Manifest for a Humanist Religio

In this book, we journey into the sacred spaces within our hearts, uncovering the light that shines from them, the very essence of our existence. At the dawn of time, the divine was within us, and through it, we communed with a Love that embraced all creation. Yet, as monotheistic religions and materialism took hold, we grew distant from one another, from nature, and from the diversity that once united us. We became strangers to the living world around us, whether human, animal, plant, or mineral, all bearers of the same primordial energy.

This book invites you to rediscover that connection, to awaken to the truth that we are all divine, sacred vessels of the divine presence. Reconnection begins with the realization that something vital is missing, something we sense deep within, a longing, an inexpressible nostalgia. Saudade.

Cidália Machado was born at the time of the Carnation Revolution, in the country where the Grall apported, where children played in freedom, growing up in the best possible conditions, dreamed and built by the Men who made the 25th of April the realization of the values of liberty, equality and fraternity, in a whole new and limitless world.

Cidália lived her adolescence in the eighties, in a cosmopolitan place. She belonged to a happy generation, the music was good, we were all handsome without artifice and we had fun without guilt.

Cidália has a PhD in Sociology with a specialty in Social Engineering. After many tours of Portugal and the world, she returned to her motherland, where she works.