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VOL. 02:4
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Parabola's Winter 1977 issue: Relationships We know nothing, in fact, and can learn nothing, except by means of contact and comparison with other things and other people. The family is only the beginning of our education in rubbing elbows with the world, but as such it forms the basis for all our future participation. Beyond the family we are born into, based on the family, come all the other exchanges with friends and lovers, teachers, masters, dependents, husband and wife, son and daughter. And beyond all these is all of life in all its forms and manifestations, for what is there that is not in relation with something else? And below them, within them, conditioning them all, taught and formed by them all, is the relation with oneself, and the possible return to one's own deepest sources. --from the editorial Focus Cover: Virgin and Child School of Auvergne, twelfth century Metropolitan Museum of Art In this issue:
"Of Majesties and Majesty" by Frederick Franck
- In the seventh century, the Empress of China begged a Buddhist master for a demonstration that would clarify the mystery of the "All in All" and the "One in All." An appreciation of his brilliant solution.
"Strangers at the Gate" by Robert E. Meagher
- An exploration of the ancient rites of hospitality and how they reveal our common humanity
"The Thunder, Perfect Mind"
- The first appearance in English of an arresting and powerful fragment from the Gnostic writings at Nag Hammadi
"Laws and Customs in a Brahmin Family" by Lizelle Reymond
- The subtleties of relationships in a traditional Indian household as experienced by a Western woman
"Selections from Essentials: Definitions and Aphorisms" by Jean Toomer
- Best known as the author of Cane, Toomer published these observations "on the nature and forms of human experience" in a private edition in 1931. The second in a series of excerpts.
"The Coat" by Shems Friedlander
- The unique Sufic relationship between teacher and disciple, in an intense and dramatic evocation
"Indra's Net--Reflections on Relationships"
- Insights into our interwoven human experience
"The Demands of Harmony--An Appreciation of Navajo Relationships" by Barre Toelken
- A challenging and provocative essay which indicates a way to approach a view of life radically different from our own
"Teling Stories: A conversation with Diane Wolkstein and Paul Jordan-Smith"
- The experience of storytellers who keep an age-old art alive and well in our time
"Two Poems" by Jane Yolen
Tangents - Reviews
Frederick Franck on The Grand Kabuki
Victor Perera on the filmChac
Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world
"Oedipus" / Greek retold by Paul Jordan-Smith
"Tales of a Demon: The Misleading Footprints" / Indian retold by Paul Jordan-Smith
"The Blacksmith's Tale" / Irish retold by Alen MacWeeny
"The Judgment" and "Uninvited Guests" / Middle Eastern retold by Paul Jordan-Smith
