Podcast appearances and mentions of Kamla K Kapur

This week, on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam is pleased to welcome Author and Professor, Kamla K. Kapur.Kamla is a versatile and celebrated writer, who seamlessly weaves her Indian heritage with her experiences here in the United States to craft captivating literary works spanning plays, novels, poetry, essays, and reimagining of Indian spiritual texts. She is the author of 8 books.Her latest book is The Privilege of Aging, Savoring the Fullness of Life. Kamla has moved beyond her identity as an author into her identity as a crumbling old person who continues to write passionately whenever the Universe allows. At 76 she is moving from a search for meaning to an experience of existence, of the profoundly simple gifts, food, exercise, contemplation, silence, stretching, resting, her Yorkie doggie daughter sleeping on her lap, her husband holding her hand in sleep. She is giving away possessions and property with a warm hand to live the rest of her life unencumbered, nonattached, free, affirming life even as she moves towards an affirmation of death. So far all is well. She hopes all the tricks and techniques she diligently practices will come to her aid in the inherent uncertainty and challenges of her future. Tune in and share all of your questions and comments about aging and death on our YouTube livestream or on our Facebook page. https://amzn.to/3PIQOiShttps://KamlaKKapur.comSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-conscious-consultant-hour8505/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Ellen Kamhi talks with Kamla K. Kapur, formerly a distinguished literature professor at Grossmont College.  Her writing has included plays, novels, poetry, essays and reimagining Indian and Mid-Eastern spiritual writings. Her latest book is 'The Privilege of Aging, Savoring the Fullness of Life.' She is based in Del Mar, California, and spends 6 months in the remote Himalayas with her husband and Yorkie.

An inspiring guide to embracing your mortality and living a fulfilled life• Shares the author's inner adventure to face aging, illness, and death, along with hard-won wisdom on the art of resting, happiness, and letting go• Draws on stories from different spiritual traditions and offers strategies, tools, and ways of thinking to navigate the challenges of aging• Reveals how to examine your fears and regrets, declutter the mind of negative thoughts, and reframe reality with the powerful tool of unconditional self-lovePresenting a clarion call to the aging to awaken before they die, Kamla K. Kapur explores how we can become warriors on the spiritual path in order to embrace and prepare for the truth of our mortality and the ultimate triumph of conscious living and dying.Set in both California and India, Kapur shares her inner adventure to navigate the hazardous battlefield of aging with the aid of spiritual guides that pilot her to safety. She offers hard-won wisdom on the art of resting, happiness, and letting go in order to achieve vitality, satisfaction, and joy in the life we are fortunate to still have.Revealing the arc of her own self-discovery, she examines her shadows, fears, anxieties, and regrets, decluttering her mind of disempowering thoughts and reframing and co-creating her reality with the powerful tool of unconditional self-love. She describes how to confront, express, and embrace your darkness, consciously and honestly, to move forward into the ever greater wholeness of being.Drawing on stories from a variety of cultural traditions, Kapur demonstrates the power of self-examination, vigilance, and intentionality to have a successful old age. She offers numerous strategies, tools, and ways of thinking to ensure mental, physical, and spiritual strength so we can meet aging's challenges and transform from the people we once were to the ones we are becoming on the penultimate stage of earthly life.Kamla K. Kapur was born and raised in India and studied in the United States. An award-winning playwright, poet, and author, her writing has been featured in anthologies and journals such as Parabola and The Sun. A former literature professor at Grossmont College, she and her husband divide their time between the remote Indian Himalayas and San Diego, California.https://www.kamlakkapur.com/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.

