Parabola

Parabola 33:3

Man & Machine

ISBN 0362-1596 / Pb 33:3, Parabola

Contents:

NOTES ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND SPIRITUAL SEARCH Ravi Ravindra
Two paths toward the unknown

THE END OF KNOWLEDGE
A conversation with Ravi Ravindra

AFTER THE MOVERS HAVE LEFT Margaret Pierpont
The mind on meditation retreat

WHAT DOES IT MEAN THAT A PERSON IS MECHANICAL? Maurice Nicoll
A radical reassessment of the human machine

WHERE THE MEANINGS ARE Ilan Amit
What happens when the machine begins to break down?

WINDOWS TO INFINITY James Opie
The rise and decline of meaning in the art of carpet making

DIGITAL SILENCE Laura Hope-Gill
A deaf woman learns to hear the unheard

ANCIENT MYTH AND MODERN SCIENCE John David Ebert
Unexpected parallels and strange convergences

QUIRKS IN THE MECHANISM Erynn Sosinski
Searching for the soul of the puppet

THE MAN OF TODAY Pope John Paul II
On technology and the spirit

THE INDWELLING SPIRIT Sri Aurobindo
The conscious triumph of evolution

ISLAM AND SCIENCE Ibrahim Kalin
An ongoing debate

A WEBSITE GROWS IN BROOKLYN Jeff Zaleski
A visit to the Chabad-Lubavitch webmaster

THE NEW YEAR Adin Steinsaltz
Transforming repetition into renewal

IN MEMORIAM
LOBSANG LHALUNGPA Roger Lipsey
A Teacher of Tibet

 

ARCS
WHAT ARE THE INVENTIONS OF MAN?

TANGENTS
THE MACHINE OF THE MIND Nan Runde
Of cyborgs, humanity, and the future



EPICYCLES
DAEDALUS AND ICARUS Ovid | Greco-Roman
JOHN HENRY Anonymous | American


BOOK REVIEWS
THE PALACE OF ILLUSIONS
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | reviewed by Tara Menon

CONSCIOUS LOVE
Richard Smoley | reviewed by Mark John Franklin

THE WISE HEART
Jack Kornfield | reviewed by Bill Williams

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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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