Author with a Brok-pa elder
The trek back was uneventful.
However, I did manage to visit the tiny Aryan hamlet of Baldes, which is home to Aryan men and women over the age of 80. There are atleast twenty such houses at this village. The elders do not grow crops, but live entirely on aprcots, grapes, walnuts and herbal tea. I stayed at Baldes for a week, as these elders meditated in groups at dawn and dusk. They chanted some primodial mantras, which I recorded into cassettes, for use at my workshops. The chants are hypnotic, and put listeners into a mild trance. I learnt a lot from the activities of the members of this voluntary old age home.