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VOL. 01:2
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$12.50
Parabola's Summer 1976 issue: Magic Magic, when it is not just trickery, seems to play with laws, to make the magician's will the supreme agent. The word itself comes from a root meaning "to be able, to have power." The magician is the magus, the mighty one, the worker of miracles. What then is magic, what is a miracle? Where does the power come from? What laws is it above, and what laws is it under? For in the hierarchy of nature we know of nothing below the divine Absolute that does not obey the higher cause. What are the laws of magic? --from the editorial Focus Cover: Cover illustration by Ezra Jack Keats "A flower grows, but we don't know how or why.... We forget that life is magic." --Doug Henning, magician In this issue:
"Balancing between Worlds: The Shaman's Calling" by Barbara G. Myerhoff
- The shaman's special vocation and grace: to maintain an equilibrium between the worlds that sustain human existence
"Taking Castaneda Seriously" by Daniel C. Noel
- The quandary about how to approach Castaneda's work itself gives a clue to the direction of the path with heart
"The Way of the Wizard" by Robert S. Ellwood
- The persistence of wizardry into our time recalls the enduring connection between the magician and religious vision
"Magic, Sacrifice, and Tradition: Preliminary Notes" by Jacob Needleman
- Ground-breaking suggestions toward a new understanding of the traditional meaning of magic and sacrifice and their intimate relation to the religious quest
"The Bite of the Hunter's Ghost" by Victor W. Turner
- The techniques of an African chimbuki may tell us a great deal about our own cultural notions of sickness, health, and the dynamics of curing
"Narcissus" by Thomas W. Moore
- A fresh reading of this classic myth finds it more a tale of positive self-transformation than a tragic story of destructive self-love
"Divine Law, Human Justice" by Christmas Humphreys
- The difference between the two, explored by a man who is both a judge and one of the West's leading Buddhist scholars
"Living Myths"
- A conversation with Joseph Campbell
Tangents - Reviews
"Jung, in Thought and Feeling" by Robertson Davies
"The Ordeal of Mythlessness" by Ted Estess
Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world
"The Sin of Shah Kavus" / Persian
"Games of Xibalba" / Mayan
"Tales of a Demon: The Language of Signs" / Indian
"The Moon and the King's Son" / African
"Spells for the Man of Slack Water Farm" / Finnish
