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“The Stone symbolized something permanent that can never be lost or dissolved, something eternal that men have compared to the mystical experience of God within one’s soul”, says Carl Jung.

Doorway to heaven, place of healing, holy shrine, space of peace and power…had heard much more about it. I had to visit here to finally find out how I perceive Stonehenge.

These surviving megaliths have mystical powers, a story whispered in the landscape filling the air with a convincing field of energy, the slow walking under the renaissance sky in a circular trajectory seemed like a ritualistic dance and the structure is a timeless embodiment of sacred nature. I carry with me a magical experience which I would dwell in for years and the wonder and awe of this soundless yet vocal sensitivity.

‘Stop Dreaming, be more practical’ said everyone. Following the norms of the world would have meant accepting assumptions, prejudices and readymade patterns of everything that surrounds me. Stop believing that anything could be changed for better.

‘Round peg in a square hole’, was laughed at, yelled at and even severely punished for being different. ‘Try to fit in’ said everyone. My early life reinforced this idea where I had to alter myself to fit into an environment. However, as I grew older I began altering the environment to fit around my identity. I let honesty towards self direct me and my actions. Destined on transforming any situation that made me uncomfortable led me to believe in what is right for me and made me more authentic as a human being.
‘My Dream is a Seed whose reality is a blossoming Tree’.

A teacher once told me “Know Yourself”. Self-reflection has made me more aware of my views, thoughts, predispositions, objectives, and sensitivities. It has taught me to identify my talents and strengths keeping my limitations and weaknesses in mind. Knowing myself has allowed me to believe in my dreams. Dreaming has a quality of unfolding in an uninterrupted way, of allowing thoughts to safely brew within a private enclosed space. I am amazed how most of these thoughts have manifested into my reality. So ‘I Dream ON’ and encourage my young one to never stop dreaming. Plant a dream seed, nurture it and watch it transform into a reality from whose branches many more unknown realities surface.

I would like to think of 2016 as a long strand of connected dreams and sleepwalk into 2017 only to explore and manifest new positive realities.The picture taken by Richard Ried
Social Sculpture MA program, site specific intervention, Oxford

“Childhood is a Kingdom where nobody dies”
― Edna St. Vincent

My heart feels the magnetism of its own compass, guiding me in directions of unchartered territories this year. I am a vessel waiting to be filled by life’s new experiences, which I have only contemplated or imagined of.
This picture for me is filled with hope, innocence, without expectations, without worry, honest, pure and happy. There’s nothing to prove here, no land to conquer, perhaps a vision from my mind had been pulled out and projected on to this vast canvas of life. I’m forever grateful to life for allowing me to flashback at such meaningful and priceless moments, allowing me to live them through my memories every time I encounter just the opposite.

This inspires a few words from W.B Yeats

“Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a fairy, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping
Than you can understand.”

*The image is from an ongoing site specific research in the interiors of West Bengal, India.

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

Spring is here, offering these beautiful blooms and altering the landscape of this atmosphere. This exquisite sunny walk along the radiance of these flowers has created its own inner weather in me, activating some internal reflections about the interrelation of us humans with this vast biosphere. Our relationship with the weather and what change it brings with it, is so intense. We are sensitized and transformed by the seasons and our surrounding climatic atmosphere.

While most of us can shut out our minds and keep enjoying the sudden uncanny rainfall, artificial clouds, forcibly fertilized produce, rising sea levels, we cannot shy away from the reality that all of this imbalances the flow of nature, resulting in floods, storms, extinction of plant, wild and marine life. This era of Anthropocene, posits a weighing question to all of us. How can we act more consciously towards answering the pressing questions of human dominance on this planet? Is it in our capacity to take responsibility for the destructions caused by our biological, chemical and geological practices on earth?
We are created of nature and that is precisely why we are so moved by its magnanimity. Nature is constantly changing and we are part of it. If nature hurts, we are hurt too. The power vested to act consciously and transform exists in both, nature and within us.

Wish you all a vibrant, joyful day! 

As I nibbled on the puffed rice I heard myself say ‘I know this place, I have been here before, I know these people, the smell and texture is familiar, I was having a Déjà vu’ moment 🙂

My intuitions shape my experiences of life. I have learnt to trust my Déjà vu’s and dreams that take me to places, which my mind never imagined. I am surprised by the incredible encounters and new findings, new language, new sounds and words that carry with it a long history of deep-rooted culture. Human society (of which I am an integral part of) seems complex, on one side there’s hope, freedom and passion for life yet contradictory to that is a power hungry greedy side that wants to possess and control everything. We humans feed the entities that empower this constant conflict between the demons and angels in our social system. We feed them with our thoughts, our emotions, and energy. Positive or negative these forces do make certain shifts within us and we can only do what ever is in our capacity to either sustain or erase them. Sometimes it also seems ok to let things be the way they are. This makes me wonder if I have chosen the right path? When in such self-doubt, I give it some time, allow things to unfold slowly, until I pick up the signs which encourage me to follow your heart, connect the dots and fear nothing, the journey may not be easy but with the right attitude nothing is impossible.