Overview
- Gibson posted on June 27 that he is on a "spiritual sabbatical" in Mumbai and shared videos and photos from a temple showing him doing aarti and offering milk to a shivling.
- He framed the visit by invoking Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1959 trip to India and Mahatma Gandhi’s influence and said he came to learn meditation to quiet anxiety and pursue inner peace.
- Gibson publicly thanked an organization or person he called "AMA," praised their animal rescue work as Nobel‑worthy, and credited mentor Prabhav Sharma and his childhood friend Kenyatta for making the trip meaningful.
- News outlets reporting the story largely reproduced Gibson’s social‑media posts and syndicated agency copy from ANI and did not report independent, on‑the‑ground events beyond the actor’s shared images and videos.
- Outlets note Gibson has a busy film slate, including a return to the Fast & Furious franchise and a Teddy Pendergrass biopic, and he said the India sabbatical is part of a broader personal and creative journey.