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I originally began, and titled, this blog when I traveled to India for 6 months in 2011. I ended up helping the royal Panwar family start an organic farm, cultural conservation center, and hotel in the foothills of the Himalayas, 6 hours drive north of Delhi. Hence the blog posts from four years ago depicting those wonderful travels. I often think fondly of the kind people I know there.....

Happily I am continuing this blog, and keeping the name. My intention is to engage with and bear witness to the shift in consciousness I believe is happening all around the world. It is a miracle to be able to join people everywhere who are healing ourselves, each other, and the Earth through discovering the unity and the freedom of being alive.

On this journey though our magical world, we become aware of how we create our inner and outer world as one. Let us be true to ourselves, that we might inspire each other! Witnessing so many ways of life, we recognize to the archetypal spiritual forces vying for the world, disguised in the veils of our personal story lines and ordinary lives. Every moment is a sacred offering, when we decide which ones we serve.

I will be posting draft chapters of my first novel, "Otherwise What?, as they become available. Most recent posts appear on top. Thank you for reading :)

Monday, January 26, 2015

Otherwise What? - a novel



Among other things, on this blog you may read chapters of my first novel, Otherwise What?, while it is still in the process of being written.

Otherwise What?  is the fictional tale about coming of age in the paradigm of sacrifice. The pages are a light read, while addressing some of the complex concerns many of us face regularly in our lives: addiction, shame, creative angst, the challenge of integrating spiritual insights into habitual behavior, and relationship as initiation. The protagonist, a 21-year old recent college grad from the US, discovers, through her experiences with sex, drugs and flamenco music, many paradoxical challenges of being a privileged white female in the face of globalization, climate change, psychological breakdown, and internalized loss. Unexpectedly adopted into a squatted village in southern Spain, our narrator surrenders to become whole, finding through community, simplicity, and the arts, what so many people are running away from-  accepting that this is enough.

Feedback welcome :)

Enjoy!

Love,

Asra


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