In 2004 while in Lima, Peru, I was introduced to Parvati Rosen-Bizberg and her husband Jarek Bizberg. Instantly I felt a connection to them and was invited to come to Poland, where they have a healing center.

Both Parvati and Jarek have been very instrumental in my self-development. It was the nature of my teacher, Shree Vasant Paranjpe to place me in situations with individuals who could provide proper spiritual guidance and support in the transitions I would go through, along the way. One such place where I spent many months over many years is Bhrugu Aranya Healing Center, Jordanow, Poland.

"This place is magical. The energies here are quite powerful and the place heals you. Bhrugu Aranya is an ancient place of fire which has been rediscovered in this time. We feel we are guardians of this sacred site. Often Devas and Angels have appeared here."

It has taken quite some time for me to realize that following the spiritual path is not the end of the world as I know it. For a time I was confused, thinking I had to be a certain way, change who I was, reconstruct what goals I wanted to achieve, etc. Of course, this is all pressure I placed on myself, when suddenly it hit me, ‘you can be you while becoming a better you’.

Feeding the spirit is a very helpful way to fulfill dreams. I unearthed a new remarkable way to nourish my creative spirit, a path of strength along the artistic journey filled with amazing moments of peace and self-love. In those wonderful moments of silence I started to glimpse the storehouse of everything I needed to live life gloriously, joyously, and abundantly.

When one decides to walk a spiritual path it does not mean that one has to loose oneself to that particular path. As a matter of fact I feel there is a certain responsibility we should try and maintain and that is to find “What is my own truth?”

As I embark on conceptualizing a brand for a biotech company who’s focus is on purifying water, the nagging feeling that I ‘NEEDED’ to publish my blog post on water was becoming more prominent.

I traveled to Uttar Pradesh with Karin Heschl & Bruce Johnson, Homa Therapy Volunteers, to conduct a farmers training course on Homa Organic Farming. As is typical on our journey into the village we toured several farms and assed the needs of the farmers who are interested in converting to Homa Farming

This trip was especially significant, in that it was the first time I was exposed to the effects of highly toxic water on humans.

Homa Therapy is a unique method in that it offers an inexpensive potential solution to the water problem affecting millions of villagers, throughout India. Bruce, Karin and I went as guests of IFFCO (a national farmers's organization) and toured two village blocks, both of which have significantly different water crises.

After spending 9 months in 2003-2004 traveling from region to region experiencing the powerful healing effects of Agnihotra, I returned to the United States.

The transformation had begun.

The exposure to such incredible circumstances, both positive and negative completely changed my outlook. I was thrown into a state of extreme bewilderment by all the happenings on our Planet. I no longer felt apart of the day-to-day and my goals started to change. Still I made an attempt to re-settle into life in America, which lasted for about 11 months, when in June of 2005 I returned to India.

I was not completely free from my addictions because while in America I commenced smoking marijuana and drinking alcohol, all of which stifled any kind of spiritual development, or discipline I needed to remain totally sober.

“World of Sleepers”, from the World of Sleepers Album, is a song by a Swedish duo calling themselves Carbon based Lifeforms. The album mixes together deep and gentle beats layered with organic sounds and sublime messages of earth awareness.

The few words in this particular song for me, draws on the deep realization that western society is indeed “slowly crawling in the dark”; civilized humans are for the majority in a slumber, as if overdosed on generic sleep aids, unable to coherently adapt to the cries of an unhealthy planet.

The fitful individual is riddled with fear and if awakened to re-connect with higher consciousness, the feeling of being trapped and overwhelmed is instantaneous. Either not willing to accept reality or too weighed down by the toxicity of their environment, if unprotected and unsupported, often they return to being, “swallowed by the seductive night”.

The feeling I have when I listen to this song is that each day as it passes, only shadows the last with the clarity that two worlds are gathering more distance, the unconscious collective is fast separating from the conscious collective.