Books Overview
The following books are all inspired by the place where the author lives, in a trekking lodge on Panchassee mountain directly in front of Annapurna. The above photo is tsken outside this trekking lidge in Himalayan Nepal.
SACRED. NATURE AND HIMALAYAN. WOMANHOOD
This photo book is created from the inspiration brought by the author’s marriage to a Himalayan indigenous woman. From a Mongolian group and living in front of Annapurna in Sidanee village, he first met her in her trekking lodge in about the year 2000. Yearly visits for the following nine years culminated in their marriage.
In the mountain village culture women and nature are the same symbol, as described in the most ancient Hindu texts.
Given the female gender of Himalayan mountains, village womamhood associate themselves naturally to the mystic holiness of this region’s nature. This book provides ancient Hindu text quotations to support the photographic presentation of this relationship between womanhood and nature, with other examples from elsewhere in Asia.
It is the unabstracted feminine self conception of Himalayan village womanhood that brings hope and sets an example for the future. Modern womanhood can learn this mystic aspect of Himalayan tradition to evolve beyond their present highly socialized self conception and integrate the mystic element that Himalayan mountains and nature are famous for.
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NATURE WOMANHOOD
This text book presents the ancient basis for the present living tradition of the feminine gender in Himalayan Nepal, named Shakti. In this book the original aspects of womanhood as nature experience are accented with a variety of black and white photos. For example, in this original Himalayan tradition, Daughter-Dawn has a human as well as a nature experience, both of which are combined in either aspect’s approach in this symbolism. This nature affiliation is a basis for their present Himalayan, multi- dimensional, mystIc womanhood symbolism of Shakti.
Simple nature-based yoga practices from ancient mystic Himalayan texts are given to combine the nature and inner experience of Shakti, the modern terminology used to describe the mystic union of womanhood with nature, among other things.
Finally the transitioning of a mystic feminine nature and self-experience, into a city lifestyle is presented. For example tall buildings are suggested to become mountains in the inner practice of a mystic nature experience evolving into a feminine self conception. This evolution is brought from nature into the city life based in simple nature-practuced self discovery practices that are to be integrated into a modern but mystic lifestyle. For example the ancient hiking-styled breath cycle named “churning”, found in texts from the Himalayas, is repeated while walking down a sidewalk. This integration occurs in a physical and mystic feminine manifestation that is universal according to classical yoga tradition, which can include a city life or any lifestyle. A final practical example of the application of a nature experience that transitions into a city landscape occurs when the afternoon sun dapples a mountain hillside. The same dappling happens on a city skyscraper. But practice is required.
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RESEARCH INTO NINE RIG VEDIC SITES IN HIMALAYAN NEPAL
These nine sites are living in modern Himalayan tradition. But their original association to the most ancient of Hindu texts, named the Rig Veda, is not known. In a visual Anthropological presentation based on nature symbols, this association is made. In this new methodology, a photo of nature is shown to be described in a hymn’s nature symbolism, that with other nature and cultural associations in the same hymn provide evidence of the Rig Vedic site’s parallels.
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RIG VEDIC ANNAPURNA
Mandala 5 Sukta 19 of the Rig Veda describes the view of Annapurna from meditation hut ruins on Panchassee mountain, directly opposite. The author lives here. Using a methodology based in nature symbols, associations in each verse are made using photographs in a Visual Anthropological presentation.
To provide support for this nature symbol based methodology, other holy nature symbol parallels are found in Asia (even Canada) and presented.
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Research Location
In this Research Annapurna is viewed from Panchassee Bhanjyang meditation hut ruins. This yantra view has a measurable outline and center. This center is a Rig Vedic Mystic Fire symbol and is still the holiest of mountains in Nepal with the outline of a flame. Rig Vedic nature symbols have a universal application. This research shows parallels from other continents and cultures. For example the Rig Vedic nature symbol of fire with its inner and outer parallels is probably applicable to other cultures of prehistory. In the Annapurna region, wood fires are used in village kitchens keeping this Rig Vedic Mystic Fire symbolism alive.