Nataša Nuit Pantović

Nataša Pantović MSc Economics, Maltese Serbian Novelist, Management Consultant, Adoptive Parent, and Ancient Worlds’ Consciousness Researcher.

THANK YOU for visiting my author page! As you read this I'll probably be researching ancient Greek comparing Chinese characters with Serbian Cyrillic from my stone house in Sliema, Malta built in 1938 called Brighton House. When I lived in England, for 3 years, heading the business development of a 150 consultants large IT Company in Ascot, Brighton was the place I cherished the most for its alternative and artistic vibes.

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Fast-backward nearly two decades from this day in a similar stone house in Sliema, named Arborea, I find myself on a slightly different pursuit, Alchemy, still comparing sacred symbols and researching sounds, frequencies. My fascination is fixed, defining a complete theory!

As a human being who spend many hours struggling to comprehend whether life has some deeper meaning, in a diary, when only 25, I wrote, "I believe that left vs right, north vs south expressed through the Ancient Egyptian aNX or Christian cross, can coexist and influence the other in positive ways. There must be a balance.”

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Published Author since 1991, a layman theosophist or a spare-time archaeologist, still researching original artefacts, listening to the sounds of Orthodox Slavs Christian Prayers, closely examining symbols of Ancient China, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, or Malta.

Simply put, a theosophist, derived from the Greek theos “god” and sophia “wisdom”, is understood to mean the one who studies the “divine wisdom.” It is the portal to „divine knowledge“ through which we hoped to discover, the true nature of consciousness.

Listening to the sacred code of languages’ development, I seek to answer the eternal question: is there the possible existence of something beyond all of this. For me, theosophy and archaeology are tools by which we can make the invisible visible. As Hesse wrote in his masterpiece The Glass Bead Game: “There is truth, my boy... You should long for the perfection of yourself.”

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'Seated on a panel with her fellow writers, Maltese-Serbian novelist Nataša Pantović has been known to use slam poetry to perform her poetic body of work. Like her prose, the improvised words, tribal music, percussionist sounds, lengthy ‘aum’ chanting, are neither too preposterous nor too earnest but endlessly curious. A bridge builder between East and West, following ancient archaeological findings, she often dives into historic settings more than 2,000 years back in time.

Can you tell us about Ama: Playing the Glass Bead Game with Pythagoras? What is it within this black main character that fascinates you so much?

Ama lived with me for 10 years before I knew I would adopt two kids from Ethiopia, yet Ama as the main protagonist of the story has decided to be black. Was Athens black at the time of the ancient Greeks or was it full of Slavs that during the Dark Ages were not allowed to have their own European history?

All my characters do have strong political, ideological and moral commitments, their ideas are ground-breaking; it is a science against the Church, male against female, East against West conversation.

Holding up a mirror to society of ancient worlds can be fanatical or too obvious within the storytelling environment, so I had to break the rhythm with myths, with art, with dreams.

This novel is, of course, about the search for truth, but from the goddess perspective, about love and union, of the priestesses that have given us the first commandment “Do not kill...”

In this novel you explore the Age of Enlightenment, and ‘Western’ ancient Greek philosophers. Can you talk about your use of the Eastern concept of ‘mindfulness’ in this context?

There are a number of ‘instant happiness’ gurus out there, I do not believe in a ‘get rich in a day’ message, but I do believe that if we learn how to listen to our soul, we will be able to live our highest potential.

We live in a rapidly changing world. When I was born in Belgrade in 1968, at the time of no TV or internet, the population on the planet was three billion. Now they say it is seven billion.

The changes I have seen during my lifetime are huge. Emotionally, mentally and physically, we have to adopt different behavior patterns, not just to survive, but to thrive without abusing other social groups or animals or endangering planet Earth.

The next stage, the stage of cultural life, is beyond the knowledge of more than 90 per cent of the population.

Having a percentage of the population that neither collects objects nor watches TV, nor reads newspapers, that is still capable of thinking, un-hypnotised, to appreciate art, or dance or sing, and is able to think creatively, is a part of my research fascination.' Sunday Times, 09. Aug. 2020, A Beautiful Mind, Interview with Natasa Pantovic. https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/a-beautiful-mind.810384

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In an interview with Malta Today - I meditate in an attempt to recall my dreams, Sep 2020 https://bit.ly/3gYzmGu

I meditate in an attempt to recall my dreams. A dream diary is the most beautiful technique I’ve learned from Jung – he understood dreams to be messages from the unconscious, and through his own self-analysis, containing imagery that illustrates our internal soul “messaging” system.

