Laurie Lakso
- Writer
Laurie Lakso, aka Silver Parnell ("Sannyasini Kaliprana") was the daughter of screenwriter Edward J. Lakso. In her youth, she supplied him with story lines for the show Charlie's Angels when he was the line producer. She wrote 9 story treatments - 6 under employment contract and 3 under outright buys. She worked as a multi-media artist, producing ceramics, watercolors, acrylic paintings, art jewelry, poetry and writing fiction. Fascinated with religion from an early age, she spent several years with the Scientologists in the mid 1970's, a few months of which were spent on the Flag Ship with L. Ron Hubbard off the coasts of Spain and Portugal. She left to study Buddhism and has many Buddhist friends, which included Roshi Prabhasa Dharma of affectionate memory. Her time with the Vedanta Society of Southern California in the 1980s and early 1990s, under the tutelage of Swami Swahananda was a pivotal time period for her. Even after leaving their convent, where she spent several years, she followed through with "sannyas" vows through her Vedanta teacher in the early 2000s - which is somewhat equivalent to what we would call a "swami" which denotes a somewhat retired contemplative life. As of January, 2021, She continued to write fiction and a meditation blog and produce art in her retired years.