Parabola: The Search for Meaning (Spring 2017)
Parabola, Volume 42, Number 1 (Spring 2017). This issue takes up the search for meaning — prayer, meditation, and transformation, and the many ways people come to live with purpose. It gathers essays and conversations from spiritual teachers and writers across traditions. The full issue is available to read below as a free download.
Features
To Take Life as Work — Maurice Nicoll. On changing the meaning of one's life. (p. 8)
The Way of the Heart — Cynthia Bourgeault. On a path that reaches beyond the thinking mind. (p. 10)
In the Midst of Winter, an Invincible Summer — Tracy Cochran. Seeing the light at the darkest moment. (p. 22)
How to Reach Where You Already Are — Alan Watts. Previously unpublished writing from the popular spiritual pioneer. (p. 30)
The Urge to Create — Carol Berry. How a struggling pastor became Vincent van Gogh. (p. 38)
The Dao of Meaning — Dian Duchin Reed. On living rightly and well. (p. 42)
The Turn of the Dial — Susan Ishmael. On handling serpents and finding the Lord. (p. 48)
The Truth of Impermanence — Samuel Bercholz. What the author found after a journey through Hell. (p. 56)
Viktor Frankl and the Search for Meaning — Fran Grace. A conversation with Frankl's grandson and a champion of the Frankl family legacy. (p. 60)
Laurie — Richard Whittaker. A portrait of a man impossible to classify. (p. 66)
The Dawn's Heart Star and the Speed of Light — Neil Rusch. In the African desert, an Aboriginal revelation. (p. 74)
Life Review and the Search for Meaning — Henry Fersko-Weiss. Finding meaning at the end of life. (p. 82)
Impartial Kindness — Tcheslaw Tchekhovitch. With G.I. Gurdjieff in postwar Paris. (p. 90)
Towards a Christian Tantra — James Hughes Reho. In a Turkish cave, a way to God. (p. 94)
The I Ching and Synchronicity — Annette Lowe. A Jungian exploration of chance and mystery. (p. 102)
You Will Find It Waiting for You — Oscar Wilde. After a fall from the heights, a letter from the depths. (p. 112)
Book Reviews
In the Beginning Was Love: Contemplative Words of Robert Lax by Robert Lax, edited by S.T. Georgiou — reviewed by Richard Whittaker. (p. 114)
Endpoint (p. 128)
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