08/06/2025
This trip is ending today (apart from 4 more flights!)
It was a journey based on Search and Research.
Search because at 18 and 23 when I came here, I was searching for a direction for my life, I did a first vipassana meditation and took initiation in Buddhism. I believe that I had left a part of me here. For many years I had a recurring dream of a place at the foothills in the pine and cedar forest of the Himalayas, and although I wanted to go back, I was always told it was not time and it would happen later in life. This journey was a genuine soul retrieval. I met a Tibetan man who told me when he was young, he kept on looking at Annapurna from his village and would dream and imagine what was behind it. He told me there is beauty and meaning in the unknown. When he was older and could travel and see that behind it were other mountains looking alike, all the fantasies vanished. Similarly, after this trip some of that mystery I was experiencing younger has also dissipated.
A trip based on Research because I am doing a doctoral project on attunement and co-regulation. I was interested in traveling to remote areas where there is no electricity or wifi to relate with people. That was a big success that was beyond my expectations. I felt love and connection in ways I had not felt in decades. The purity, spontaneity and innocence of people who are not entangled in layers of ego (self-identity), performance, and protection was remarkable and ever so touching. I know deeply now what most societies are missing and I have a language to express scientifically what my heart had once experienced and was longing for.
I am grateful and forever touched. I saw what is behind the mountain and I also climbed the peak.
❣️🌟❣️🌟❣️🌟
