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Emily Louise Spalding was born in West Chester, PA, to Fitzhugh Preston (Bud) Spalding and Mabel (Smith). She had an younger brother, Preston. They moved to Pasadena, where she grew up.

In her early 20s she worked in an inn on the western slopes of the Sierra, having a grand old time. She backpacked and car-camped through most of the Sierras, often for weeks at a time, loving the silence and purity of the wilderness.

She hung out with a lot of the influential beatniks of the time in New York: Jack Kerouac, Alan Watts, etc. For 30 years, she studied with J. Krishnamurti.

Got her teaching credential in English and History in1966, taught in the Navajo Indian school on the reservation near Chinle, and fell in love with the desert.

In northern California she taught at Hamlin, St. Rose Academy, and the Branson School, and bought a tiny cabin on Panoramic Highway in Mill Valley sight unseen; convinced the owner to let her pay cash and got it by a series of miracles.

At age 51 she went to India to check out Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and took sannyas (discipleship) with him in 1977, in that atmosphere of truth-seeking, celebration, silence, and unconditional love.

Her cabin became a refuge for many sannyasins as they passed through on their way to the ashram, the ranch, or a job.

She spent as much time in India as she could, with her teaching schedule, and then when the Ranch in Oregon started she went there immediately. She worked in the truck farm down by the river, again surrounded by silence and beauty. 

After the Ranch, she moved in to Burbank Orchards, where she spent the last years of her life with a view of the oak trees, meditating. One of her greatest joys in life, after macular degeneration set in, was long phone conversations with dear friends all over the continent.