Culture, Healing, and the Afterlife with Haresh Patel

Oct 12, 2025

Haresh Patel, entrepreneur and author of *The Ghost in My Body*, shares his remarkable 55-year healing journey after a childhood tragedy. He delves into the emotional toll of losing his mother and explores cultural and spiritual approaches to healing. Their conversation reveals how haunting dreams and health struggles intersect with self-discovery. Haresh recounts a life-changing encounter with an Ayurvedic doctor, leading to profound rituals in India and a transformative release. He advocates for integrating holistic practices with modern medicine to improve health outcomes.

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Childhood Trauma And The Crash

Haresh was six when his mother died in a car accident that threw her from the car and left him uninjured.
He remembers the crash vividly and later discovered his father had misrepresented details out of guilt.

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Mother's Unusual Burial Request

Haresh recalls a close bond with his mother during his early years and a surprising request she made before she died.
His mother asked to be buried rather than cremated, contrary to their Hindu customs, and his father honored her wish.

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Suppressed Grief And Nightmares

After the accident Haresh suppressed emotions and did not cry, which he later linked to recurring nightmares of hiding a body.
These nightmares intensified over decades and tied into his later physical symptoms.

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Culture, Healing, and the Afterlife with Haresh Patel

Haresh Patel is an entrepreneur. He founded a company called Mercatus which was recently sold to State Street Investments, one of the largest investment firms in the world. He is also the author of a soon-to-be published book called The Ghost in My Body: A 55year Journey to Healing.

Haresh Patel shares his extraordinary 55-year healing journey that began with childhood tragedy and unfolded through spiritual encounters, cultural insights, and medical challenges. His story weaves together themes of trauma, resilience, and the afterlife, culminating in a transformative experience of release and renewal. This conversation explores how culture, spirituality, and consciousness intersect in the search for true healing.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He currently serves as Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science.

(Recorded on September 9, 2025)

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