Parvati Markus is the author of Whisper in the Heart: The Ongoing Presence of Neem Karoli Baba (Mandala, released this year 2022) and Love Everyone: The Transcendent Wisdom of Neem Karoli Baba Told Through the Stories of the Westerners Whose Lives He Transformed (HarperOne, 2015). With Radha Baum, she is the co-author of a children’s book, Isabella Castaspella: The Happy Little Witch and Her Friends (SitaRam Press, 2022). Parvati has been “midwifing” spiritually-oriented nonfiction books and memoirs as a developmental editor/writer since her first efforts with Ram Dass’s classic Be Here Now. She has also helped with spiritual organizations (as past president of the board of the Neem Karoli Baba Ashram and Hanuman Temple in Taos, NM), and events (as a development consultant for the Global Peace Initiative of Women.) She is on the Advisory Board of the Love Serve Remember Foundation. You can find more about her at parvatimarkus.com
In this episode we talk about how she first met Neem Karoli Baba, her grief when he died, the power of stories (sharing and hearing) in processing grief, her new book Whisper in the Heart that shares stories on the ongoing presence of Neem Karoli Baba through grief dreams and other experiences, and the hosts grief dreams of him.
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E169 - Barron Steffen - The Final Gift
E168 - Lindsey Whissel Fenton - Speaking Grief
E167 - Julie Rennie - A Conversation With Dr. Black's Mother
E166 - Dr. T.J. Wray - Grief Dreams and the Bible
E165 - Flora Baker - The Adult Orphan Club
E164 - Philip Goldberg - Spiritual Practice for Crazy Times
E163 - Jane Edberg - The Fine Art of Grieving
E162 - Alexa Norton - Grief Shine
E161 - Gary Alan Shockley - My Heart Sings A Sad Song
E160 - John Dietsch - Graced By Waters
E159 - Erica Buist - This Party's Dead
E158 - Chelsea Rushton - The Other Side of Chelshotel
E157 - Dr. Virginia Marsico - From Bruiser to Wall-E
E156 - Guest Update - Rebecca MacDonald
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E155 - Lisa Keefauver - Reimagining Grief
E154 - Dr. Sharon Prentice - Becoming Starlight
E153 - Lisa Bonneville - People Need People
E152 - Guest Update - Molly Schultz
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