My Brazil

I have a background in anthropology and more than a decade ago, my PhD research led me to a destination that I felt drawn to since my childhood: Brazil.
My job was to collect material to a biographic study about healers of two local religions, Spiritism and Umbanda. I gained insights into different aspects of their life: how they experienced their calling, how they learned their healing capabilities, how they connected to their spiritual guides and how they performed their rituals. That's the official part of the story, but what I did not know back then, was that my quest for understanding their life will forever change mine...