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VOL. 04:1
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$12.50
Parabola's Spring 1979 issue: The Trickster Who will teach us to discriminate, and are we ready to be taught? The true trickster, mixing up everything in impossible contradictions, shocks us into a greater clarity; the false trickster makes us believe that the opposites are the same. Jones of Jonestown, the leader of the People's Temple which came to its macabre end in Guyana, trained his followers with a frequent ritual potion of fruit juice to drink cyanide when he bade them. But the holy trickster makes it impossible for us to follow him blindly; he shakes us awake to stand on our own feet and make our own decisions. Yet without his help, we never could have made them. --from the editorial Focus Cover: "The Spider Trickster" by Julie Durrell In this issue:
"One More Smile for a Hopi Clown" by Emory Sekaquaptewa
- A man's last wish reveals the profound character of the clown's role
"The Way of Blame" by Michel Waldberg
- Inner growth through outer shock--an ancient method exemplified in the teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff
"Craftsman of Chaos" by Lynda Sexson
- Insuring that nothing ever makes too much sense, the fool of the Tarot informs and confuses the rest of the pack
"The Youngest Brother" by P. L. Travers
- Illustrated with the art of Cecil Collins. An inquiry into the concept of the Third Son,
Arcs: "Holy Laughter"
- Notes on the method in madness
"The Wisdom of the Contrary: A conversation with Joseph Epes Brown"
- The well-known friend and student of the Sioux discusses the deep meaning of the Heyhoka and remembers his teacher, Black Elk
"Boundaries of Belief" by Barbara Tedlock
- The terrifying courage of the Zuni clowns in the service of their people
"The Hodja" by David Leeming
- Nasreddin as Rumi's comic shadow
Tangents - Reviews
"The Uses of the Past" by Roger Lipsey
- Tutankhamun at the Met--beyond the cliches
"Path to the Center" by Peter Awn
- The Whirling Dervishes in "performance"
"Good News, Mostly" by John Loudon
- St. Mark's Gospel as a one-man show
"A Mythhandled Miss" by Frederick Franck
- Eric Rohmer's film of Perceval: an avant-garde look at the Holy Fool
Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world
"Beyond the Seer of Lublin" / Jewish retold by Diane Wolkstein
"Our Lady's Tumbler" / French retold by D. M. Dooling
"The Master Thief" / Haitian
"How Salmon Got Greasy Eyes" / Coos-Coquille retold by Will Wasson
"The Tortoise and His Creditors" / Igbo (African) retold by Peter Thomas
