Anointed by the spirit of Kashmiryat. I so love this platform, and this image, just posted by one of the best reasons to be here, @Himalayologist. It _precisely_ mirrors my minds eye of this outdoor 'loggia', sunlight, shadows and all, when I stood there as a child, 47 years ago.
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Copy of tweet here: Vaibhav Kaul This part of Srinagar's Hari Parbat Fort is very similar to the Bhool Bhulaiya in Lucknow's Bara Imambara. Image of sunlit walkway-corridor within the fort. 6:05 AM · Feb 13, 2025
@krumbbumm Thank you so much. I greatly appreciate knowing more about the stupendous spiritual significance of that time and place and, indeed, its contemporary relevance to planetary psychogeography. Visiting Kashmir as a child, I was utterly transfigured by the land, its art and culture.
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Copy of tweet here: Image of Lotus with calligraphy. Ya Fattah. 4/ Cosmic initiation, a land-based, more-than-human experience, grounded. I see now, four decades later, I was awakened to Divine Beauty, as a child, by a pear tree, on the edge of Lake Dal. Image of pear with calligraphy. Pear Now I begin to know at last something you said to me. Orpheus with his lute made trees. Sacred, the wood garden. Hallowed, the impgarth. The soul is made of gold. Image of fruit, with calligraphy. The colors of the grove and the voices of the birds will restore immortality at the time when we shall come into the garden, thou and I. Rumi