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A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
Story Editor Betsy Cornwell shares excerpts from our Fall 2021 issue of Parabola Magazine, Fire. Read the full issue by becoming a Parabola subscriber at www.parabola.org
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
Story editor Betsy Cornwell and Parabola intern Surnai Molloy share excerpts from the Summer 2021 issue of Parabola Magazine, "Young & Old."
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
Story editor Betsy Cornwell shares excerpts from the Spring 2021 issue of Parabola, WELLNESS, including an exploration of the world's healing water goddesses and a practical guide to mindfulness meditation.
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran on being with not knowing. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran on embracing the dark. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran on finding our true home. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran on our need to be a hero for just one moment. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran on how to be at oneness today. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran on how to break the spell. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran on life in the Bardo. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran on the crossroads where prayer and meditation meet. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran leads a meditation on the California wildfires and the redwoods still standing. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
Parabola's editorial direction Tracy Cochran on finding truth anywhere -- even on a wine trip. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
Parabola's editorial director Tracy Cochran on finding help in unexpected places. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
Story editor Betsy Cornwell shares excerpts from the current issue of Parabola, BALANCE, including Sufi master Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee's essay on finding balance in an unstable world, "The Natural Order of Things." Find the full issue in our online store at https://store.parabola.org/storefront.aspx .
A guided meditation with Parabola's editorial director, Tracy Cochran, on how to align with love in difficult times. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation with Parabola's Editorial Director, Tracy Cochran, on how to see ourselves in a new light. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: https://parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation on finding peace in stormy times. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: https://parabola.org/support-parabola/
Story Editor Betsy Cornwell shares excerpts from Parabola's Spring 1988 issue, "The Creative Response," including P.L. Travers' stunningly moving essay "The Interviewer." Find the full issue at store.parabola.org.
A guided meditation on the adventure of staying in place. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: https://parabola.org/support-parabola/
A meditation with Tracy Cochran on coming home to our truest, most beautiful life. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: https://parabola.org/support-parabola/
A meditation with Tracy Cochran on the gift of a good accident. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: https://parabola.org/support-parabola/
A meditation with Tracy Cochran on breaking free, one small moment at a time. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: https://parabola.org/support-parabola/
A talk on being grounded even in the midst of a storm. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: https://parabola.org/support-parabola/
A talk on being more than we think we are. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: https://parabola.org/support-parabola/
A guided meditation on being gentle with yourself when things are hard with Parabola's editorial director, Tracy Cochran. To support Parabola and this meditation series, please consider donating: https://parabola.org/support-parabola/
Story editor Betsy Cornwell shares excerpts from the new Summer 2020 issue of Parabola, PRESENCE, including book excerpts from James George and Alan Watts on awareness and awakening in these especially challenging times.
Story editor Betsy Cornwell shares excerpts from Parabola Magazine's "The Search for Meaning" issue, which is available as a free PDF download for anyone who would like one during the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope you find comfort in its pages.
"For it seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms."
- Simone Weil
Story editor Betsy Cornwell shares excerpts from the Summer 2008 issue of Parabola, GOD, including Simone Weil's remarkable 1942 letter to Father J.M. Perrin, "God in his Mercy."
Story Editor Betsy Cornwell shares excerpts and web exclusives from the new issue of Parabola, "Goddess," including Christine Irving's "Inanna: Relevance and Return." Find the full issue and become a subscriber at parabola.org.
Music: Dreaming, Op. 15 No. 3, composed by Amy Beach.
Story Editor Betsy Cornwell shares excerpts from the Winter 1978 issue of Parabola, "Androgyny," including an exploration of female self-sufficiency in the Gnostic Gospels and PL Travers' beautiful rumination on the zodiac in "Letter to a Learned Astrologer."
Music: "Dreaming: Op 15 No 3" composed by Amy Beach.
Story Editor Betsy Cornwell shares excerpts from the current issue of Parabola, "Mercy and Forgiveness," including Alexandra Haven's incisive essay on the political context of museum collections "Who Decides History's Future?" and a retelling of the Skandinavian folktate "The Woman Without a Shadow."
