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Parabola 33:1

Silence

ISBN 0362-1596 / 978Pb 33:1, Parabola

Contents:

THE DEEPEST SILENCE John Roger Barrie
The mystical heart of silence

THE LAST THIRD OF THE NIGHT David Sander
Traditional Islam and the challenge of silence

LISTENING FOR THE VOICE OF GOD Tom Rothschild
Silence in Quaker worship

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Parabola 32:3

Holy Earth

, ISBN 0362-1596 / 978Pb 32:3, Parabola

HOLY EARTH
(Volume 32, Number 3)

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Parabola 31:4

Home

, ISBN Pb 31:4 / 978Pb 31:4, Parabola

HOME
(Volume 31, Number 4)

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Parabola 31:2

The Path of Yearning

128 pages , ISBN Pb 31:2 / 978Pb 31:2, Parabola

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Parabola 30:4

Fundamentalism - Getting out of the Box

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Parabola 30:1

Awakening

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Parabola 29:3

The Seeker

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Parabola 29:1

Marriage

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"The Tale of Baucis and Philemon" by Jane L. Mickelson
- A look at Ovid’s story
"The Dame and the Knight" by Michael van Baker
- Women, men, and the need for sovereignty
"Standing Under the Mountain" by Eliezer Shore
- To enter a binding covenant
"Heaven and Earth" by Mircea Eliade
- The cosmogonic marriage

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Parabola 28:3

Chaos and Order

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• "Doorways to Other Worlds" by Mary Pat Mann - What do fractals and Faery have in common?
  
• "A Hymn" by Thomas Moore - Honoring the positive attributes of disorder
  
• "Monsters, Children of Chaos" by David Appelbaum - What lurks in the dark deep...
  
• POINT OF VIEW: "The Last Lecture" by Philip Zaleski

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Parabola 28:1

Compassion

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Parabola 27:2

Dying

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"So Many Tears I Was Searching" by Murray Littlejohn and Edward Tingley - Reflections on the death of George Harrison

"Why We Wash the Dead" by Leslie What - Exploring the Jewish ceremonial washing

"Godfather Death" by Madronna Holden - Storytelling lights the transition

POINT OF VIEW: "’How Long, O Lord?’" by Roger Lipsey

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Parabola 26:3

The Fool

, ISBN Pb 26:3 / 978Pb 26:3, Parabola

"A Fool’s History of Human Civilization" by Joy Thompson - Or, a history of Everyman

"Falling and Rising in Love" by Rama Devagupta - The story of Laila and Majnu

"At Home in the Land of the Little Green Waiting-Maid " by Nan Runde - A look at the youngest brother in fairy tales

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Parabola 26:1

The Garden

, ISBN Pb 26:1 / 978Pb 26:1, Parabola

"Telling the Rosary" by Christopher Bamford - To attend to the "one needful thing"

"The Patient Reach for Light" by Anita Lange - The meaning of divine wisdom

"Gardens of the Heart" by Norris Brock Johnson - Form and emptiness in the Japanese Zen garden

"Water and Shade" by Emma Clark - An Islamic portrait of paradise

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Parabola 25:3

The Teacher

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"The Source of Wisdom" by Richard Smoley - Where to search for authority

"Spiritual Masters" - An Interview with William Segal

"Bending and Turning" by Robert Dixon-Kolar - The lessons of Shaker craft

"The Spiritual Guide" by Jalalu’l-Din Rumi - "The refuge in the shadow of the sage"

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Parabola 25:1

Threshold

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"Leaping Over" by Joseph Bruchac - Native American lore of the threshold

"The Gods of Metes and Bounds" by David Hoffman and Sharon Hoffman - Respect for boundaries

"Threshold of Chastity" by Devdutt Pattanaik - Social propriety in the Ramayana

"Information Ecology" by David Rothenberg - Emerging possibilities in technology

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Parabola 23:4

Birth and Rebirth

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"Kheperi, Ra, Atum" by Normandi Ellis - The ancient Egyptian vision of transformation