Savoring Aging: Kamla Kapur This is a clarion call to the aging to awaken before they die, embark on the adventure of self-discovery, become warriors on the spiritual path to embrace and ensure safe passage with the ultimate triumph of conscious living and dying. The privilege of aging is to experience with engagement this precious, painful life and to achieve vitality, satisfaction, joy in life we are fortunate to still have. Learn the art of resting, happiness, letting go, facing death to live in its light with greater intensity, enthusiasm, passion, and anchoring in a spirituality that transcends death. Kamla K. Kapur was born and raised in India and studied in the United States. Her writing has included plays, novels, poetry, essays and reimaging Indian and Mid-Eastern spiritual writings. She is the author of 8 books. Her latest book, The Privilege of Aging, Savoring the Fullness of Life, Inner Traditions in July 2024. She is based in Del Mar, California, and spends 6 months in the remote Himalayas with her husband and Yorkie. https://www.kamlakkapur.com/ Learn more about Simran here: www.iamsimran.com www.1111mag.com/

Kamla K. Kapur was born and raised in India and studied in the United States. Her writing has included plays, novels, poetry, essays and reimaging Indian and Mid-Eastern spiritual writings. Her latest book is “The Privilege of Aging, Savoring the Fullness of Life.”Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mission-evolution-with-gwilda-wiyaka--2888020/support.

On this podcast, popular storyteller Kamla Kapur tells us about her own experience of the current world situation. She gives us an intimate portrait of her day-to-day quarantine life, full of panic and wonder, confronting death and giving thanks to Life. We discuss many themes of the coronavirus pandemic: our connection to the invisible, exploring the universe within, the energy of the earth, and the opportunity to relinquish the unnecessary attachments we've carried for too long. A soul made real through a rich life of suffering and triumph, Kamla Kapur blesses us with her human vulnerability in this episode. Kamla K. Kapur is the author of Ganesha Goes to Lunch, Rumi: Tales Of The Spirit, and The Singing Guru. She has also published two books of poetry, As a Fountain in a Garden and Radha Sings: Erotic Love Poems, numerous short stories, and a series of award-winning plays. And the follow-up book to The Singing Guru, Into The Great Heart, will be coming out on the 28th of this month.  She divides her time living in the Kullu Valley in the Indian Himalayas and in Southern California.  Her books draw on the wisdom of the Hindu, Sikh, and Sufi traditions.  You can find out more about her on her website, kamlakkapur.comContemplative Light provides education and resources in a global effort towards inner transformation through meditation and contemplative prayer. You can find us on Facebook as Contemplative Light where we have a very active facebook community or at our website at contemplativelight.org  Support the show (https://contemplativelight.org/)

Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed by lifes challenges? Lost when it comes to finding your path? Confused about the meaning of it all? In our fast-paced society, with little time and even shorter attention-spans, we are more and more losing the ability to sit with suffering or patiently observe our own distress. The goal is more to avoid discomfort at all costs, whether through distractions, pharmaceuticals, social media or any readily available pleasure. Yet, the suffering we ignore doesn't disappear, and questions we avoid don't get answered. The ancient mystic, Rumi, taught us to have faith in the power of suffering to embrace it, even if it is painful. Rumi understood pain as a symptom that our closed hearts are breaking open. My special guest on the next episode of Empowerment Radio is Kamla Kapur, author of Rumi, Tales of the Spirit. In her new book Kamla collected twelve fresh and powerful tales of the timeless storyteller Rumi, which guide us through the trials of life and teach us to embrace suffering, to pray even when it feels hopeless, and ultimately, to surrender to the cosmic will. Join me and Kamla this Thursday, November 21st at 9AM PT / 12PM ET, and learn from ancient wisdom, and how our trials and hard times can be the fuel for greater healing, wholeness and happiness. You can find all my previous episodes as videos on YouTube.

Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed by lifes challenges? Lost when it comes to finding your path? Confused about the meaning of it all? In our fast-paced society, with little time and even shorter attention-spans, we are more and more losing the ability to sit with suffering or patiently observe our own distress. The goal is more to avoid discomfort at all costs, whether through distractions, pharmaceuticals, social media or any readily available pleasure. Yet, the suffering we ignore doesn't disappear, and questions we avoid don't get answered. The ancient mystic, Rumi, taught us to have faith in the power of suffering to embrace it, even if it is painful. Rumi understood pain as a symptom that our closed hearts are breaking open. My special guest on the next episode of Empowerment Radio is Kamla Kapur, author of Rumi, Tales of the Spirit. In her new book Kamla collected twelve fresh and powerful tales of the timeless storyteller Rumi, which guide us through the trials of life and teach us to embrace suffering, to pray even when it feels hopeless, and ultimately, to surrender to the cosmic will. Join me and Kamla this Thursday, November 21st at 9AM PT / 12PM ET, and learn from ancient wisdom, and how our trials and hard times can be the fuel for greater healing, wholeness and happiness. You can find all my previous episodes as videos on YouTube.

Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed by lifes challenges? Lost when it comes to finding your path? Confused about the meaning of it all? In our fast-paced society, with little time and even shorter attention-spans, we are more and more losing the ability to sit with suffering or patiently observe our own distress. The goal is more to avoid discomfort at all costs, whether through distractions, pharmaceuticals, social media or any readily available pleasure. Yet, the suffering we ignore doesn't disappear, and questions we avoid don't get answered. The ancient mystic, Rumi, taught us to have faith in the power of suffering to embrace it, even if it is painful. Rumi understood pain as a symptom that our closed hearts are breaking open. My special guest on the next episode of Empowerment Radio is Kamla Kapur, author of Rumi, Tales of the Spirit. In her new book Kamla collected twelve fresh and powerful tales of the timeless storyteller Rumi, which guide us through the trials of life and teach us to embrace suffering, to pray even when it feels hopeless, and ultimately, to surrender to the cosmic will. Join me and Kamla this Thursday, November 21st at 9AM PT / 12PM ET, and learn from ancient wisdom, and how our trials and hard times can be the fuel for greater healing, wholeness and happiness. You can find all my previous episodes as videos on YouTube.

Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed by lifes challenges? Lost when it comes to finding your path? Confused about the meaning of it all? In our fast-paced society, with little time and even shorter attention-spans, we are more and more losing the ability to sit with suffering or patiently observe our own distress. The goal is more to avoid discomfort at all costs, whether through distractions, pharmaceuticals, social media or any readily available pleasure. Yet, the suffering we ignore doesn't disappear, and questions we avoid don't get answered. The ancient mystic, Rumi, taught us to have faith in the power of suffering to embrace it, even if it is painful. Rumi understood pain as a symptom that our closed hearts are breaking open. My special guest on the next episode of Empowerment Radio is Kamla Kapur, author of Rumi, Tales of the Spirit. In her new book Kamla collected twelve fresh and powerful tales of the timeless storyteller Rumi, which guide us through the trials of life and teach us to embrace suffering, to pray even when it feels hopeless, and ultimately, to surrender to the cosmic will. Join me and Kamla this Thursday, November 21st at 9AM PT / 12PM ET, and learn from ancient wisdom, and how our trials and hard times can be the fuel for greater healing, wholeness and happiness. You can find all my previous episodes as videos on YouTube.

Kamla K. Kapur was born and raised in India and studied in the United States. Her writing has included plays, novels, poetry, essays and reimagined spiritual writings. Her critically acclaimed books include The Singing Guru, on the legends of Guru Nanak, and Ganesha Goes to Lunch: Classics from Mystic India. Her latest book, Rumi: Tales of the Spirit, contains reinterpretations of stories by the great Sufi mystic poet along with insightful commentaries. An accomplished public speaker, she was also on the faculty of Grossmont College, San Diego, for 15 years teaching composition, literature, creative writing, mythology, and Shakespeare. We spoke mainly about Rumi, his enduring popularity, and lessons to be derived from the stories in her latest book. Learn more about Kamla Kapur here: https://www.kamlakkapur.com/bio.