culion

"Beauty is a key to the mystery"

"Beauty pulls us up short, but in so doing it reminds us of our final destiny, it sets us back on our path, fills us with new hope, gives us the courage to live to the full this unique gift of life. It leads us then to grasp the Whole in the fragment, the Infinite in the finite..." -Saint Augustine

Our journey starts here in what we can recognize as meaningful. It’s like a sphere of history and science, of ecology, (or the indigenous people too) the portrait of an island called Culion...

100 years

Historically the Phillipines scientific achievement to eliminate Hansenites or leprosy in 1998 was manifested here in Culion which shares the same dreams and visions starting for a common mission in a quest for true healing and a new identity. Here lies the redemption made by its natural beauty and the mystical spheres. Thanks of course to the ecological reserves and its origin.....  Beauty!

Culion is an island situated at the northernmost part of Palawan. It belongs to the Calamianes Group of Islands, a strategic point; on the north the Busuanga Island, on the east the Kalis mountain also known as the Giant, on the south by Linapacan Island, and on the west the West Philippine Sea. That's why four ecosystems sustain the rich marine life of Culion: the islands, the mangroves, the seagrasses, and corals...

Today when you hear the word Culion it’ll simply whisper to you a meaningful logo against the backdrop of its past displayed now in our museum. But that scary isolation is now a cool word like “cool-yon” that offers a significant journey complementing with adventure or something you’ll remember the rest of your life. I remember some friends telling me about their tour in many places, they said go first to the rest of the world and make your last tour in this place and you’ll forget all those places that you've seen, but of course that’s an exaggeration until you encounter the place itself. It's some kind of a retreat and communion that can lead you to a garden of wisdom... ;) Many travelers have been in awe of the tranquility of this place because the experienced is not just about the views but most of all the compassionate kindness that one senses of harmony and peace that in the end you'll find out that this peace is all about right relationship with ecology and awareness of the environment in likeness to the call of natural world. The very reason of Culion's ecological realization that reaches out into something like a spiritual journey... or even sanctity.

Like Divine message of a truly unique gift, chronicled not only in our country but for the whole world that we would like to expressed this great joy of ‘healing’ which lots of people ought to know and must learn against the prejudices and misunderstanding if not ignorance of this so called stigma.. This is the message of the manifestation of dignity.

So from here we can now travel around Culion sphere and rediscover the whole new world called the land of a meaningful journey.

My love for this place simply echoes its message that's embedded in every pixels of all these images, just like the trillion trillions of stars in the universe and the innate or universal language that even alien world utters on this magic word beautifully;
I love Culion, we love Culion, I am Culion. :))

Saint Augustine who fell in love with beauty and sang its praises, wrote: "Man can live without science, he can live without bread, but without beauty he could no longer live, because there would no longer be anything to do to the world… we are to see a certain vision here, that no eye has seen, nor the heart of man conceived: a vision surpassing all earthly beauty, whether it be that of gold and silver, woods and fields, sea and sky, sun and moon, or stars…"