For episode 278, Sharon sits down with writer and good friend, Parvati Markus, the editor of the brand new Ram Dass ebook, “There may be No Different: The Approach to Concord and Wholeness.”
Parvati is a developmental editor who has been midwifing non-fiction books and memoirs since her first efforts with Ram Dass’s traditional Be Right here Now. She serves on the Board of Advisors for the Love Serve Keep in mind Basis and has helped with many different non secular organizations and occasions. Parvati can be the writer of quite a few books, together with Whisper within the Coronary heart and Love Everybody. That is Parvati’s first look on the Metta Hour.
On this dialog, Parvati and Sharon discuss:
- How Parvati discovered her path
- Assembly Neem Karoli Baba
- Ram Dass and Parvati’s friendship
- Parvati’s contribution to “Be Right here Now”
- The inspiration for “There may be No Different”
- Transferring previous “us” and “them”
- Balancing actual life & non secular life
- Substituting noticing for judging
- Neem Karoli Baba’s directive of service
- Ram Dass studying to just accept assist
- Transferring from Function to Soul
- Methods to be right here now in occasions of problem
- Neighborhood as the long run Buddha
- Joseph Goldstein’s fateful assembly with Ram Dass
- What’s Loving Consciousness
- Ram Dass’s remaining public look
This episode closes with a guided meditation from Ram Dass that invitations us to let go of the heaviness of confusion and our inflexible fashions of who we’re and the way it’s.


