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…
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…
Intelligence and Service
Lee van Laer, Red-Tailed Hawk, Piermont, NY Like the rest of the Parabola readership, I’ve been watching the developments on the borders of Europe — the…
The Golden Ticket, by Tracy Cochran
Chainfoto24, Wat Maha That, Sukhothai (Wikimedia Commons) One day recently, a Buddhist monk stopped me on the street in Manhattan, offering me peace for the…
Determination, by Tracy Cochran
Lawren Harris (Can. 1885-1970), Beaver Swamp, Algoma, 1920, oil on canvas. “If we could surrender to Earth’s intelligence, we would rise up rooted, like trees.” ―Rainer…