Whence Cometh Our Help: An Exploration with Roger Lipsey (Video)
Are we the generation that will lose the Earth?
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Coronavirus: A New Responsibility
Institutions can give the money, but they don’t dispense the compassion. That’s up to us. We need, as individuals and as a society, to take a long hard look this question. We should begin now, because the question is being forced upon us with an urgency that will only become apparent later, after the excitement of disease is over.
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A Free Gift for You in These Challenging Times
A free PDF of our ALONE & TOGETHER issue from summer 2012 to read in these challenging times.
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The Monkey and the River, by Mark Nepo
The simplest and hardest thing to do each day is to be here–fully, completely, without turning away.
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Moving Toward Hope: A Conversation with Elaine Pagels
How can religious tradition be literally true when language is symbolic, intrinsically?
Current Issue
Whence Cometh Our Help?
Guidance for our time from three wise men
The Monkey and the River, by Mark Nepo
The simplest and hardest thing to do each day is to be here–fully, completely, without turning away.
A Night in the Forest, by Tracy Cochran
In the darkness, the Buddha found light
Web Exclusives
Coronavirus: A New Responsibility
Institutions can give the money, but they don’t dispense the compassion. That’s up to us. We need, as individuals and as a society, to take a long hard look this question. We should begin now, because the question is being forced upon us with an urgency that will only become apparent later, after the excitement of disease is over.
A Free Gift for You in These Challenging Times
A free PDF of our ALONE & TOGETHER issue from summer 2012 to read in these challenging times.
Whence Cometh Our Help: An Exploration with Roger Lipsey (Video)
Are we the generation that will lose the Earth?
Sheela Na Gig
Fertility, birth and death, ferocity, protection, sexuality: all of these are surely aspects of the goddess, and not mutually exclusive of each other.
Essays
Whence Cometh Our Help?
Guidance for our time from three wise men
A Night in the Forest, by Tracy Cochran
In the darkness, the Buddha found light
Holy Women
Four role models for all who seek the sacred
Butternut Goddess
Discovering the divine in her own backyard
Conversations
Earth as Goddess: A conversation with African healer and guide Baba Mandaza Augustine Kademwa
A conversation with African healer and guide Baba Mandaza Augustine Kademwa
A Conversation with Alexandra Isles
I follow two rules. The first is that my presence is invisible and silent. The film belongs to the storytellers. The second is to do as much research as possible, trust the material, and never film re-creations.
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.
“A Wing And A Prayer,” An Interview with Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori
An Interview with Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church from November 4, 2006 until November 1, 2015.
Poetry
Entrance, by Rainer Maria Rilke
Whoever you are: in the evening step out | of your room, where you know everything …
Pulitzer-winning poet Mary Oliver has died at 83
Mary Oliver was an astonishing poet beloved by many and also a frequent contributor to PARABOLA over the years.
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 Jane Yolen
Three Poems by Jane Yolen
Epicycles
Sarabha-miga Jataka, The Noble Stag, Retold by Margo McLoughlin
An anonymous Buddhist tale translated from the Pali and retold by Margo McLoughlin
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.
Podcast
Parabola Podcast Episode 43: God
“For it seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to […]
Parabola Podcast Episode 42: Goddess
The Descent offers a chance to look clearly at tired habits of thought and action. A woman may finally admit to an addiction or see how some long-denied pattern of action has failed her time […]
Parabola Podcast Episode 41: Androgyny
“At the very outset of the journey inwards, there is a crossroads. Signs point in both directions, and I am pulled both ways. I find that I am double. I want something and at the […]
Parabola Podcast Episode 40: Mercy & Forgiveness
This episode shares excerpts from Parabola‘s current issue, “Mercy and Forgiveness.”
Book Reviews
GURDJIEFF RECONSIDERED: The Life, the Teachings, The Legacy
“GURDJIEFF RECONSIDERED: The Life, the Teachings, The Legacy” by Roger Lipsey. Reviewed by Jeff Zaleski
THE STILLNESS OF THE LIVING FOREST: A Year of Listening and Learning
THE STILLNESS OF THE LIVING FOREST: A Year of Listening and Learning by John Harvey. Reviewed by Jan Cheripko
TIMELESS IN TIME: Sri Ramana Maharshi
TIMELESS IN TIME: Sri Ramana Maharshi. Reviewed by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos.
BLACK ELK, LAKOTA VISIONARY: The Oglala Holy Man and Sioux Tradition
BLACK ELK, LAKOTA VISIONARY: The Oglala Holy Man and Sioux Tradition. Reviewed by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos.