For episode 278, Sharon sits down with author and friend, Parvati Markus, the editor of the new Ram Dass book, “There is No Other: The Way to Harmony and Wholeness.”
Parvati is a developmental editor who has been midwifing non-fiction books and memoirs since her first efforts with Ram Dass’s classic Be Here Now. She serves on the Board of Advisors for the Love Serve Remember Foundation and has helped with many other spiritual organizations and events. Parvati is also the author of numerous books, including Whisper in the Heart and Love Everyone. This is Parvati’s first appearance on the Metta Hour.
In this conversation, Parvati and Sharon speak about:
- How Parvati found her path
- Meeting Neem Karoli Baba
- Ram Dass and Parvati’s friendship
- Parvati’s contribution to “Be Here Now”
- The inspiration for “There is No Other”
- Moving past “us” and “them”
- Balancing real life & spiritual life
- Substituting noticing for judging
- Neem Karoli Baba’s directive of service
- Ram Dass learning to accept help
- Moving from Role to Soul
- How to be here now in times of difficulty
- Community as the future Buddha
- Joseph Goldstein’s fateful meeting with Ram Dass
- What is Loving Awareness
- Ram Dass’s final public appearance
This episode closes with a guided meditation from Ram Dass that invites us to let go of the heaviness of confusion and our rigid models of who we are and how it is.