The Dance of Light.

On her arrangetram, as she danced, something wondrous happened to Bilva… the audience disappeared and she found herself in a stage of great emptiness. She herself found herself dissolving, evaporating… her body became translucent like a crystal bowl, and through it a strange beam of light began to shine, filling her, nudging her… What is the body? Who moves my hands when I raise my hands? Who fills the body?  Whose light shines so I may know? Luminous questions… Luminously answered.

Like many who have had mystic experiences she has hoarded it, rarely talked it over even to the people she loves the most. In fact, this is the first time she shares it with anyone.

And often mystics keep the incredible to themselves. For fear it will be laughed at, belittled, and so the greatest truths lie buried as the more usual takes centrestage. And this is the challenge and opportunity for each of us to take the most spectacular experiences and set them as stars. It was almost 20 years after I had some of my most spectacular experiences, that they began to emerge in my art. And so I do not point fingers but plead, most of you who read this have experienced some incredible experience, some observation that opens a chink of light. Shove your foot into this chink, use yourself as a crowbar to break open the prison doors, there is another world beyond it.

There are mystics and psychics reading this who can change their very bodies, who have changed the temperature of furnaces with their minds, who have touched spirits across worlds, who have returned from death, who’ve wandered beyond the planet, some who have felt themselves become one with the cosmos… each of you hold in you an incredible glimpse, do not let it be buried by the ordinary. It is an ember blow on it, it is a key open worlds with it, it is a rock build a life around it… 

Some share it, some think of the freedoms it offers, some use it… some take it and plant it in their being… Please whatever you do, do not waste it…

{Bilva, apart from being a media pro, and a senior dancer in Akka Leela Samson’s School, is a mystic.}

Bilva's experience related to and expanded on by Tarun & Celia Cherian