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My intellectual and lived path began where ready-made explanations, whether philosophical or scientific, stopped being convincing. My central concern has always been the mind itself; not as an abstract concept or a romanticized subject, but as a biological, historical, and fragile system that is constantly predicting, failing, and adapting. Philosophy, for me, is a discipline of remaining with questions, while neuroscience is a way of refusing to escape the hard realities of the body and the brain. What I have been seeking is neither a meaning to cling to nor a prescription for living better, but an understanding of how humans become what they are; how suffering is produced, how narratives take shape, and how the mind constructs a tolerable world in order to survive. Philosophy has kept me from collapsing into certainty, and neuroscience has kept me from retreating into metaphor, fantasy, or sprituality. The result of this encounter has not been comfort, but a kind of difficult clarity that gradually replaces simplistic hopes with the capacity to see more honestly. Nidrana Initiative Foundation was founded to change this. We build inclusive and free spaces for adults to slow down, reflect, and reconnect. Through mindfulness, creative workshops, and community gatherings, we help people cultivate balance, empathy, and joy.
Nidrana is, for me, a natural continuation of this perspective. It is not a brand, not a personal project, and not a hierarchical organization with founders above and others below. We have built Nidrana as a horizontal collective; everyone is a founder, and no one is anyone else’s co-founder. This was a deliberate choice, because it stands in direct opposition to the very mechanisms we wanted to move away from: the reproduction of power, authority, hierarchy, and the figure of the savior. We do this because we have come to believe that before humans need to improve, heal, or grow, they need permission to exist. To exist without roles, without imposed goals, without the obligation to be strong, productive, or hopeful. Nidrana is, for us, a space where the mind can step out of constant defense mode, where questioning is allowed even when no answers are available, and where human experience is neither glorified nor suppressed, but simply witnessed.
We continue this work because we believe that much of contemporary human suffering is not the result of individual weakness or lack of effort, but of living within structures that keep the nervous system in a permanent state of threat. Nidrana is an attempt to create a counter-space; a place where success is not the measure, progress is not the goal, salvation is not promised, and hope, in its conventional sense, is not sold. The value of Nidrana lies precisely in this refusal; the refusal to become an ideology, to offer formulas, or to commodify meaning. If time, energy, or even an entire lifetime is to be devoted to something, we choose to devote it to building such a space; one that may not change the world, but can make room for pause, for seeing, and for not being alone in confronting the complexity of mind and life.