What is the best advice you’ve ever received?

My dad, who had a PhD in law, used to discuss ancient philosophers with me, introducing me to Aristotle’s ‘eudaimonia’ - the “long-term happiness” that achieved throughout a lifetime when human beings achieve health, wealth, knowledge, friends and this in turn leads to the perfection of human nature...

Pick three words that describe yourself

“Arche”, “Logos”, and “Harmonia”.

What do you consider to be your greatest achievement?

I could morph into a dolphin…

What is your guiltiest pleasure?

Reading the Babylon stories written in 2,500 BC. Researching Ancient Greek, Chinese and Egyptian characters or Akkadian that symbolically narrate the stories of advanced civilizations of 2,500 BC. Discovering “real” history or how I call it “playing the glass bead game with Pythagoras”.

What is the most important lesson life has taught you?

I “jumped” into the role of parenting, adopting as a single mother, two instead of one kid (as originally planned) even though I had no husband to support me within this journey. The madness of my little “mission” left me at home, babysitting and writing books, one after the other, since my creative flow kept overpowering me.

What has been your biggest challenge?

Original thinking. Any author’s dream is to be able to play the audience like a conductor does an orchestra. Take it onto a journey.

If you weren’t an ‘Ancient Worlds Consciousness Researcher’ what would you be doing?

I have already hugged a 3,000-years-old Maori tree in New Zealand and crossed the Savanah on foot and slept in the deserts of Africa, and climbed the hills of Nepal, danced barefoot under starry nights… so not researching, assuming the kids are no longer in need of my support, would probably take me back to exploring Serbian hills...

Do you believe in God?

As a dynamic, Orphic, hermaphrodite Universe of Consciousness, Yin and Yang manifestations... then yes.

What are you like when you’re drunk?

I have never ever been drunk. Can you believe this? I also do not take any medication...

What music would you have played at your funeral?

Jamming jazz by all participants.

Who’s your favourite person on social media right now?

I’m old-school. I read the newspaper. I still watch movies in the cinema, I buy the front row tickets. When I write a poem, or a story, I do not do it on a computer… all these handsome actors trying to act tortured, trying to look miserable. The life that is not real, does not appeal to me. So, no social media for me. Thanks, but no thanks...

What book are you reading right now?

Babylonian Life and History by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge (1884). Together with Lingua Maltese Studio Storico Etnografico e Filolgico by Caruana, published in 1896 in Italian. The latter, I have had the honour of holding it in my hands.

In the shower or when you’re working out, what do you sing/listen to?

Mantras of all religions like Kirya Si, Shiva Shakti, Halleluya, AuM allaH, my kids hate me for it... the neighbors are convinced that I am a Muslim, or a Jew, or a Hindu, or a Christian in a dire need of some psychiatric help. Sometimes the kids, passers-by or dogs sing with me."

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Moving to Malta to work with 150 strong IT firm within the Maltese Government: MSU, my professional career rose to the highs of 25 years of experience as Management Consultant & Trainer with: KPMG, Reeds, Deloitte, have represented Malta’s IT outsourcing, all around the planet. As a female-presenter I remember facing a mainly male audience @ “The Economist’s €uro-Mediterranean Business Summit 2006” in Marseille France.

If we discover a complete theory, in time it should be understood by everyone, physicians, laymen, biologists, psychologists, passers-by. Knowing the Mind of God! If we find the answer to that, it would inspire all to debate the question of existence. Through an exploration of various philosophers, we can discover more about the nature of All, resonating as a cross with all the age groups, all nationalities, all sex and races.

Volunteering, I have organized 6 large Body, Mind Spirit Festivals, International Veg Festival, 10 days Neolithic Temples Conference. A European Alliance certified Yoga Instructor, had a yoga studio, have helped build a school in Ethiopia, that has inspired me to adopt two kids!

Published Author since 1991, 10 books in numerous editions, in Serbian and English. New 2021 Release:

* “Metaphysics of Sound | In Search of the Name of God”

Find me on Publisher’s website www.artof4elements.com

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