Isabella Castaspella

Parvati Markus is the author of Whisper in the Heart: The Ongoing Presence of Neem Karoli Baba and Love Everyone: The Transcendent Wisdom of Neem Karoli Baba Told Through the Stories of the Westerners Whose Lives He Transformed. She is the co-author of a children’s book, Isabella Castaspella: The Happy Little Witch and Her Friends, with Radha Baum. Parvati has been “midwifing” spiritual nonfiction books as a developmental editor and writer since Ram Dass’s classic Be Here Now. She is a former president of the board of the Neem Karoli Baba Ashram and Temple and a former development consultant for the Global Peace Initiative of Women Religious and Spiritual Leaders, held at the U.N. in Geneva, Switzerland, and is on the Advisory Board of the Love Serve Remember Foundation. She lives in Los Angeles.

RADHA BAUM has a degree in Early Childhood Education from NYU and worked as a nursery school teacher. She is a retired Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) and Registered Nurse (RN), as well as a licensed acupuncturist and practitioner of various complementary healing techniques. She is D.A.N.-certified (Defeat Autism Now) and has worked with autistic children at the Exceptional Health and Wellness Center/Central Speech, in Hartsdale, NY, in family education, nutritional guidance, and ABA training for children. She has lectured on Childhood Disorders, and Allergies and Nutrition for Children at Exceptional Health and Wellness Center as well as at the Schachter Center for Complementary Medicine in Suffern, NY, where she also lectured on Woman's Health Issues and Chinese Herbal Medicine. She and Parvati have both studied "story" with Robert McKee.