| Rating: | ★★★★★ |
| Category: | Books |
| Genre: | History |
| Author: | Reynaldo C. Ileto |
If there is one book on Philippine history that I can re-read always with fascination, it is this scholarly work of Prof. Reynaldo Ileto, published in 1979. I first came across this book when Nicky Perlas of the Anthrophosophical Society of the Philippines made it a reference for his lecture during Michaelmas some ten years ago. The book is partly a historical exposition of how certain Filipino nationalists (like Apolinario de la Cruz, the Katipuneros like Andres Bonifacio, members of the Colorum, Macario Sakay, Felipe Salvador,Juan Magdalo and even members of the Lapiang Malaya) practiced kalooban.
Ileto defines loob as "inner being" which is "intimately connected with the ideas of leadership and power, nationalism and revolution. Ileto added that the attainment of paradise through hardships is also the attainment of liwanag -the light of heavenly beings also goes to extraordinary human being with transformed kaloobans.These transformed individuals have a radiating light coming from their kalooban that attracts other people. On the other hand, a weak loob is in the "state of darkness. Kalooban, liwanag, terms in the vernacular that mean inner change for outward transformation. To change the without, first change the within. He writes how the Catholic rituals of Pasyon during the Holy Week , even the belief in anting anting significantly influenced the revolutionaries. Seriously, our filmmakers should make a movie even a drama series out of this book.There is enough materials here for several historical dramas
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