Īs a teenager I discovered "Autobiography of a Yogi", Buddhism, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, which led to attending teachings of many great Indian masters passing through my new town of San Francisco : like Guru Bawa, Krishnamurti and Prem Rowat. My quest of Spiritual discovery (being bored & aesthetically bored with Lutheran Sunday School, led me to the Catholic Church (the BEST Cathedrals, Lifesized beeding Saints, incense ,men dressed in lace and velvet who gave you wine & wafers ! ) Jewish Synagogue (beautiful singing by the Cantors) the Church of Religious Science and Mary Baker Eddy (my first taste of Metaphysics). I carried around a well worn Bible from the age of 7 and prayed for Jesus to walk out on a cloud and wave down to to me. All were lovingly wrapped in my grandma's floral hankies and laid in flower strewn shoe box coffins and buried in the backyard (or cremated in our outdoor incinerator.) When asked what I wanted to be when I grew up I would say" mortician's cosmetologist" which I discovered was a profession at a special vocation assembly in 6th grade.Īlways a religious fanatic from an early age, I was profoundly aware and terrified of being in a human body and asked "WHY"(and still do) about everything. I conducted elaborate funeral processions in my suburban backyard with my Barbies as pallbearers -Dead birds, my rabbit Rodney (who died of heatstroke) and my pet parakeet Elvis that my Mother accidently slammed in the back door. "As a child growing up outside Hollywood ,CA.
( The Original KINKARACO ® website homepage in 2005 was replaced because it frightened people! ) OUR MOTTO: " LOOK BEAUTIFUL IN THE LAST THING YOU'LL EVER WEAR!"™ ĪNSWER : KINKARA Is a Sanskrit word from India for the Tantric Tibetan Buddhist Protector Deities (Father- Mother Lord of the Charnal Grounds) shown as dancing skeletons who live in the Charnal Grounds ( holy cremation grounds like Varanasi in India ) reminding us of impermanence ( Death) Compassion and Wisdom CO- Simply the abbreviation of Company. In 2005 KINKARACO ® Green Funeral Products took the most ancient funeral object - the shroud - and transformed it into an affordable easy to use modern GREEN funeral product for funeral homes to offer people seeking green burial and cremation, replacing both clothing and caskets.
(photo of Esmerelda Kent by Eric Millette for Businessweek magazine 2008)
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