Let It Be: a guided meditation with Tracy Cochran
A guided meditation on being gentle with yourself when things are hard, with Parabola’s editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola’s mission, please consider donating.
A Statement from Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese. Martin Scorsese Collection, NY I’ve subscribed to Parabola for thirty years, and I’ve saved every copy of the magazine. I always look forward to reading the latest issue. It’s given me spiritual sustenance—no other way to say it.…
On Being Nobody…and No One, by Tracy Cochran
Ivan Aivazovsky, Between the Waves, 1898 How deeply we fear being nobody. One way to think of the ego is as a defense against pain, particularly the pain of being no one. It shores us up,…
Parabola: The Search for Meaning : Free Complete Digital Index, 1976-2019
The Gurdjieff Foundation of Illinois has generously assembled a free searchable index for Parabola magazine readers. The index will allow rapid and in-depth access to any topic/author/title covered by over 40 years of Parabola’s publications. BACKGROUND Four times a year, since…
Let it Be, by Tracy Cochran
King gave his most famous speech, “I Have a Dream”, before the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (Wikipedia) When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes…
Renewal at the Rubin Museum
Steve McCurry, A man during the Indian festival of Holi, Rajasthan, India In January, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan, a group of us practiced…
Alice Coltrane’s “Om Shanti”
Alice Coltrane Have a listen to this beautiful soaring track by the late Alice Coltrane, “Om Shanti,” appearing on Luaka Bop’s forthcoming collection entitled World Spirituality…
Snow Day Reflection, by Tracy Cochran
Valerius de Saedeleer (1876-1946), Winter Landscape There are different kinds of realizations. They are not always lightening bolts but sometimes soft and slow, as if snow…
The Inner Forms the Outer
Photograph by Lee van Laer Human beings are peculiar creatures. We can think; and it sets us apart from other creatures, who can think some (consider…