OIA
JOURNAL
A collection of stories and
reflections focused on
wellness, spirituality,
society and culture.
During the last long month that I have been in the field, I have been tying up dots. Deeply understanding the process that I have been having throughout my life and the small processes that have developed through it. OIA was born precisely as a questioning of how we inhabit the Earth, and from there we observe how we inhabit our bodies, our homes, our country, and even how we inhabit the cosmos. If we start from the fact that everything in the Universe, Multiverse, is part of an action-reaction, cause-effect, we can realize that we are partakers of existence itself. Not only of the existence of life as we know it, but at all levels of consciousness and transcendence that goes beyond what the rational mind can understand, and it is there where we permeate the Universe of the Spirit, of the intangible in this physical plane.
As a child, seeing myself fascinated by the nature that surrounded me growing up, I knew that I was going to work on something, when I grew up, that had to do with Nature. I said I was going to be a veterinarian, because I had a certain magnetism with animals, I always picked them up on the street and they followed me wherever I went. I spent my days up in the trees, with the ducks, the rabbits, the dogs, they were all my best friends. This sensitivity, I don’t know how or when it developed, or if I was born with it, it probably was. In the same way, I was very sensitive to the energies that surrounded me, sometimes I went into states of panic, because there were things that I could not explain with the rational mind, which led me to experience very strong emotions and feelings that overwhelmed me. During my adolescence, trying to escape my sensitivity, since I am a hyper empathic person, I developed a shield and with it, I immersed myself in a rather superficial world, which revolved around social relations and especially the high abuse of liquor. I found stormy and damaging relationships, starting with the one I had with myself.
When I was in the process of deciding what to study at the University, since going to university was not questioned in my house, my parents told me that I should study engineering like my brother. Inside my young and confused mind, I had no idea where I wanted to go, what I did know, because I always knew, is that it had to do with nature. So it was there that I knew that I was going to study Environmental Engineering, since it was an engineering and had to do with the environment.
Upon graduating from college, I began my gap year in Paris, France. A year to continue deepening in that superficial world, use the paradox; a lot of partying, excesses, but where I could experience living in another culture, open my eyes to the world in a different way. In the capital of arts and culture, I immersed myself in museums, in cultural activities, traveled to incredible places full of history and even remote places like Iceland. I expanded my mind and my horizons in a thousand ways and I could begin to know a little more.
My first semesters of the University, in Bogotá, were quite difficult, I lacked dedication, because I did not find passion in what I was studying, and it was there that I decided to start my option (minor) in Biology. A new world opened before my eyes. I knew that I was born for that, that I was born to study Nature. I had not become the most applied yet, but I was able to enter the enjoyment and find that inner flame that was more burning than ever when reading, listening, experimenting with nature. After one semester, I started Biology as my second career and not just as an option. A few semesters later, after having completed the basic cycle of Biology, having traveled to the eastern plains to look for bulbils in the morichales (oasis of the Colombian Orinoquía), anacondas, having caught and studied bats, after having been attacked by animals the most voracious that I have ever known, the coloraditos ( https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trombiculidae ); After diving with sharks in Providencia and searching for the smallest invertebrate on the island, I decided to go on an exchange to Australia. At that moment, something very interesting had happened in my life, I had found a practice that had captivated me and in which day after day I saw myself inhabiting and transforming myself through it, yoga.
Australia had been on my mind for many years, I still didn’t understand why, I knew very little about the country, I thought it was a desert island by the sea, but I didn’t know anything else. So much so that when I arrived in Sydney, I was surprised to find a cold and rainy city, because in the deserts it does not rain as much. After a semester in Sydney, I decided to transfer from University and finish my studies there, now in Environmental Engineering and Marine Sciences, because the sea had always been one of my passions, so much so that
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Laura Conde | May 12
During the last long month that I have been in the field, I have been tying up dots. Deeply understanding the process that I have been having throughout my life and the small processes that have developed through it. OIA was born precisely as a questioning of how we inhabit the Earth, and from there we observe how we inhabit our bodies, our homes, our country, and even how we inhabit the cosmos. If we start from the fact that everything in the Universe, Multiverse, is part of an action-reaction, cause-effect, we can realize that we are partakers of existence itself. Not only of the existence of life as we know it, but at all levels of consciousness and transcendence that goes beyond what the rational mind can understand, and it is there where we permeate the Universe of the Spirit, of the intangible in this physical plane.
As a child, seeing myself fascinated by the nature that surrounded me growing up, I knew that I was going to work on something, when I grew up, that had to do with Nature. I said I was going to be a veterinarian, because I had a certain magnetism with animals, I always picked them up on the street and they followed me wherever I went. I spent my days up in the trees, with the ducks, the rabbits, the dogs, they were all my best friends. This sensitivity, I don’t know how or when it developed, or if I was born with it, it probably was. In the same way, I was very sensitive to the energies that surrounded me, sometimes I went into states of panic, because there were things that I could not explain with the rational mind, which led me to experience very strong emotions and feelings that overwhelmed me. During my adolescence, trying to escape my sensitivity, since I am a hyper empathic person, I developed a shield and with it, I immersed myself in a rather superficial world, which revolved around social relations and especially the high abuse of liquor. I found stormy and damaging relationships, starting with the one I had with myself.
When I was in the process of deciding what to study at the University, since going to university was not questioned in my house, my parents told me that I should study engineering like my brother. Inside my young and confused mind, I had no idea where I wanted to go, what I did know, because I always knew, is that it had to do with nature. So it was there that I knew that I was going to study Environmental Engineering, since it was an engineering and had to do with the environment.
Upon graduating from college, I began my gap year in Paris, France. A year to continue deepening in that superficial world, use the paradox; a lot of partying, excesses, but where I could experience living in another culture, open my eyes to the world in a different way. In the capital of arts and culture, I immersed myself in museums, in cultural activities, traveled to incredible places full of history and even remote places like Iceland. I expanded my mind and my horizons in a thousand ways and I could begin to know a little more.
My first semesters of the University, in Bogotá, were quite difficult, I lacked dedication, because I did not find passion in what I was studying, and it was there that I decided to start my option (minor) in Biology. A new world opened before my eyes. I knew that I was born for that, that I was born to study Nature. I had not become the most applied yet, but I was able to enter the enjoyment and find that inner flame that was more burning than ever when reading, listening, experimenting with nature. After one semester, I started Biology as my second career and not just as an option. A few semesters later, after having completed the basic cycle of Biology, having traveled to the eastern plains to look for bulbils in the morichales (oasis of the Colombian Orinoquía), anacondas, having caught and studied bats, after having been attacked by animals the most voracious that I have ever known, the coloraditos ( https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trombiculidae ); After diving with sharks in Providencia and searching for the smallest invertebrate on the island, I decided to go on an exchange to Australia. At that moment, something very interesting had happened in my life, I had found a practice that had captivated me and in which day after day I saw myself inhabiting and transforming myself through it, yoga.
Australia had been on my mind for many years, I still didn’t understand why, I knew very little about the country, I thought it was a desert island by the sea, but I didn’t know anything else. So much so that when I arrived in Sydney, I was surprised to find a cold and rainy city, because in the deserts it does not rain as much. After a semester in Sydney, I decided to transfer from University and finish my studies there, now in Environmental Engineering and Marine Sciences, because the sea had always been one of my passions, so much so that