This novel is an unusual life story about a Kashmiri woman named Lalla. Supernatural at times and ordinary otherwise, this fictional tale also borrows experiences from the author's own life. Born into a Kashmiri family, Lalla is named after the famous Kashmiri mystic, Lal Ded also known as Lalleshwari. She has a twin brother, Abhi, named in honor of the legendary Kashmiri Shaivism master, Abhinavagupta. These two souls choose their divergent life paths as an exposition of duality, of light and darkness, positive and negative, evolutionary and destructive. Lalla discovers her life’s purpose to integrate the spiritual into the worldly, by experiencing, understanding and overcoming human problems in order to help others with their issues. Some extraordinary spiritual experiences are woven into the fabric of a pragmatic life, often unbeknownst to Lalla's family and friends.
The story starts with her soul in a heavenly dimension where souls reside, and also ends in a realm beyond the physical earth plane. Lalla and her twin are born in Kashmir and later move to the capital New Delhi. As she moves through a more traditional path, she gets married to another Kashmiri who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Readers will be able to relate some events in the story which are from the past and present, like COVID. Many amazing, mystical phenomena are described, especially as the tale pivots into the future. The narration about what’s yet to come includes natural disasters, wars, UFOs, and magical spiritual downloads from a higher consciousness that descends on those prepared to receive. Some aspects of the conclusion resonate with messages conveyed by aspirants of the new age spirituality. The story is truly a dance of duality, of the evolution of souls through the human experience, and how duality fits into the bigger picture of non-duality. Those who master both, win the game.
