Parabola Magazine

Dance Around The Golden Calf by Emil Nolde

Worshipping Illusions: An Interview with Marion Woodman

June 22, 2017By Parabola Editors

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

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 Summer Issue, Happiness.

Parabola: The Search for Meaning : Free Complete Digital Index, 1976-2017

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

Meditation and Service: A Conversation with Nipun Mehta

May 7, 2017By Parabola Editors

A conversation with visionary philanthropist Nipun Mehta

Tashi & The Monk, Directed by Andrew Hinton & Johnny Burke

April 28, 2017By Parabola Editors

On a remote mountaintop a brave social experiment is taking place.

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Jack Kerouac’s Golden Eternity

March 12, 2017By Parabola Editors

Jack Kerouac was a literary iconoclast in the mid-1950s, and sent the text above in a letter to his first wife, a decade after their marriage had been annulled.

Endpoint from “The Divine Feminine,” Spring 2016

March 8, 2017By Parabola Editors

Despite a growing awareness of the Divine Feminine, women remain ineligible to head many major religious groups and institutions […]

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.

The Unasked Question, Retold by Paul Jordan-Smith

A classic quest seen anew

On Being Nobody…and No One, by Tracy Cochran

How deeply we fear being nobody. One way to think of the ego is as a defense against pain, particularly the pain of being no one.

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.

Parabola Podcast, Episode 17: “Happiness”

Story Editor Betsy Cornwell looks at our current issue, “Happiness,” in our free monthly twenty-minute podcast

Stephen Weiss, MD, portrait of Brother David Steindl-Rast, Mt. Saviour Monastery, Elmira, NY

Learning to Die, by Brother David Steindl-Rast

The only point where one can start to talk about anything, including death, is where one finds oneself. And for me this is as a Benedictine monk. In the rule of St. Benedict, the momenta […]

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

Housework as spiritual practice, from a Sufi master

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

“The true feminine is the receptacle of love. The true masculine is the spirit that goes into the eternal unknown in search of meaning. The great container, the Self, is paradoxically both male and female […]

Hearing the Cries of the World, by Mark Nepo

This story is so old we don’t know who told it or who it’s about, except that it speaks to all of us. We no longer know if it was a “he” or “she” at the center of the story. […]

To Go Beyond Thought, an Interview with Karen Armstrong

One bright spring day, Parabola met with Karen Armstrong in her suite at the Parker Meridian hotel in Manhattan. The petite, friendly 62-year-old British ex-nun, arguably the most influential commentator on religion in the English-speaking […]

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