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The Seeker - Searching for the Way

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Parabola's Fall 2004 issue: The Seeker The struggle to know who I am, in truth and in spirit, is the spiritual quest. The movement in myself from the mask to the face, from the personality to the person, from the performing actor to the ruler of the inner chamber, is the spiritual journey. --from "First Question" by Ravi Ravindra Cover: Border #8
Detail of painted still on canvas from Michel Rovner's 1998 film.
Michel Rovner Studios, New York
Image courtesy of the artist, Artist's Rights Society, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In this issue:
  • ""The Devil in the Way" by Stephen Batchelor
    - Emptiness as a path
  • "First Question" by Ravi Ravindra
    - What lies behind our masks?
  • "The Gift of the Call" by Christopher Bamford
    - From duality to unity
  • "The Woman in Chains" by Natalie Baan
    - Andromeda, Perseus, and the process of liberation
  • "A Terrible Longing in the Heart"
    - An Interview with Shri Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari by Rama Devagupta
  • POETRY: "Mare Frigoris" by Sandra Alcosser
  • IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE ANCESTORS: "Calling Back the Boas" by Gloria Ushigua
  • "Coming Home: A Woman's Pilgrimage to Mecca" by Claire Alkouatli
    - The earthly and heavenly circumambulation
  • "We Seek Our House: The Meaning of Quetzalcoatl as Venus" by Sheri Ritchlin
    - Where have the "knowers of things" gone?
  • "Harmonizing the Passions" by Geoffrey Dennis
    - A tenth-century Jewish theologian finds a middle way
  • "The Wanderer" by Bishop Seraphim Sigrist
    - The journeys of Saint Brendan and Bodhidharma
  • "The Rope Trick" by Anne Twitty
    - A prose poem
  • ARCS: On the Way
    - Are we knowing participants?
  • "Without Sleep, No Awakening" by Henri Tracol
  • "The Paradox of Place: Thomas Merton's Photography" by Paul M. Pearson
    - Insights and images from a modern seeker
  • "The End of Search"
    - An Interview with Robert A. F. Thurman
  • POINT OF VIEW: "Nothing Left Behind" by Maxine Linnell
    - A prose poem
  • "Go 'I Know Not Where': Tracking the Trackless" by Madronna Holden
    - The impossible quest
Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world
  • "Phaeton" / Greek
  • "The Angel of Losses" / Jewish
  • "The Wise and the Foolish Merchants" / Buddhist
Tangents - Reviews
  • "Making the Darkness Conscious: J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings" by Donald Raiche
    - The trilogy's injunction to forsake power
  • "The Rubin Museum of Art" by Caroline Herrick
    - A new showcase for Himalayan art






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