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Going Home, by Ram Dass & Mirabai Bush
By Mirabai Bush on July 28, 2018

Welcoming the end of the journey

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Honey Song, by Neil Rusch
By Neil Rusch on July 28, 2018

What the bees—and the Bushmen—know

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Speechless, by Tracy Cochran
By Tracy Cochran on July 28, 2018

A meditation teacher loses her voice—and finds her way

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A Week at the Hermitage, by Br. Paul Quenon, O.C.S.O.
By Br. Paul Quenon on July 28, 2018

A Trappist monk’s sojourn at Thomas Merton’s hermitage

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How to Open Ourselves Out: A Conversation with Abhijata Iyengar
By Annie Schliffer on July 28, 2018

Exploring yoga with the guru’s granddaughter

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Equipment List for the Journey Home, by Trebbe Johnson
By Trebbe Johnson on July 28, 2018

A guide to exploring, inner and outer

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BLACK ELK, LAKOTA VISIONARY: The Oglala Holy Man and Sioux Tradition
By Samuel Bendeck Sotillos on July 28, 2018

BLACK ELK, LAKOTA VISIONARY: The Oglala Holy Man and Sioux Tradition. Reviewed by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos.

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Parabola Podcast Episode 31: The Journey Home

Betsy Cornwell shares Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush’s “Going Home” and Emily Dickinson’s poem “Our Journey Had Advanced” in this episode of our free monthly podcast.

Going Home, by Ram Dass & Mirabai Bush

Welcoming the end of the journey

Speechless, by Tracy Cochran

A meditation teacher loses her voice—and finds her way

A Parabola Bestiary: Coyotes, by Peter Beagle

The trickster, the shape shifter, the god–the coyote

A Parabola Bestiary: Sea Creatures, by Robert Bly

Finding life between sand and sea

A Parabola Bestiary: Goat, by Joseph Cary

The trouble with goats

A Parabola Bestiary: Lion, by Vincent Rossi

Finding the true king in his cage

IN MEMORIAM: Worshipping Illusions: An Interview with Marion Woodman

In the Summer of 1987, Parabola sat down for an exchange with Marion Woodman on the subject of addiction.

Repairing the Fabric of the World, A Conversation with Jonathan F.P. Rose

A conversation with civic visionary Jonathan F.P. Rose

Lie and Glorious Adjective, an Excerpt from an Interview with Peter Brook

What effect does [wearing a mask] have on the person wearing it?

The Wisdom of the Animals, by Phil Borges

A conversation with wildlife educator Steve Karlin

Inanna and the Land of No Return, by Rachel Nora Greene

A child retells the legend of the Sumerian goddess Inanna and her descent to the Nether World.

Three Poems, by Mark Nepo

Heavy drops, carrying more | than they can bear, fall from no- | where, bending leaves already | sagging, and one by one, | the leaves let go.

Yu Xuanji, “At Home in the Summer Mountains,” translated by Jane Hirschfield

A poem by Yu Xuanji from the Winter of 1994.

Ceremony, an Aztec myth, By Fray Juan de Torquemada and Translated by David Johnson

How the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca created a fiesta of music.

Izanagi and Izanami, a Japanese myth, Retold by Paul Jordan-Smith

How the goddess of creation became the goddess of death

Ring of Wisdom, a Sufi Parable, Retold by Anne Twitty

A Sufi king seeks a ring of great power.

The First Tears, an Eskimo folktale, Retold by Anne Twitty

How the First People learned to cry.

Parabola Podcast Episode 32: Animals

Story editor Betsy Cornwell shares Ursula K. Legion’s “A Parabola Bestiary: Bear” and Eleanor O’Hanlon’s “Remarkable Beings” in this episode of Parabola magazine’s free monthly podcast

Parabola Podcast Episode 31: The Journey Home

Betsy Cornwell shares Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush’s “Going Home” and Emily Dickinson’s poem “Our Journey Had Advanced” in this episode of our free monthly podcast.

Illustration by Julia Cairns for "A Full Moon Is Rising" by Marilyn Singer (Lee & Low Books, 2011)

Parabola Podcast, Episode 30: Together

Story editor Betsy Cornwell shares editorial director Tracy Cochran’s “Fusterlandia” and Elizabeth Napp’s “An Education in Peace,” as well as some wise words on leadership from Octavia Butler, in this episode of Parabola Magazine’s free monthly podcast.