I am a Healer, Writer and Graduate.
I was born on October 26, 1977 in Birmingham U.K. to first generation immigrant Hindu parents from Kenya Nairobi, Africa and Punjab Jalandhar India. I have one older brother.
I was one of the first non Roman Catholics to enter my junior school and in 1989 I entered a Grammar School after passing my 11+. My brother also attended the same schools as me. My parents worked in the U.K. as a bus driver (father) and frozen foods retailer (mother) before divorcing in 1988. My father moved to London and me and my brother lived with our mother who moved on to study an MBA and enter the world of business as me and my brother studied Karate and my brother moved on to become a Karate Instructor.
I was School Captain of my Grammar School and played Hockey and Cricket (sports my brother played also) and took an interest in Religious Studies and English at A-Level to pass my Oxford entrance exams and matriculate into St Hugh’s College in 1996. Whilst at Oxford I mixed with Amal Clooney and Rishi Sunak and also spent time with British Journalist Ben Wright of the BBC. I was President of the Oxford Majlis Asian Society for the 50th year of Indian Independence in 1997 and spent my free time working with inner city students broadening access to university with the Oxford Access Scheme.
I came top of my first year examinations and also was awarded a Scholarship in my final year for continued academic excellence.
In 1997 I joined my brother at The Church of Scientology in Birmingham; something my mother had been involved in. We were excommunicated from the Church which was not a religion in the UK as I left university to work there and I returned to Oxford in 1998 to complete my degree.
In 1999 I was awarded a training contract with Gouldens law firm to start in 2002 while attending the career’s service at Oxford University. I moved to London in 2002 to study at the College of Law (now The Univesity of Law) and studied the Postgraduate Diploma in Law and the Legal Practice Course while living with actors in Maida Vale in London. I lived with actors from LAMDA and Central School of Speech and Drama, Paul Ready, Bryan Dick and Simon Quarterman who have all moved on to become famous in their own right. Until recently and experiencing time constraints, I have maintained a healthy interest i Hollywood and have gone to the cinema regularly with my mum and have enjoyed independent film at The Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham.
I took part in drug experiences after finishing Oxford with a 2:1 and smoked Marijuana regularly while studying spirituality and expanding on the esoteric ideas I had for literature while an undergraduate at Oxford. My blogs are an attempt to make sense of this shift of awareness from the safety of school and also explore my Bipolar Disorder – something I was diagnosed with in 2013 but obviously suffered much before then, not really applying myself to conventional English thinking and taking time off from legal studies to rest at home and experience depression in London while exploring the writings and videos of J Krishnamurti to make myself feel better and less alienated and alone in the world.
In 2002 I had a nervous breakdown while in India and experienced an energy with divine importance while at my father’s house in Jalandhar with my grandfather who had a Ball Bearing industry that my father left the UK to run in 2000. My mother and brother came out to India to meet me and when I came home during the summer of 2002 there were a lot of phone calls from India about my astrological records expressing awe and wonder about my status and stating that very large prayers were being done for me. I do not understand Hindi so could not take the phone and only my mother and brother were around to help me understand the commands from India to expand my consciousness and experience past lives and the interconnectedness of all life.
I have visited Vrindavan in India and bathed in the Ganges and have undertaken a research project into studying the Bhagavad Gita some 50 times listening to it in Sanskrit while following the English translation during the years 2014-2018. I would chant the Mahamantra from 4-6 in the morning and from 4-6 in the evening and read most of Srila Prabhupada’s books in an effort to understand my mental health diagnosis as thinking I was a “hindu incarnation of God” and someone who used to be a Scientologist and was experiencing mental health problems with Bipolar Disorder in 2013. I went to hospital 4 times and was sectioned under the guidance of my mother as my brother looked on in fear at the way the British Psychiatric tradition handled me. They did not talk to me about my life and were heavy handed with me and rough shod about taking my medication.
