Motion is relative. Travel is relative. The fundamentals of travel is not the shifting of place, but the change of consciousness.
To venture into a journey has always been an irreplaceable mean to ward off all the troubles associated with structured life in any society. However, between the journey as a mere distraction or evasion and the journey as a personal transformation, mediates a whole abyss. An abyss cleared only by Catharsis.
INDIAN PATHFINDER comes to life as a family proyect. It is also the result of an irresistible passion for a region of the planet that changed our lifes completly. In the last years we have made a nomadic livelihood, we travelled through many countries. Our sons have been born and are being brought up in different cultures. None of these have had such a trace on us as India. We have been enthralled by this country since our first arrival, back in 2001. Coming from an academic background, in our first journeys we “occupied“ ourselves in antropological issues, as well as journalism, maybe just trying to give a meaning to our wandering. Maybe just the bait that Life used for binding us forever to this land.
We travelled in search of the tribes of the northeast, in the lands of Assam and Meghalaya. We lived with the Sadhus in their caves, fetching the hermit´s wisdom. We witnessed pilgrimages as the Khumba Mhela. We walked along the last nomadic shepards of the Himalayas for months. We danced with the mystic Bauls of Bengala. We worked for the maharajas of Rajhastan, with their horses, the royal Marwaris. We met with the old dravidian culture of the south, who brought the worshiping of water ...
And our workbooks soon were left behind, silenced and overwhelmed with unexpected and ineffable experiences, insights, wonders. Treasures that carried us way further pragmatism. Treasures that transformed our being, that bequeathed us a new consciousness.
During our long term stays we received visits from friends and family. We accompanied them in simple journeys where we discovered that what was really important was not Where to go but How to go. We learned to live the moment in its pristine nakedness, to observe the beauty of what never comes back. To let go of expectations and plans ...
When all this took place,the magic of the journey would drag us into unforgetable experiences. We have witnessed how each person found its own treasure, living a true catharsis. Few returned back home the same.
Encouraged by the same friends and family who visited us, we made this simple website to make ourselves known to other people interested in experimenting India as a profound, life changing catharsis