Dádiva e Emoção - CCHLA - Universidade Federal da Paraíba

experiencing a trance. These sounds evoke a rhythmic
macrocosm in which we partake. In a way, one could
argue that such sounds are larger processes from which
we, as microcosmic processes, are inseparable.
The mutual contact Ana and I traversed while
immersed in her angelical trances was mostly somatic and
materially perceived. I therefore deduced that, potentially,
by attending closely Ana’s and my own sensational
itineraries carefully, I could perhaps gain access to an
enriched perception which could perhaps be traced back
to our own roots in life. In fact, some of the sounds –such
as those of bombs- that Ana could hear seemed to refer
to the tragic past of the Second World War. If in other
ethnographic cases I paid attention to the limits of
perceptual awareness and conceptual thought, in the
mutual contagion with Ana, I learned that there is an
irreducible void between the two from which new
formations of both are possible.
Ana has taught me that, as far as the conceptual
and rational way of being in the world perpetuates an
idealized disembodiment, one continues to refuse
corporeal and material forces – the very unconscious
impulsions that might actually rejuvenate our perception.
As a consequence, I allowed my own writing to be
superseded by Ana’s trances, by that which can never be
repeated, so that the influx of her angelical sensations
could virally infest my own body. Now, I know there are
dimensions of the human experience that cannot be
articulated by conscious experience or perceived in the
conventional sense, yet maybe can be made vibrate by
indicating somatic experiences that resist philosophical
closure.
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