This period of bad mental health was sparked by the loss of my career at Goudlens in 2003. The law firm I had joined had about 200 staff but when I turned up after my period of religious experiences in India in 2002 in Februrary 2003, the firm had merged with an American firm and had 1500 staff. I lasted 3 months at the firm and left in 2003. I write about the mental health struggles I had as an unemployed person from 2003 to 2010 in my articles and how again the NHS was involved in my life but did not explain to me the relationship between cause and effect and how my circumstances led to me being diagnosed with depression in 2003.
In 2009 I applied to a British University in London to study a Masters in English and was awarded a place at Queen Mary University to study spirituality in relation to the works of E M Forster and T S Eliot. I planned to move on to study a PhD at Oxford afterwards. I was unable to start the course due to a lack of funds and left London in 2011 to move back home to Birmingham.
In 2015 I started writing poetry and in 2017 I wrote 2 novels about a British Asian heroine working as a lawyer in London. I published books independently on Amazon until I lost my contract with Amazon due to marketing restrictions.
In 2026 I started work at an IT company working in 1st line support.
My blog is an attempt to come to terms with three things that I have had experience of in my life and help researchers read my poetry in terms of an expanded field of awareness that provides biographical information to help with literary context. I have had experience in school and university with how academics and British universities write books about poets and novelists and explore their roots and cultural traditions to explain racial boundaries and the relationship between life and art. My blogs and articles are an attempt to restrict this field and get my literature studied now rather than in decades times and to provide boundaries so that my integrity is maintained and my family is respected. The three things I study are:
- The role of the spiritual and postmodern cult of the American guru Andrew Cohen called EnlightenNext. I studied this cult online after losing my career with Jones Day in 2003 and watched a lot of social media and YouTube videos taking in the careers of famous people such as Dr Deepak Chopra, Dr Wayne Dyer and Marianne Williamson. I explored modern spirituality and broadened my horizons and was surprised when I moved to London in 2010 to find they had a base in London, in Zone 1 at Angel Islington with a large building that must have cost a lot of money. I saw Andrew Cohen speak 3 times and explored modern ideas of spirituality with members there over the course of the year I was studying in London.
- I came about to study English Literature in my own way while at King Edwards Grammar School in 1994-1996 and did very well in my A-Levels and created my own way of studying English Literature with independent thinking and by focussing on ideas contained in the books and not the convention or accessing the imagination about stories about people and the places they visit. This focus on context lead me to live independently at Oxford and not to go to lectures and to just meet tutors for 2 hours a week while studying to write 2 essays a week over the 3 eight week terms while I was there. My year out at Scientology between 1997-1998 made me return with a new focus on language and to see how the texts worked and operated as expressions of the English language and not as part of a great English tradition of story telling we had been inducted to believe in our first year at Oxford. This method of enquiry was revealed to me by Lord Jesus to be studying Theosophy as higher thinking in 2014 as I underwent many years of penance an enquiry to understand myself after mental health diagnosis. I would focus on writing my own ideas at university and struggled to remember what happened in the texts and found poetry hard to read for metre and rhythm. I have published my own poetry online and hope that it is researched as something that is vibrant and new and does away with the need to study the English literary canon and has interational appeal to help people get into poetry in the here and now who would otherwise have found traditional English verse tiresome and difficult to read.
- My life has taken in a broad range of religious and spiritual experiences as I was awake as a child to deeper dimentions in life as a 12 year old asking questions about God, life and the universe and everything. This questioning has made the most sense when I have studied the works of J Krishnamurti and ISKCON and found roots for my racial background while experiencing Christianity late in my life with a baptism in my 48th year and in 2026 and Church attendance at a local Church while I start work and engage normal routine. My blog is an attempt to integrate the works of J Krishnamurti and ISKCON into the study of my poetry and the reading of biographical data about me where I am quite candid about past life experiences and research I have done that leads me to know things about the past and lives I have lived as well as the last life I lived in the East in the twentieth century where I was involved in the military and land law and had a particular role to play in the Vietnam War after the narratives for World War 1 and World War 2 were not so clearly drawn as they are in the West to dominate education, morality and western religion. It is my hope to engage people in an effort to expand academic and social fields having disclosed my interest in Krishnamurti and ISKCON so that they can give effect to past lives I have experienced with Greek gods and goddesses to have a particular interest in civilisation today.
