Parabola

Parabola 30:1

Awakening

, ISBN Pb 30:1 / 978Pb 30:1, Parabola

"Wake-up Calls: Some Ancient Hindu Myths" by Wendy Doniger
- Reincarnation and deja-vu

"Passing Through the Sun-door" by Peter Samsel
- Liberation from the realm of contraries

"I Sleep, but My Heart Is Awake"
- An Interview with Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz

"Slumber Seizes Him Not" by William C. Chittick
- The remedy for forgetfulness

"Waking" by Linda Hogan
- Daily there is beauty

"What Do You See When You’re Awake?"
- Views from Martha Heyneman, Stephen Batchelor, Robert Aitken, Pir Zia Inayat Khan, Kate Wheeler, Marion Woodman, Thomas Moore, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, Rabbi Rami Shapiro

"The Hidden Union" by Jacob Needleman
- Transformational knowing

"Sensations" by Sri Anirvan
- The harmonious body

"Eight Awakenings of Great Beings" by Dogen Zenji
- The last teaching of Shakyamuni Buddha


EPIPHANIES
"The Liberating Shock" by Paramahansa Yogananda


SCIENCE AND THE SACRED
"In the Zone of Complexity" by Holmes Rolston III
- Who we are, where we are


IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE ANCESTORS
"Remember Where You Are" by Marcos Terena, as interviewed by Briane Keane
- The struggle for a new society


TANGENTS
"A Voice in the Present" by Peter Brook
- William J. Welch reads Gurdjieff’s Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson
"Artist of Light" by Michael Balchunas
- James Turrell’s Roden Crater


POETRY
"Golden Lines" by Gerard de Nerval (translated by Robert Bly)
"The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck
"Witness" by Denise Levertov
from "Middle of the Way" by Galway Kinnell


EPICYCLES - Traditional stories from around the world
"Sleeping Arthur" by Jane Yolen
"Jacob the Angel" by Howard Schwartz
"Opening One Eye at a Time" by Anne Twitty
"Beauty Sleeping" by Ellen Kushner


REVIEWS
Resistance by Barry Lopez | reviewed by Doug Thorpe
Living Dreaming Dying by Rob Nairn | reviewed by Anne Overzee
A Course in Miracles by Helen Schucman | reviewed by Richard Smoley
Pain, Sex and Time by Gerald Heard | reviewed by Marvin Barrett
Legendary Ireland by Eithne Massey | reviewed by Mara Freeman

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Parabola is published quarterly by the Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition. Each issue includes: * Original articles and interviews on mythology, spiritual practice, religious tradition, literature, popular culture, science, and the arts * Retellings of traditional stories, myths, and fairy tales * Book reviews * Comments on contemporary film, theater, music, art, and events * Artwork ranging from the traditional to the contemporary

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