Parabola

Parabola 15:3

Liberation

, ISBN Pb 15:3 / 978Pb 15:3, Parabola

"The Voice of the Master" by Karlfried Graf Dürckheim - Listening, responding, and letting go

"Testimony at Seventy" by Marvin Barrett - Two moments of real change

"Inner Slavery": an early talk of G. I. Gurdjieff - Mrs. Vanity and Mr. Self-Love

"Unknown Childhood" by P. L. Travers - Stories, loss, and self-recovery

"The Freedom of Children" - A conversation with Henry Barnes and Margaret Flinsch

"Leaving the Known for the Unknown" by Marie Milis - The inner dimension of mathematical problem-solving

ARCS: "A Dim Capacity for Wings" - selected by Hanna M. Loewy

"The Sleeping Dragon" by Peter Brook - The parabolic curve of myth

"Renunciation of Liberation" by Stuart Smithers - The path of radical non-attachment to results

"The Body and the Machine" by Wendell Berry - Back to the basics of shared needs

"Rethinking Jonah" by James L. Bull - The denial of addictive slavery

"Living Liberation at a Passover Seder" by Philip J. Bentley - The Exodus as a rite of passage

"The Ten Oxherding Pictures": a commentary by William Segal - The straying and reharnessing of the self

Tangents - reviews
"Not at Home: The Search for the Father" by David Appelbaum - Thoughts on a conversation between Bill Moyers and Robert Bly

Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world

"Joseph in Egypt" / Biblical - retold by Paul Jordan-Smith
"Three Parables of Liberation" / Hindu and Jewish - by Heinrich Zimmer
"The Legend of Cola Pesce" / Sicilian - by Anthony Fragola
"Tam Lin" / Scottish - by Kevin Crossley-Holland

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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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On the American continent please order directly from: www.parabola.org.)