{"id":6052,"date":"2022-10-09T20:50:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T03:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/?p=6052"},"modified":"2023-03-18T09:06:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T16:06:48","slug":"suuf-and-me-jayana-clerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/stories\/suuf-and-me-jayana-clerk\/","title":{"rendered":"SUUF and Me: Jayana Clerk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in .1in 4.0pt .1in;\"><b><span style=\"color: black;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6558  alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Clerk-Jayana-e1679155288741.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"179\" \/>Name<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: black;\">: Jayana Clerk<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in .1in 4.0pt .1in;\"><b><span style=\"color: black;\">Place of Birth<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: black;\">: Mumbai, India<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in .1in 3.0pt .1in;\"><b><span style=\"color: black;\">When did you come to the Verde Valley and why?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in .1in .0001pt .1in;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">I \u2018discovered\u2019 Sedona in 1994, resulting in early retirement from an academic career.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: black;\">I call myself a \u2018recovering academic\u2019!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in .1in 3.0pt .1in;\"><b><span style=\"color: black;\">What is your religious background?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in .1in 4.0pt .1in;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Born and raised \u2018nominal Hindu,\u2019 my journey has been an amalgam of various religions, histories of cultures, and world literatures. Being a global citizen is my driving force \u2013 sort of \u2018religion\u2019 for me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in .1in 3.0pt .1in;\"><b><span style=\"color: black;\">What brought you to SUUF?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in .1in 4.0pt .1in;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">COVID isolation created a huge gap from outside world for all of us, and SUUF happened\u00a0to show up!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in .1in 3.0pt .1in;\"><b><span style=\"color: black;\">How does SUUF fit into your spiritual journey?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in .1in 12.0pt .1in;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">SUUF principles echo the ancient Vedic and Upanishadic traditions that constitute my religious\/ spiritual background!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>[This article appeared in the SUUF Newsletter for October, 2022]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jayana moved to Sedona in 1994<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6052"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6560,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052\/revisions\/6560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}