Salt for the Soul

Sit back for a moment and think of the time you were by the sea. Every time you stuck your tongue out to moisten your lips, you could taste the air saturated with salt.

Do you remember how bland your food was when you had forgotten to add salt? And the moment you added some salt, VOILA! Like magic the flavors seemed to have conjured up out of nowhere.

One of my fondest moments with my grandmother is when she used to ward off evil eye using salt.

Yet the most metamorphic remains the one from Vedic funeral rites where we send away the departed soul of a loved one from the earthly world into the spirit world by depriving the soul of salt.

After air and water, it is perhaps salt that is most essential for universal human existence. No wonder, from ancient wisdom to magical alchemy to modern applications, the presence of salt can be palpably felt across the world not just physically but also philosophically, metaphorically and symbolically.

Salt for the Soul is a ceremony to invoke the inexistential existences of oneself. Every individual has their share of inexistential existences, every collective has its share of inexistential existences. Which one should live? Which one should be sent away? Which one needs to be offered salt and which one needs to be deprived of salt?

This epiphany is designed on the framework of a rite of passage*. With the universal concept of invoking inexistent existence at its core, Salt for the Soul has been designed to have a highly customizable and contextually flexible structure.

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*A rite of passage is a ceremony that honors or facilitates the change of social, biological, cultural or psychological status in a person.