Some places call you back again and again. For us, Nepal is one of them: a land of gentle, warm-hearted people, where spirituality is woven into everyday life. Here we held a series of workshops in the cafés of Lakeside in Pokhara, with Phewa Lake shimmering just beyond the tables.
Lakshmi and the pot of gold
Walk into almost any shop in Nepal and you will meet her: Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, often pictured with a pot of gold. Shop owners keep her close, because she stands for abundance. Her symbol, the Star of Lakshmi, became the heart of one of our courses.
The star itself is simple and beautiful: two squares with the same centre, one turned by 45 degrees. Where they overlap, a perfect octagon appears in the middle. Its eight points are often linked to the Ashta Lakshmi, the eight forms of the goddess, and they remind us that wealth, in this old sense, means far more than money: it also means health, knowledge, strength and good fortune. We drew the star together, line by line, and looked at it from a geometric point of view, alongside the other Hindu symbols it belongs to. Along the way we discovered that the law of attraction, too, is about much more than a pot of gold.
Can thoughts shape reality?
This is where the conversation really came alive. What actually is reality? Can we bring things into being with our thoughts, and if so, how? Is reality a kind of simulation that we can influence? Is it as simple as “think it, and it will be”, or is there more to it?
We looked for answers on the scientific side too: how the Star of Lakshmi relates to light and to electromagnetic fields, to the torus and to the sphere of sensation in which our reality is rendered, and how light becomes polarised, when its waves, which usually vibrate in every direction, line up in a single plane. Spiritual ideas and science, it turns out, have a great deal to say to each other.
From a vision to a drawing
Every manifestation begins with a vision. So in the last part of the course, everyone mapped what they would like to bring into their life, using geometry to mind-map their thoughts. And then we did a little bit of magic.
It was a beautiful afternoon of geometry and magic, with the lake at our side.
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