Parabola | The Search for Meaning

Butternut Goddess
By Tracy Cochran on October 28, 2019

Discovering the divine in her own backyard

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Earth as Goddess: A conversation with African healer and guide Baba Mandaza Augustine Kademwa
By Thanissara on October 28, 2019

A conversation with African healer and guide Baba Mandaza Augustine Kademwa

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Inanna: Relevance and Return
By Christine Irving on October 28, 2019

A report from the new Goddess Spirituality

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Bob Dylan and the Goddess
By Ed Prideaux on October 28, 2019

The Nobel winner with his muses

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Altar Girl
By Sonja Livingston on October 28, 2019

Searching for her place in God’s house

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Spiritual Principles in Action, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee on July 25, 2019

The Sufi master on meeting the inner and outer challenges of our time

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Parabola Podcast Episode 42: Goddess

The Descent offers a chance to look clearly at tired habits of thought and action. A woman may finally admit to an addiction or see how some long-denied pattern of action has failed her time […]

Butternut Goddess

Discovering the divine in her own backyard

Earth as Goddess: A conversation with African healer and guide Baba Mandaza Augustine Kademwa

A conversation with African healer and guide Baba Mandaza Augustine Kademwa

Inanna: Relevance and Return

A report from the new Goddess Spirituality

Parabola Podcast Episode 42: Goddess

The Descent offers a chance to look clearly at tired habits of thought and action. A woman may finally admit to an addiction or see how some long-denied pattern of action has failed her time […]

Icon and Mirror, a Photo Project by Pola Rader

The photo project “Icon and Mirror” by Pola Rader analyzes the Orthodox woman and her social role in feminist context.

An Amazing Childhood Experience, by James Opie

A childhood memory leads to forgiveness and love

LETTERS FROM HELL

LETTERS FROM HELL by Valdemar Adolph Thisted. Preface by George MacDonald. Reviewed by Jan Cheripko

Inanna: Relevance and Return

A report from the new Goddess Spirituality

Bob Dylan in concert, Rotterdam de Kuip, June 23, 1978. Photograph by Chris Hakkens

A Statement from Martin Scorsese

The filmmaker writes about forgiveness and acceptance

Earth as Goddess: A conversation with African healer and guide Baba Mandaza Augustine Kademwa

A conversation with African healer and guide Baba Mandaza Augustine Kademwa

A Conversation with Alexandra Isles

I follow two rules. The first is that my presence is invisible and silent. The film belongs to the storytellers. The second is to do as much research as possible, trust the material, and never film re-creations.

Dance Around The Golden Calf by Emil Nolde

Worshipping Illusions: An Interview with Marion Woodman

In the Summer of 1987, Parabola sat down for an exchange with Marion Woodman on the subject of addiction.

“A Wing And A Prayer,” An Interview with Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori

An Interview with Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church from November 4, 2006 until November 1, 2015.

Poetry

Painting by Leonid Pasternak, Alexander Pushkin at the seashore

Entrance, by Rainer Maria Rilke

Whoever you are: in the evening step out | of your room, where you know everything …

Pulitzer-winning poet Mary Oliver has died at 83

Mary Oliver was an astonishing poet beloved by many and also a frequent contributor to PARABOLA over the years.

Inanna and the Land of No Return, by Rachel Nora Greene

A child retells the legend of the Sumerian goddess Inanna and her descent to the Nether World.

Three Poems by Jane Yolen

Epicycles

Sarabha-miga Jataka, The Noble Stag, Retold by Margo McLoughlin

An anonymous Buddhist tale translated from the Pali and retold by Margo McLoughlin

Ceremony, an Aztec myth, By Fray Juan de Torquemada and Translated by David Johnson

How the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca created a fiesta of music.

Izanagi and Izanami, a Japanese myth, Retold by Paul Jordan-Smith

How the goddess of creation became the goddess of death

Ring of Wisdom, a Sufi Parable, Retold by Anne Twitty

A Sufi king seeks a ring of great power.

Podcast

Parabola Podcast Episode 43: God

“For it seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to […]

Parabola Podcast Episode 42: Goddess

The Descent offers a chance to look clearly at tired habits of thought and action. A woman may finally admit to an addiction or see how some long-denied pattern of action has failed her time […]

Parabola Podcast Episode 41: Androgyny

“At the very outset of the journey inwards, there is a crossroads. Signs point in both directions, and I am pulled both ways. I find that I am double. I want something and at the […]