Story Editor Betsy Cornwell shares excerpts from the current issue of Parabola, The Wild, including an essay on environmentalism and society in the Amazon and two myths about wilderness, The Seven Swans and Romulus and Remus
Story Editor Betsy Cornwell shares excerpts from Parabola Magazien's forty-year archive on the theme of remembering.
Story editor Betsy Cornwell shares essays from Parabola's extensive archives on the theme of "Renewal" in this episode of Parabola Magazine's free podcast.
Story Editor Betsy Cornwell shares Jm White's moving essay "The Esoteric Shakespeare" and Scottish and Chinese fairy tales, as well as wise advice from Rainer Maria Rilke, in this episode of Parabola Magazine's free monthly podcast.
Story editor Betsy Cornwell shares excerpts from Parabola's archives on the theme of "vision," including senior editor Tracy Cochran's essay "Visions of Joni," in this episode of Parabola's free monthly podcast.
Story editor Betsy Cornwell shares excerpts from Parabola's new issue, "Hope," in this episode of our magazine's free monthly podcast.
Story Editor Betsy Cornwell shares Josh Boettiger's essay on King David and Leonard Cohen, "The Poet and the Shepherd," and Susan McCaslin's meditation on spiritual journeys, "Guidance," in this episode of Parabola Magazine's free monthly podcast. Subscribe at parabola.org.
Story editor Betsy Cornwell shares Ursula K. Legion's "A Parabola Bestiary: Bear" and Eleanor O'Hanlon's "Remarkable Beings" in this episode of Parabola Magazine's free monthly podcast.
Story Editor Betsy Cornwell shares Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush's "Going Home" and Emily Dickinson's poem "Our Journey Had Advanced" in this episode of Parabola Magazine's free monthly podcast.
Story editor Betsy Cornwell shares editorial director Tracy Cochran's "Fusterlandia" and Elizabeth Napp's "An Education in Peace," as well as some wise words on leadership from Octavia Butler, in this episode of Parabola Magazine's free monthly podcast.
Story editor Betsy Cornwell shares Margaret Delaney's "The Anonymous Ones" and "Gastronomy in Ancient China" by Donald Haper in the latest episode of Parabola Magazine's free monthly podcast.
Story editor Betsy Cornwell shares excerpts from the new issue of Parabola Magazine, "The Miraculous," including three new poems by beloved author Jane Yolen.
"For if my life has happened to me, there have been moments—may they be counted—when I have happened to it. Let me not, therefore, be a Sabine Woman, part of your plunder, borne off in protest. I would encounter darkness as a bride and eat the pomegranate!"
Story editor Betsy Cornwell shares PL Travers' stunning essay "Walking the Maze" and William Segal's wise poem "The Middle Ground" in this episode of Parabola Magazine's free podcast.
Parabola's free monthly podcast features essays by Alexandra Haven and David Ulrich, touching on the wonders of ancient Egypt and the joys of mindful photography, read by story editor Betsy Cornwell.
Story editor Betsy Cornwell looks at the inaugural issue of Parabola, "The Hero," from 1976.
Story Editor Betsy Cornwell shares Thomas W. Moore's essay on fresh was to look at the myth of Narcissus, from the Spring 1976 issue of Parabola, "Magic," in Parabola Magazine's free monthly podcast.
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Story Editor Betsy Cornwell looks at two essays from Parabola Magazine’s archives that explore the relationship between body and spirit: Patty de Llosa’s “Befriending the Body” and Joyce Kornblatt’s “Already Broken.” Our monthly twenty-minute podcast is available to stream or download for free through SoundCloud and iTunes.
Story editor Betsy Cornwell looks at Nipun Mehta's essay "If You Want To Be A Rebel, Be Kind" from the spring 2012 issue of Parabola Magazine, Burning World.
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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 Magazine. Learn more and read the full essay for free at Parabola.org. Parabola's extensive forty-year archives are available on our website and are free to subscribers.
Story Editor Betsy Cornwell looks at the spiritual value of education in the new episode of Parabola's free monthly podcast. Learn more about our magazine or become a subscriber at Parabola.org.
Music: Dreaming (1892), composed by Amy Beach.