@tshrinivas Would you be able to suggest three Universities or Institutions of Learning, Indian or otherwise, that have Indology departments or academics/scholars in the field who are true to the perspective you suggest?
'Many people cannot refrain from picking up stones of a slightly unusual color or shape and keeping them, without knowing why they do this.
It is as if the stones held a living mystery that fascinates them.
People have collected stones since the beginning of time and have apparently assumed that certain ones were the containers of the life-force with all its mystery..
In this sense, the stone symbolizes what is perhaps the simplest and deepest experience —the experience of something eternal that man can have in those moments when he feels immortal and unalterable.'
Carl Jung, Man and His Symbols, 1964, pg 206.
Photography- artist Georgia OKeeffe holding her favorite stone. Photographer John Loengard in Abiquiu New Mexico 1966
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