Richard Whittaker

About the Author

Richard Whittaker is the West Coast Editor of Parabola and is the founding editor of works & conversations. A collection of his interviews, The Conversations, Interviews with Sixteen Contemprary Artists, is available from the University of Nebraska Press.

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On Hopelessness and Hope: A Conversation with Deep Psychologist Michael Penn

October 27, 2018By Richard Whittaker

A conversation with deep psychologist Michael Penn

To Try To Have Some Healing, A Conversation with Silas Hagerty

November 22, 2016By Richard Whittaker

Silas Hagerty was a young filmmaker in his twenties when I met him at a Servicespace retreat. […]

Two acclaimed filmmakers open this issue of “She is the holy Oneness; that’s why she is a mystery,” says the African healer and guide Baba Mandaza Augustine Kademwa, in conversation with the Buddhist teacher Thanissara in this Winter 2019-2020 issue of Parabola. He speaks of Mother Earth, whom he says accepts to be called by many names, including Goddess. But this issue on Goddess reveals that she is always to some degree unknown. “The brain isn’t the highest human function,” points out physician and author Rachel Naomi Remen in conversation here with Parabola’s West Coast editor Richard Whittaker. “The highest human function is shrouded in mystery.” Read more>

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