FROM LOS ANGELES TO NEW DELHI: AN EXPERIENCE OF INDIA’S LIVING SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
OOJ Foundation hosts Ms. Ringel for a special dialogue on meditation, Kumbh and a proposed India–US consciousness research initiative
NEW DELHI | 29 SEPTEMBER 2026
OOJ Foundation welcomed Ms. Ringel from Los Angeles, USA, for a special spiritual and experiential interaction with Yogi Priyavrat Animesh, OOJ Foundation, marking an important step in a dialogue on Indian contemplative traditions that has been developing over the past year.
A central purpose of her India visit was to experience first-hand what lies behind India’s ancient meditation traditions, not simply as philosophy or belief, but as a direct inner experience.
During the interaction, Ms. Ringel undertook a specially guided 33-minute meditation practice rooted in the Indian yogic tradition. She reported a distinct and immediate change in her inner state and described the experience as deeply impactful. The experience is being presented as her personal observation, while opening a larger question for systematic research: Can such traditional practices and their effects be studied through contemporary methods without losing their original experiential depth?
The dialogue extended to Kumbh and its deeper significance as a living civilizational space for spirituality, collective consciousness and human transformation. Discussions explored how Kumbh could also become a platform for a wider international exchange between India’s contemplative knowledge traditions and contemporary global inquiry.
Ms. Ringel expressed interest in continuing this exploration in the United States, including the possibility of developing a structured research initiative involving willing participants from her wider American network, which includes senior professionals and influential individuals from different fields.
Members of OOJ Foundation’s core team and professionals from the corporate sector also joined the interaction, contributing to discussions on how this initial experience could evolve into a more structured India–US dialogue on meditation, consciousness and research.
“India’s ancient wisdom should neither be accepted merely on belief nor dismissed without experience. Experience it first; then let disciplined inquiry and research examine what actually happens within the human being.”
Yogi Priyavrat Animesh, OOJ Foundation
The meeting concluded with a shared intention to take the dialogue forward, from personal experience to research, from India to America, and from an ancient contemplative tradition toward a contemporary global inquiry into consciousness.
OOJ FOUNDATION | NEW DELHI