I live at home with my family (my mother, Santosh Kumari Rishi and elder brother Ritesh Kumar Rishi) and have never been married and have no children. My brother has never been married and has always been celibate and my mother is a retired business professional with an interest in current affairs and gardening. She has written a novel which is available here has past life experiences of her own with my brother to process as the NHS denies that they exist.
It is my hope that you find my blog useful and that I become established as a credible poetic voice with an urgency and immediacy that speaks to the current conditions we are experiencing on earth today after COVID and Brexit changed the British political landscape after the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. I blog frequently about my cosmic consciousness and astral travelling for Free Tibet and am candid about links I have to religious Gods and Goddesses in my articles that lead me to write in a way that will modernise British academia and lend itself to international research and coperation in time.
Thank you for taking the time to read my work and please get in touch at rrishi_99@yahoo.com to discuss things in more depth or if you have any questions or would like to arrange a meeting. It is my hope to become a serious literary voice while I am alive and that I will be interviewed so my biography is not left to libraries when I am dead. I also hope to get some help in publishing my two novels that take on the primacy of the Kama Sutra for the British Asian artist and family member by exploring contemporary ideas of Maya and British feminism in relation to Asian women – something that relates to my mother and the role she played so heavily taking an interest in my life after religious experiences made me aloof and distant from conventional reality. My brother has expressed an interest in spirituality and ideas exploring civilisation that he is a Unicorn with Greek civilisation and has been unemployed since 1998 and works as a Light Worker at home alone and has no friends and has broken his links with the extended family to protect me and my mum.
My father was one of four brothers who have all passed away and has two sisters in India. He lives in Greater Naoida outside Delhi and neither me nor my brother are in contact with him by phone or have plans to visit India to see him. I text him updates on my life from time to time.
My mother is one of 13 brothers and sisters whose network involves dozens of grandchildren and great grandchildren; none of which me or my mother has any connection with. Again I state that I did not fit in growing up and only spoke English so could not socialise with the family.
I have had several romantic and sexual relationships with English women and had an attempt at marriage and cohabitation but to no success and have given up women since 2013 and live as a celibate man. It is my hope that my literature will lend itself to explorations of sex and creativity over time as I continue to update my blog with religious articles explaining a new awareness that dawned on me about my past lives since leaving the NHS and being signed off from psychiatric observations.
There is a painting at the Shree Geeta Bhawan Temple in Handsworth where an Indian goddess (devi) is behind a glass frame and a lamp is kept on. This temple is my childhood temple and it was revealed to me over many years since undergoing many painful religious experiences that involved transcendentalism and communication with higher realms and the universe at large, that this is and was a picture of a previous life I had in India where I served under Lord Rama and upheld the dharma.
I have also been informed that the figure of King Leonides in the Hollywood film 300 is based on a previous life I have had in Greece and that I also served Christ as a figure who looked like the European philosopher Erasamus during Jacobean England in the late 1500s and early 1600s. I dealt with the rise of Shakesepare and am reborn to move him on and reshape things.
I have many spirit guides and am transcendentally situated to mediate this world and higher worlds as I explore new ideas in relation to a post religious field and attempt to build a network of religious and spiritual figures and characters to stem the flow of the medical profession and atheists who have command of the language we speak and the ways in which we relate to each other. I am here to deal with the Second Coming of Christ and repair the dharma and have spiritual experiences with the Dajaal and Sathya Sai Baba for some years now. I experience time differently to other people and am engaged with the Yugas of Hinduism and Deep Time of Classical traditions to establish meaningful ways in which the energy of Krishna can help build the internet and get others involved in my life’s work.
If you are able to make a financial contribution to continue my work, please do so by cheque to:
6 Shilton Grove
Weoley Castle
Birmingham
B29 5LU
Thank you for reading my blog.
With love,
Rohan Rishi
(Akaash Rishi during online work with social media videos during 2017-2024 where I experienced a nervous breakdown after contacting the energy of Krishna for my spiritual enlightenment. I have dozens of accounts on Instagram, Twitter / X, Facebook and Tik Tok as I exorcise myself of negativity and update myself for the modern age)
Wild Stage 