On Women from the Stories of Women, Gente de Centro and Many Others in a Dialogue with Maria Jose

I present here parts of the dialogue I held with the indigenous grandmothers and sabedores of Gente de Centro in Araracuara (Caqueta), and with Other women and men who inhabit conceptions of spiritual worlds rooted in the vitality of everyday practices and the respect for all beings: they show us alternative relational ways of life, very different from those hegemonically prevalent in the West. The issue that drives the transit of this road is to recognize the sensorial knowledge set practiced by the indigenous women of Gente de Centro and Other women and men committed to the care of nature and family, creators who are in connection with the land and the cosmos from a deep joy of being alive, within equitable and loving human communities.