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Shashi Kiran Madan
Shashi Kiran Madan is a philosopher, mystic, healer, poet, peace and human rights associate. She was born in Ruhengri, Rwanda in Africa, while her parents Shri Amar S. Madan and Smt Savitri Devi Madan were in the process of permanently moving to their newly built house, No. 2152, Sector 15-C, Chandigarh, India. She was born on Sept 3, 1960. She was the youngest of five daughters and three older brothers and was loved dearly by her father, who was also her first spiritual mentor. Shashi was enrolled in Carmel Convent School in Chandigarh. And later was enrolled in Govt. College for Women, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Her passion for philosophy, psychology, and law would propel her towards self-realization, social work, understanding the plight of the marginalized and the poor in India. Her trip to Africa at age 5 with her mother and her younger brother of three, would change her life for good, connecting to her goal, purpose and life work and study. In 1981 she was sponsored to United States of America by her oldest sister and her brother-in-law, Dr. and Mrs. V.S. Sethi. She was granted a permanent resident green card providing her opportunity to pursue further education and professional development including work in histology at North Carolina Baptist Medical Center and Medical Park, Forsyth Medical Center followed by certification and twenty year practice, in wholistic healing focused on women's issues. In 2004, after surviving, from a severe abdominal surgery at Forsyth Hospital, North Carolina due to pre-cancerous ovarian cyst, Shashi would pursue further studies in Therapeutic Recreation, as a second degree student at Winston-Salem State University till she got accepted as a Special Olympics Volunteer and offered a position at Enrichment Center in Winston-Salem, as a program manager to develop a Wholistic Stress-management arts program, for individuals who were gifted and physically and emotionally challenged. She also would be offered a position at Charles Hines, followed by Easter Seals, as a qualified professional while gradually promoted to a Program Director in Case Management and when both the agencies would decide to stop providing individuals with services for mental well-being, she would be offered a program manager position at Cornerstone Comprehensive Services. In 2006 she would also receive her United States Citizenship. 2010, Shashi would initiate with approximately twelve individuals, peace studies, discussion and service-practice weekly group at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on Birchwood off Bethesda Rd, from Stratford. In 2013, she would decide to take her second trip back to India since 1981, to meet the Toto tribe and explore opportunities to serve either in Totopara or Himachal. In March 2014, after receiving an overwhelming response and welcome, Shashi would respond to a call to serve in Bilaspur, Himachal in India. After returning to USA at the expiration of her visa to India, she would start the process for her visa for person of India origin so she could return back to India in 2015-2016. Having completed her family responsibilities to her only biological son, she would request her husband for consent to pursue renunciation knowing he cared for her deeply and would understand her life long pursuit for Truth, Healing and Self-Realization and freedom from all that she is called to release, forgive and let go for a closer soul pilgrimage. From introduction to soul whispers, poetry by Shashi K. Madan hosted by Jill at Downtown Public Library, Winston-Salem, introduced by Dr. Edward Carl Robson, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, poet, musician, play writer, gardener, mineral and gem stones collector and jeweler, father of three sons and a daughter, and a step dad to Shashi's son Alexander Daniel born in June 1987 from a previous marriage to John Charles Eaton, Jr.