08/09/2024
How can the "human-physical" life be one's teacher? As a filmmaker and artist, prior to being diagnosed with cancer, I traveled to India for almost 20ty years seeking answers to the ultimate question, WHO AM I? While I do not feel one has to go to India to find these answers, I needed to venture as far away as I could from my conditioning to find my own voice. What I found were many things - love, connection, rituals, ancient goddess lineages, yoga, meditation, new friends, new wisdoms, new perspectives, but what I also learned was, this seeking for answers was always inside of me.
The photo is taken over 15 years ago in the holy city of Varanarsi (Kashi), on the burning ghats. I like to study life, so I can see beyond what people are doing, but what is the message that is being revealed from a higher, perspective. In this photo, I see spirit. Prayers. Mystery. The Unknown. But also a truth that we are all connected, and we will all return to source.
The question is what will one do with the life they have been blessed with.
Ahead of me during the next weeks are more medical tests & procedures and doctor appointments, I am hoping that I can stay centered within my own soul. And witness the light and inner wisdom and power that I have and always will. For this power, belongs not to me, but to everyone. It is pure source. It is all that is.
Prints : https://juliannereynoldsphotography.shootproof.com/gallery/23074552/