programación llamada Zona D, con producciones que me abrían universos enteros. Hoy la recordé al ver la película Hombre con H, una joya que celebra el amor, el ser, el vivir y el transformarnos. Qué felicidad disfrutar de esta obra tan bella y de la hermosa voz de Ney Matogrosso.

Ney Matogrosso, acompanhado por Will Magalhães (guitarra e direção musical), Berval Moraes (baixo), José Maria (sax) e Vítor Vieira (bateria), durante o lanç...

24/03/2025

One of our Guild members is a Swedish mountaineer. He disappears for days at a time and reemerges with messages written in the snow—prayer lines or snippets of teachings from whatever spiritual themes we’re moving through at the time. Recently I wrote about our immersion in the spiritual awakening testimony of an anonymous Victorian-era woman named C.M.C. It culminates in this glorious description of divine light, the same luminosity encountered by mystics and ordinary people throughout history:

“…It was the gladness and rapture of love, so intensified that it became an ocean of living, palpitating light, the brightness of which outshone the brightness of the sun. Its glow, warmth and tenderness filling the universe. That infinite ocean was the eternal love, the soul of nature and all one endless smile!”

It seems a few people are given a glimpse of this lovelight now and then so the rest of us can be reminded of its abiding presence. Our recent essay about the light is here: https://fireinthebones.substack.com/p/a-single-drop-of-light-a10

31/12/2024

Wondeeful ❤️🤲🏽🥂

Brad recently woke up in the middle of the night with a thought: "Pay more attention to the beginning." We just posted a short and sweet newsletter about it. Here's to conjuring dozens of new beginnings between now and midnight!

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13/11/2024

Me volvió loca de la felicidad, en sesión un hermoso pequeño, esta a las puertas de la pubertad ¡Qué bella magia! Los adultos tendríamos que bailar de la alegría cada vez que un ser humano inicia a mirar a los demás con gusto, con cuidado…con amor. 🥰💃

01/10/2024

PresidentA, que impresionante discurso contundente, directa y vamos todas, todos y todes. Inicia un buen debate ya no solo para marcar otro rumbo al neoliberalismo, ahora el patriarcado. Mi total apoyo como orgullosa ciudadana y amor sororo.🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽❤️

21/07/2024

Hermosa y honesta exposición 👌🏽❤️

07/07/2024

La felicidad hoy es conversar en un lugar hermoso con un ser hermoso David Sánchez y debatir sobre el SNI 🤣🤣🤣❤️🙏🏾

08/11/2023

Hoping to pause long enough to savor the implications of this verse, rather than gloss over it with my habitual scrolling mind. These words belong to Yunus Emre, the famous 13th/14th century Turkish poet and Sufi mystic.

Translated by Talat Sait Halman and found in his book of Yunus Emre poems.

08/11/2023

Note to self: “In the beginning of time, the Sky God created the world and all the living beings on it. Wanting to express love to this creation, God sent a song to each living being. The honeybee, giraffe, elephant, and every other living creature received a song, which was God’s way of delivering love. To send the song, an arrow or thorn was used to throw it through the air and into the body of the recipient.

Imagine God making an arrow, fully concentrating on the big love felt for all creation, trembling with ecstasy. Bending over, singing forth, God squeezes the big love into a narrow arrow or thorn so it can be delivered as a gift. The love of God, squeezed into an arrow, shot forth, and received in the body of a living being, is what brings life to creation.

The Bushman shamans of the Kalahari learn to imitate the Sky God, and by feeling a great love, they too tremble and bend over in ecstatic delight. In this trans¬formed state, they are able to both catch and throw an arrow, needle, nail, or thorn. . .

The arrows of love, God’s thin and sharply pointed holders of love, music and rhythm, are boiled, pumped up and out of the body, and then reabsorbed again, over and over. With each recycling, the arrows, needles, and nails are cleaned and revitalized, with the consequence that one’s body is also cleaned, revitalized, and recharged. This is how a Bushman traditionally maintained health and well-being."

- Bradford Keeney, Shaking Medicine: The Healing Power of Ecstatic Movement (2007). From the chapter on the Kalahari Bushmen of southern Africa, “The World’s First Shakers."

18/10/2023

¿Que será? ... el impasible amor ❤ en todas sus edades, formas, texturas...
Esta canción desde hace años me hace vivibrar con tanta fuerza, me hace sonreir y llorar, que belleza ir acompañada en tantas voces privilegiadas.

O que será que será
Que andam suspirando pelas alcovas
Que andam sussurrando em versos e trovas
Que andam combinando no breu das tocas
Que anda nas cabeças, anda nas bocas
Que andam acendendo velas nos becos
Que estão falando alto pelos botecos
Que gritam nos mercados que com certeza
Está na natureza, será que será
O que não tem certeza, nem nunca terá
O que não tem conserto, nem nunca terá
O que não tem tamanho...

Programa Chico & Caetano, série especial da Rede Globo exibido em 14/03/87 com Milton Nascimento e Chico Buarque de Hollanda cantando a música "O que será" (...

09/10/2023

Mi libro ha llegado… El enorme potencial del construccionismo social y el pensamiento sistémico Etfasis Mx seguimos haciendo proyectos con pasión ☺️