Women Mystics, Devotion & The Transformative Path of Loss & Longing with Mirabai Starr (episode 220)

Mirabai Starr is an award-winning author, internationally acclaimed speaker, and interspiritual teacher. She gives talks, retreats and workshops on the teachings of the mystics, the wisdom of the feminine, and contemplative practice, rooted in the transformational power of grief and loss. As a teenager, Mirabai lived at the Lama Foundation, an intentional spiritual community that has honored all the world’s faith traditions since its inception in 1967, and the place where Ram Dass’ iconic book, Be Here Now, was born. This ecumenical orientation became formative in the universal quality that permeates Mirabai’s work.

She was an adjunct professor of Philosophy and World Religions at the University of New Mexico-Taos for 20 years. Her emphasis has always been on making connections between the perennial teachings found at the heart of all the world’s spiritual paths, in an effort to promote peace and justice. Mirabai lives in the mountains of New Mexico with her husband, Jeff Little (Ganga Das). Between them, they have four grown daughters and eight grandchildren.

Mirabai’s youngest daughter, Jenny, was killed in a car crash in 2001 at the age of fourteen. On that same day, her first book, a translation of the mystical masterpiece Dark Night of the Soul by the sixteenth century Spanish saint John of the Cross, was released. This experience, and the connection between profound loss and longing for the Divine, is the ground of her spiritual life.

Drawing from 20 years of teaching Philosophy and World Religions and a lifetime of practice, Mirabai shares her wisdom worldwide on contemplative living, writing as a spiritual practice, and grief as a spiritual path. She has authored over a dozen books including Wild Mercy, Caravan of No Despair, Ordinary Mysticism, and revolutionary translations of sacred literature. For more, visit www.mirabaistarr.com.

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