The Yogini With a Thousand Eyes

Shaped by her yogic practices, Annajoy carries on an elegant meditative dance with the unremarkable trivial events occurring during her daily life in Amsterdam. Using imagination and reverie, she discovers mysterious minidramas enacted by characters more cleverly disguised than revelers during Carnival. In her evolved consciousness, Amsterdam becomes an art gallery, funhouse and more-than-human community, where meaning is a daily event, and oases of mood catapult her into moments of ecstasy. Despite courageous efforts, Annajoy tragically fails to inspire others to explore this unsuspected dimension of daily life. Could her city help? Or must Annajoy live surrounded by people who see Amsterdam as a den of ordinary streets and canals, littered with meaningless trivia gesturing in the wind? Here is a story of one woman crossing a spiritual frontier that offers a glimpse, not only of her and her city but, as in Escher’s ball, an unusual view of ourselves and the cities we live in.