Parabola 38:4 Winter 2013-2014

Power

8 FOUR MEDITATIONS ON SEEING David Appelbaum
With reference to Meister Eckhart

SEEKING VERITY Tracy Cochran
Finding the infinite in the finite

THE WORLD IS A SPIRIT VESSEL Robert Meikyo Rosenbaum
The Tao of Zen, the Zen of the Tao

THE HOLY BEGGAR OF WEST END AVENUE Yitta Halberstam Mandelbaum
Generosity as a way to liberation

HOW TO ANSWER A SPIRITUAL QUESTION Lillian Firestone
What makes an answer real?

PREPARING TO DIE Andrew Holecek
Letting go of life

LET THEM BE Luis Fernando Llosa
The jungle of youth sports

HARMONICA LIBERATION David Harp
The Strange Case of Ms. G.

“ALAS! MY BLADE IS BROKEN” Robert Tindall
A lesson learned at the very last moment

INTIMATIONS Stephan Gersh
, Photographs

UNBURDENED BY THEORY Carol Lee Flinders
Jane Goodall finds a way

TRUTH TELLING
A conversation with Grace Dammann

THE DEMANDS OF THE WAY Tcheslaw Tchekhovitch
A spiritual master on what it takes

LIBERATING GOD FROM HEAVEN James Reho
Finding the sacred in our world

THE FOOTSTEPS DIE OUT FOR EVER Charles Dickens
It is a far, far better rest they go to

HOW RENUNCIATION DIFFERS FROM ABANDONMENT
  Gavin Flood and Charles Martin
Wisdom from a new translation of the Bhagavad-Gita
POEMS
Three poems by Mark Nepo

Saturated

Where Is God?

Transformation
EPICYCLE

THE UNASKED QUESTION Retold by Paul Jordan-Smith
A classic quest seen anew
BOOK REVIEWs

TRAUMA AND THE SOUL
Donald Kalsched | reviewed by Patty de Llosa

ADI DA SAMRAJ—REALIZED OR/AND DELUDED?
William Patrick Patterson | reviewed by John Robert Colombo

THE CHOSEN RIVER
William Dudley | reviewed by John Whittaker

ENDPOINT

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