"Cauldron of Changes" by Mara Freeman - Shifting from form to form

"Who Lives, Who Survives?" by Wendy Doniger - Karma and reincarnation in Hindu texts

"By Whom Is Wisdom Sown?" from the Hermetica - Teachings of Hermes Trismegistus

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Parabola 23:2

Ecstasy

, ISBN Pb 23:2 / 978Pb 23:2, Parabola

"The Necessary Note" by David Rothenberg - A music to concentrate the self

" ’I Will Make Myself Mad’ " by Kabir Helminski - Rumi’s call to "drunkenness"

"Kali Who Swallows the Universe" by Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati - The Dark Goddess devours the toxins of the soul

"Wise and Foolish Virgins" by Peter A. Kwasniewski - Testing our love of images

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Parabola 22:4

Miracles

, ISBN Pb 22:4 / 978Pb 22:4, Parabola

"With Visible Breath" by Joseph Bruchac - Sacred powers in Native American traditions

"A Theater That Transforms Us" by William A. McIntosh - Giving drama to a teaching

"The Milk of Miracles" by Eliezer Shore - The inner meaning of miraculous stories

"Compassion’s Flower" - An Interview with Orgyen Kusum Lingpa

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Parabola 22:2

The Shadow

, ISBN Pb 22:2 / 978Pb 22:2, Parabola

"Light’s Companion" by Madeleine L’Engle - Balancing the presence and absence of light

"Inviting the Demon" by Judith Simmer-Brown - Struggling against karma

"On the Teeter-totter of Ego: An Interview with Robert Johnson" - Owning your own shadow

"Burnished Gold" by Christopher Bamford - Sadness as a door to understanding

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Parabola 21:4

Play and Work

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"Spontaneous Effort" by David Rothenberg - When the moment strikes

"No Shadow Draws the Water" by Robert Aitken - Imaginative interaction as play

"A Natural Harmony" by David Fideler - Cosmological forces at work

"First Things" by Eric Gill - Reflections on the nature of vocation

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Parabola 21:1

Prophets and Prophecy

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"What Manner of Man is the Prophet?" by Abraham J. Heschel - A classic inquiry

"The First Prophet: An Interview with Seyyed Hossein Nasr" - Divine reality in the world of creation

"Partial Revelation of the Truth" by Walter Gardini - A modern prophet’s theory of education

"The Rushing Wind" by Rebecca Robison - An Illustrated Poem

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Parabola 20:2

The Stranger

, ISBN Pb 20:2 / 978Pb 20:2, Parabola

"Longing for Wholeness: An interview with Satish Kumar" - Being an insider and an outsider at the same time

"Dweller on the Plain" by Eliezer Shore - Transcending the boundaries

"The Bridge of Well-Being" by Mark Nepo - The stranger, the fellow, the completing other

"Original Face" by Jennie Koralek - Moments beyond the ordinary

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Parabola 1:4

Rites of Passage

, ISBN Pb 1:4 / 978Pb 1:4, Parabola

"The Liturgy of Noh" by Frederick Franck - An exponent of the Zen of seeing expresses, in text and drawings, the wealth of feeling and wisdom that is communicated in the spare, rigorous performance of Noh.

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The Hero

, ISBN Pb 1:1 / 978Pb 1:1, Parabola

"Nostalgia for Paradise" by Mircea Eliade - The search for transcendent reality

"The Huichol and the Quest for Paradise" by Barbara Myerhoff - A journey to the sacred land of Wirikuta

"A Circular World: The Vision of Navajo Crafts" by Barre Toelken - An illustrated exhibition of the making of Navajo artifacts

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Parabola 19:3

Clothing

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"Bodies of Sleep, Garments of Skins" by Stuart Smithers - Ancient views of the relationship between body and soul

"Dangerous Outfits" by Nouk Bassomb - Be careful where you go in borrowed clothes

"Pascal’s Jacket" by Noelle Oxenhandler - A meditation on hiddenness

"Every Robe He Dons Becomes Him" by Shawkat M. Toorawa - Images of clothing in the Islamic tradition