Parabola's Spring 1982 issue:
Sleep Sleep replenishes the energy necessary for ordinary life--we must sleep well in order to wake well--but unless some of the energy is contained, and reserved for another current of life, we might always live in sleep and never awaken. We are called to awaken, writes Mircea Eliade. He quotes from the Ginza, "Let him who hears wake from heavy sleep." And from a Mandaean text, "Slumber not nor sleep, and forget not that which thy Lord hath charged thee." --from the editorial Focus
Cover: Reclining Buddha, Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka Photograph by Thomas Merton
In this issue:
- "'Why Sleepest Thou, O Lord?" by Henri Tracol
- States of being and stages of awakening
- "Mythologies of Sleep and Forgetting" by Mircea Eliade
- The mortal "sleep" of the fallen soul
- "Life's a Dream"
- An excerpt from Kathleen Raine's translation of Calderon's play
- "Sleep and the Inner Landscape"
- An interview with Dr. Yeshi Dhonden by William and Marielle Segal
- Arcs
- A portfolio of sleep quotations
- "Krishna and King Mucukunda: The Sleeper Awakened" by Heinrich Zimmer
- King Mucukunda's cosmic sleep, newly translated into English
- "Lines to a Granny" by A. K. Ramanujan
- A poem
- "The Study of the Torah as Awakening" by Jonathan Omer-Man
- Levels of reality and spiritual growth
- "Time out of Time" by Paul Jordan-Smith
- Time in myth and fairy tale
- "The Life of Sleeping Men" by P. D. Ouspensky
- Gurdjieff's view
- "On Waking Up: An interview with Joseph Campbell" by Douglas Auchincloss
- "The Seventh Day" by P. L. Travers
- On the seventh day God rested
Tangents - Reviews
- "The Unblinking Eye: Passages to India, and Beyond" by Rob Baker
- The camera never sleeps
- "Traveling Temple Treasures" by Frederick Franck
- Sacred statues from Buddhist Japan
- "Cheyenne Culture Ledgers" by Joseph Epes Brown
- A review with pictures of Peter Powell's People of the Sacred Mountain
Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world
- "Launcelot at the Grail Temple" / English
- "The Keys of the Temple" / Jewish
- "Humming Home Your Shadow" / Hoopa (Native American) retold by Sister Maria Jose Hobday
- "The One You Don't See Coming" / African
- "The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus" / Christian retold by Whitley Strieber
- "The Two Rivers" / Russian
- "The Concealed Deer" / Chinese
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