Dancing with The Field: Bringing Joy, Passion and Play into Everyday Life

Indian born New York author Kris Kelkar experienced his first of many travels when he moved to the US, becoming a high tech entrepreneur with many inventions and patents to his credit, and built successful business based on communication skills, heart-brain coherence, the impact of relationships and thinking styles. His confrontation with health crises resulted in his marrying western medicine and complementary methods such as meditation, discovering the deep connection between mind, body and spirit. His learned techniques led to his current life as a life coach emphasizing the importance of relationships through his Third-Consciousness lessons. And this connection is the essence of this impressive book.

In his cogent introduction Kris shares his thoughts about early life threatening experiences – ‘I have since had many experiences where it felt like I was interacting with something bigger than myself – many have been magical, mystical and ecstatic. Some involve major life threatening health crises, others involve experiences of powerful manifestations that to this day I cannot explain any other way, and some are relatively minor experiences where I see evidence of the universe conspiring to give me exactly what I want. Examples include mystically manifesting significant business opportunities that changed an industry and my fledgling company, to the emergence of life-threatening diseases where I would have died had it not been for bizarre circumstances that led to surprising diagnoses, all the way to wanting a bottle of water at a workshop and a stranger coming and handing one to me without any sense of why, or days where every traffic light magically changes in my favor right as I get to an intersection. I now see these experiences as my dancing with what I now call The Field and signs of how much in its flow and resonance I am on a given day… Though my experiences have ranged from the profoundly impactful to what I would call whimsical synchronicities, each experience has in some way transformed (or continues to transform) me – to wake me up to this greater presence in my life.’

In this immensely accessible book Kris explains how he and his wife teach people to play the relating game so each person wins – relationships including romantic, parent-child, friendships and workplace collaborations. His thoughts are shared about the Field, influenced by both science and spirituality, that serves to connect us all in finding fullness and joy in this life. His manner of teaching is warmly compatible with the reader’s adaptation to his concepts and by the end of the book, there is a sense of enrichment and joy that provides a path to change, to play, and to emotionally and spiritually grow. Highly Recommended.

Kris Kelkar is a long-time yoga practitioner and an avid meditator who wrote this quite hard to get into book about something termed the Field and how one needs to learn how to dance with it to live a prolonged, contented life. In his own words, “he wishes to ‘share his experiences and learning so this book inspires the reader (that’s me) to explore this Field and acquire how it works and how it benefitted Kris himself.” According to him, there is magic and mystery in this Field’s paradoxical nature and how it will shine for me a direction to take to live an ‘ecstatic life.’ I have to be honest with you, that throughout this book I did get a bit of its message but the downside of it was that I did not understand some concepts (scientific) that he used throughout. I realized that I will just have to read through it and hopefully note some quotes from it for this review. I know this is just me but for others it may be different.

There was one section of this book that caught my attention though. This was what he wrote about what I deemed as telepathy that is one of the subjects I am most interested in. “Science is now validating that we each constantly transmit our thoughts and emotions through a field and this can cause resonant vibrations in those around us, resulting in the transmission of our thoughts and emotions to others. I was surprised to read this in this book because it has been an ongoing concept in my mind for so long. This notion that people can hear what others are thinking or something. I know that this book and Kelkar are specialists and are only talking from their field and therefore is not a universal truth but still.

Other topics mentioned in this peculiar book (it is to me) are metaphysics and spirituality and religion that acts to point people to “frameworks” where (on a human-sized scale) when we make we at times “act more like matter than energy—focusing solely on worldly products and topics. I recommend this book to people who work in psychology, therapy, and meditative practices. I think this book should be read by these people only because it is laden with terms that they only can understand. I felt disappointed when I was reading this book because I am not familiar with the main topic and therefore this book was not an enjoyable experience. I hurried to complete it and thus the three stars. But on a positive note, I think this could summon a lot of experts and yoga gurus and such to lengthy educated discussions.