Parabola
Parabola 7:1
Sleep
, ISBN Pb 7:1 / 978Pb 7:1, Parabola
"Why Sleepest Thou, O Lord?" by Henri Tracol - States of being and stages of awakening
"Mythologies of Sleep and Forgetting" by Mircea Eliade - The mortal "sleep" of the fallen soul
"Life’s a Dream" - An excerpt from Kathleen Raine’s translation of Calderón’s play
"Sleep and the Inner Landscape" - An interview with Dr. Yeshi Dhonden by William and Marielle Segal
ARCS: A portfolio of sleep quotations
"Krishna and King Mucukunda: The Sleeper Awakened" by Heinrich Zimmer - King Mucukunda’s cosmic sleep, newly translated into English
"Lines to a Granny" by A.K. Ramanujan - A poem
"The Study of the Torah as Awakening" by Jonathan Omer-Man - Levels of reality and spiritual growth
"Time out of Time" by Paul Jordan-Smith - Time in myth and fairy tale
"The Life of Sleeping Men" by P.D. Ouspensky - Gurdjieff’s view
"On Waking Up" - An interview with Joseph Campbell by Douglas Auchincloss
"The Seventh Day" by P.L. Travers - On the seventh day God rested
Tangents - Reviews
"The Unblinking Eye: Passages to India, and Beyond" by Rob Baker - The camera never sleeps
"Traveling Temple Treasures" by Frederick Franck - Sacred statues from Buddhist Japan
"Cheyenne Culture Ledgers" by Joseph Epes Brown - A review with pictures of Peter Powell’s People of the Sacred Mountain
Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world
"Launcelot at the Grail Chapel" / English
"The Keys of the Temple" / Jewish
"Humming Home Your Shadow" / Hoopa
"The One You Don’t See Coming" / African
"The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus" / Christian
"The Two Rivers" / Russian
"The Concealed Deer" / China
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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On the American continent please order directly from: www.parabola.org.)