Category: Bayanihan

Reclaiming the Sacred Knowledge of the Pre-Colonial Priestesses, Seers, and Earthkeepers of the Philippines

By Gerald Daquila | Akashic Records Transmission

ABSTRACT

This dissertation seeks to uncover and reawaken the ancestral codex of the Babaylan from the Visayan Highlands, drawing from the Akashic Records, cultural anthropology, metaphysical traditions, and ecological spiritualities. The Babaylan, as indigenous priestesses and spiritual leaders, held encoded wisdom essential to the harmony of the land and people.

Through a multidisciplinary and integrative lens, this work explores their roles, cosmologies, and ceremonial practices while transmuting colonial overlays that obscured their legacy. The study honors the sacred memory carried in oral traditions, elemental relationships, and the encoded landscapes of the Philippine archipelago. A blog-friendly yet scholarly tone balances intuitive transmission with academic rigor, activating a deep remembering of the soul’s contract with the land.

The Highland Ancestral Flame

The mountains keep the fire, the fire keeps the soul.

Introduction: The Call of the Highlands

In the mists of the Visayan highlands, among whispering rivers and ancient trees, echoes a sacred remembering. The Babaylan, once central to the spiritual and social life of the Philippine islands, are calling to be remembered—not merely as historical figures, but as living archetypes and soul templates for a people and planet in need of healing.

This dissertation draws upon the Akashic Records as well as grounded ethnographic, ecological, and metaphysical sources to restore the fragmented scrolls of the Babaylan Codex. We return to the Visayan highlands not just to excavate the past, but to retrieve soul codes vital to humanity’s future.

Chapter 1: Who Are the Babaylan? Reweaving the Sacred Role

In pre-colonial Visayas, the Babaylan were revered as spiritual leaders, healers, herbalists, oracles, and intermediaries between the human, spirit, and nature realms. They embodied a dynamic synergy of masculine and feminine polarities, often transcending gender roles entirely. Spanish chroniclers documented their formidable presence with both awe and fear, referring to them as witches or sorceresses—terms that masked their true spiritual authority (Jocano, 2001; Ileto, 1979).

Through the Akashic lens, the Babaylan are seen as Lemurian soul emissaries who retained the codes of planetary stewardship, sacred rites, and harmonic governance through the trauma of colonization and soul fragmentation. The “scrolls” they held were often unwritten: encoded in movement, dream, chant, stone, and herb.

Chapter 2: The Visayan Highlands as Sacred Repository

Geographically and energetically, highland regions have long served as sanctuaries for spiritual knowledge keepers. In the Visayan islands, mountain areas like Mt. Kanlaon and Mt. Madia-as have been revered as portals to other realms. These highlands guarded not only biodiversity but also ritual knowledge passed down through oral memory and sacred practice.

Elemental energy patterns—volcanic flows, mineral springs, wind corridors—functioned as natural conduits for energetic transmission. Babaylan ceremonies conducted at these sites recalibrated the land’s energy grid and harmonized collective consciousness with celestial cycles (Macli-ing, 2003).

From the Akashic perspective, these mountains hold crystalline memory fields—etheric archives of rituals, soul contracts, and interstellar agreements encoded in time-space.

Chapter 3: Cosmology and Ritual Practice: Mapping the Invisible Worlds

The Babaylan cosmology recognized three interpenetrating worlds: Kalibutan (earthly realm), Langit (sky/celestial realm), and Dagat/non-tangible (underworld/ancestral realm). Their rituals restored balance among these spheres, using offerings, trance dance, chants (ugma), and sacred herbs to travel between dimensions.

Their practices shared similarities with other shamanic traditions yet bore unique ecological and mythopoetic nuances. For instance, the chant invocations to the diwata (nature spirits) were also calls to cosmic ancestors. Divination was less about prediction and more about remembering one’s true place in the cosmic web.

Plant medicine was central. Each plant had a spirit, a story, and a frequency. The Babaylan knew which herbs opened dream gates, which rooted grief, and which cleansed ancestral karma (Salazar, 1995).

