AMERINDIAN RELATIONAL SPIRITUALITIES. PRELIMINARY APPROACHES

Abstract

The Amerindian peoples preserve wisdoms and millenary spiritualities that are expressed in relational attitudes of community coexistence and in deep harmony with the cosmic environment. The indigenous everyday life is relational and integrating, where everything is connected: people, animals, creatures, cosmos, work, rest, celebrations, parties, dreams, births, deaths... This daily experience lived in depth, consistency and convergence in the divine Symbol ”” called with differ­ ent names ”” becomes spirituality. For Christianity such Symbol is the Mystery One and Triune, conceived as perichoresis or mutual interpenetration between the divine persons, theological intuition existentially experienced also by native peoples. This work, merely approximate, attempts to recover the Amerindian spiritual roots to share them as a valid proposal for anyone in search of the ultimate meaning.