Podcast

Parabola Podcast, Episode 19: “The Sacred”

August 1, 2017By Betsy Cornwell

Story editor Betsy Cornwell looks at our current issue, “The Sacred,” and reads Samuel Bendeck Sotillos’ “Spirit of the Earth: Indian Voices on Nature” and her own essay “The Fairies’ Right of Way.”

Parabola Podcast, Episode 18: Epicycles

July 1, 2017By Betsy Cornwell

Story editor Betsy Cornwell shares three epicycles from our vast archives.

Parabola Podcast, Episode 17: “Happiness”

June 1, 2017By Betsy Cornwell

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

Parabola Podcast, Episode 16: “Mythic Origins”

May 2, 2017By Betsy Cornwell

Story Editor Betsy Cornwell looks at the first-ever issue of Parabola, “The Hero.” Excerpts include PL Travers’ beautiful essay on the origins and the uses of mythic symbols. Please consider supporting this podcast and Parabola […]

Parabola Podcast, Episode 15: “Magic”

April 1, 2017By Betsy Cornwell

Story Editor Betsy Cornwell shares Thomas W. Moore’s essay on fresh ways to look at the myth of Narcissus, from the Spring 1976 issue of Parabola, “Magic,” in Parabola Magazine’s free monthly podcast.

Parabola Podcast, Episode 14: “Befriending the Body”

March 1, 2017By Betsy Cornwell

Story Editor Betsy Cornwell looks at two essays from Parabola Magazine’s archives that explore the relationship between body and spirit

Parabola Podcast, Episode 13: “Burning World”

February 1, 2017By Betsy Cornwell

“Nonviolence isn’t just a philosophy of resistance. It is a way of life. Nonviolence is the thoughts we have, the words that we use, the clothes that we wear, the things that we say. It […]

At Death Valley, 2012

Parabola Podcast, Episode 12: “Learning to Die”

January 1, 2017By Betsy Cornwell

Story editor Betsy Cornwell shares excerpts from Brother David Steindl-Rast’s essay “Learning to Die,” which appeared in the Winter 1977 issue of Parabola, “Death.”

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Children at a Puppet Theatre, Paris, 1963

Parabola Podcast, Episode 11: “The Value of Education”

December 1, 2016By Betsy Cornwell

Story Editor Betsy Cornwell reflects on the spiritual value of education in this new episode of Parabola’s free monthly podcast.

Parabola Podcast, Episode 10: “Generosity and Service”

November 1, 2016By Betsy Cornwell

Story editor Betsy Cornwell explores our current issue, Generosity and Service, in Parabola‘s monthly twenty-minute podcast.

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>

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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