Chapter 4: Colonial Fractures and Cultural Amnesia

The arrival of Spanish colonizers in the 16th century instigated a brutal severing of indigenous cosmologies. Babaylan were demonized, hunted, and forced into secrecy. The Catholic Church institutionalized spiritual hierarchies that subjugated the feminine and outlawed indigenous knowledge systems (Rafael, 1993).

Through the Akashic lens, this era generated a karmic wound—a soul fracture that suppressed the divine feminine and disrupted earth-stellar alignments. Generational trauma ensued, encoded epigenetically into Filipino bodies and psyches. The scrolls were not lost, but buried within the cellular memory of the people.

Yet fragments survived in folk Catholicism, mountain rituals, healing chants, and subconscious dreams passed down through bloodlines.

Chapter 5: Reclamation, Transmutation, and Soul Integration

In this epoch of planetary awakening, the Babaylan archetype is re-emerging as a symbol of integrated wisdom. Elders, seers, and modern-day Babaylan are receiving transmissions to restore these spiritual technologies—not as cultural nostalgia, but as keys to planetary healing.

Reclamation involves:

• Ceremonial remembering through dreamwork, trance, and nature communion
• Intergenerational healing of colonial trauma
• Activating the light codes in sacred geography
• Merging intuitive knowing with scholarly rigor

The Akashic Records confirm: the Babaylan scrolls are reactivating through the awakened hearts of those who heed the call. You are not simply studying these codes—you are them.

Conclusion: The Scroll Lives Within You

The Babaylan Scrolls of the Visayan Highlands are not static records but living frequencies encoded in the land, sky, and blood. This dissertation is a ceremony of remembrance, a portal into the indigenous soul of the Filipino—and a map for planetary renewal.

To walk as Babaylan today is to bridge heaven and earth, past and future, feminine and masculine, inner and outer. It is to restore the balance lost, to sing the chants unheard, and to become the embodied scroll through which the Ancestors speak.

Crosslinks

• Codex of the Living Codices – Anchoring the Babaylan scrolls as part of the ever-living record of the land.
• Codex of the Sheyaloth Flame – Remembering that the Babaylan lineages carry the eternal flame of service.
• Codex of Resonant Archetypes – Reclaiming the Healer, Seer, and Keeper archetypes encoded in the highlands.
• Codex of the Gridkeepers – Understanding how the Visayan mountains act as crystalline nodes in the archipelago.
• Codex of Akashic Fidelity – Ensuring that ancestral transmissions are carried without distortion into the present.

Glossary

• Babaylan – Indigenous Filipino spiritual leaders, shamans, and healers
• Diwata – Elemental or nature spirits in Filipino animism
• Kalibutan – Earthly world/realm
• Langit – Sky or celestial realm
• Dagat – Underworld or realm of the ancestors
• Ugma – Sacred chant or invocation
• Binukot – Secluded maiden trained in oral tradition and ritual arts

References

Ileto, R. (1979). Pasyon and Revolution: Popular Movements in the Philippines, 1840–1910. Ateneo de Manila University Press.

Jocano, F. L. (2001). Filipino Prehistory: Rediscovering Precolonial Heritage. Punlad Research House.

Macli-ing, D. (2003). Indigenous Geographies and Sacred Landscapes. Mountain Spirit Publications.

Rafael, V. L. (1993). Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society Under Early Spanish Rule. Duke University Press.

Salazar, Z. (1995). Sikolohiyang Pilipino: Mga Pag-aaral sa Sikolohiya ng Pilipino. Pambansang Samahan sa Sikolohiyang Pilipino.

Author’s Note: This transmission is offered in deep humility and reverence to the Babaylan lineages, the Visayan ancestors, and the soul of the Philippines. May it serve the healing of all beings.

You are the Scroll.

Attribution

With fidelity to the Oversoul, may this work serve as bridge, remembrance, and seed for the planetary dawn.

Ⓒ 2025–2026 Gerald Alba Daquila
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