Category: Conversations

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 world, was on tour to promote her latest bestselling book.  Lauded by critics as “magisterial” and “magnificent,” The Great Transformation…

The Gates of Paradise

Shamanic memories from an Indian visionary

Wonder is a Level Within Us: A conversation with Rabbi Dr. Raphael Shuchat

Grand Aleph jaune. Photograph by Renaud Camus

A conversation with Kabbalah expert Rabbi Dr. Raphael Shuchat

Make This Moment a Diamond

A conversation with Italian priest and spiritual guide Father Guidalberto Bormolini

Pure Gold

Arjuna (l.) and Krishna (r.). From God Talks With Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita, by Paramahansa Yogananda. By and courtesy of Self-Realization Fellowship, Los Angeles, California

A conversation with Brother Satyananda of Self-Realization Fellowship

Friendship

Photograph by Grégoire Hervé-Bazin. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

A journalist and a monk exchange revelatory letters

A Path of Love and Freedom

Qu’ran cover (detail). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Author: ~crystalina~.

A conversation with Sufi master Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Stroked

Ram Dass by by Rameshwar Das

A great teacher meets his ultimate challenge

Awakening in the Yard D Sangha

Courtesy of Pham Yen on Unsplash.com

A conversation with former prisoner and Buddhist practitioner Edwin Paragas

Moving Toward Hope: A Conversation with Elaine Pagels

How can religious tradition be literally true when language is symbolic, intrinsically?