Parabola Magazine

IN MEMORIAM: Worshipping Illusions: An Interview with Marion Woodman

June 10, 2018By Parabola Editors

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

Parabola Volume 43, No. 1, Spring 2018: Wealth

April 29, 2018By Parabola Editors

Parabola Volume 43, No. 1, Spring 2018: Wealth

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

January 10, 2018By Parabola Editors

A conversation with civic visionary Jonathan F.P. Rose

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

October 31, 2017By Parabola Editors

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

The Unasked Question, Retold by Paul Jordan-Smith

June 9, 2017By Parabola Editors

A classic quest seen anew

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

May 26, 2017By Parabola Editors

A poem by Yu Xuanji from the Winter of 1994.

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 50

May 25, 2017By Parabola Editors

A poem by Walt Whitman in our issue, Happiness.

Parabola: The Search for Meaning : Free Complete Digital Index, 1976-2018

May 24, 2017By Parabola Editors

The Gurdjieff Foundation of Illinois has generously assembled a free searchable index for Parabola magazine readers.

Riding Out at Evening, by Linda McCarriston

May 9, 2017By Parabola Editors

A poem by Linda McCarriston

Providence, by A. R. Ammons

May 9, 2017By Parabola Editors

A short poem by A. R. Ammons

What is the miraculous? Our first thought may be that it concerns a supernatural and sensational event. And yet this Summer 2018 issue of Parabola reveals that the most ordinary action—digging a garden or cooking a meal or making art—becomes sensational when it is performed with mindful awareness of what we are doing. Any action may be automatic or creative, repetitious or truly alive, participating in the life that is happening in the instant: “The situation is completely different when my action is not a repetition but something new, an action that can only take place in the present moment to respond to a need that I recognize right now,” writes Jeanne de Salzmann in this issue. Read more>

Parabola Magazine

IN MEMORIAM: Worshipping Illusions: An Interview with Marion Woodman

Parabola Volume 43, No. 1, Spring 2018: Wealth

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

The Unasked Question, Retold by Paul Jordan-Smith

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

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 50

Parabola: The Search for Meaning : Free Complete Digital Index, 1976-2018

Riding Out at Evening, by Linda McCarriston

Providence, by A. R. Ammons

Learning to Die, by Brother David Steindl-Rast

The Art of Cleaning, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and Hilary Hart

Marion Woodman and the Search for the Conscious Feminine, by Patty de Llosa

Hearing the Cries of the World, by Mark Nepo

To Go Beyond Thought, an Interview with Karen Armstrong