A poem by Walt Whitman in our issue, Happiness.
Author: Parabola Editors
The Gurdjieff Foundation of Illinois has generously assembled a free searchable index for Parabola magazine readers.
A conversation with visionary philanthropist Nipun Mehta
Despite a growing awareness of the Divine Feminine, women remain ineligible to head many major religious groups and institutions […]
Kuzunoha is a popular figure in Japanese folklore
An interview with Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai
Parabola’s first issue, Winter 1976, included the magazine’s first interview. Conducted by then-editor John Loudon, it questioned religion scholar Huston Smith, author of the bestseller The Religions of Man, whom Loudon described as “a man who has traveled widely, but deeply, learning the many languages for what is primordially true.”
Mullah Nasr Eddin, or Hodja Nasr Eddin, is a legendary Turkish teller of tales, a sort of wise fool, to whom all sorts of exploits are attributed.
Today we have gathered and we see that the cycles of life continue. We have been given the duty to live in balance and harmony with each other and all living things. […]
Over 2,500 years ago, Peter Kingsley tells us, Parmenides and Empedocles laid the basic foundations for the world and culture we now live in.