Parabola's Summer 1982 issue: Dreams and Seeing The dream world is the greatest of all mysteries, the very home of mystery: that shadow land between where we are and where something in us came from, east of the sun, west of the moon, out of which come voices of poetry and myth, voices with messages.... Who sends these messages--angel, demon, or clown? What are the sources of our sleeping and waking dreams? Why are their messages so different, some so confused and some so clear? It has been the business of the seeker, of the would-be hero and the warrior, from the very beginnings of myth and fairy tale, not to be fooled. But the difficulty is that truth and falsehood, delusion and revelation, are always mixed for us--like our sleep and waking. --from the editorial Focus Cover: "Adam and Eve Sleeping" by William Blake From Paradise Lost, c. 1808 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston In this issue:

• "The Gate of Heaven" by Paul Jordan-Smith
  - The price of prophecy
• "Dreampoems" by Ursula K. Le Guin
  - Fantasia of the unconscious
• "Our Other Selves: The Lakota Dream Experience" by Arthur Amiotte
  - The origin of the four souls
• Spectrum: "The Meanings of Dreams"
• "Where Will All the Stories Go?"
  - A conversation between Laurens van der Post and P. L. Travers
• "Acting Out Daydreams" by Richard Lewis
  - Finding the way to the children's other world
• "Hard and Soft Reality" by Wendy Donigher O'Flaherty
  - The shared dream in Hindu mythology
• "The Vision of the Rose" by Elemire Zola
  - Archetypes and the metaphysical
• Arcs: "Insight and Magic Lanterns"
• "Speak, Lord" by P. L. Travers
  - A story
• "Recurring Landscapes" by Marguerite Yourcenar
  - The varieties of oneiric experience

Tangents - Reviews

• "Hearing the Sound of Color" by Rob Baker
  - A controversial collaboration by Kandinsky and de Hartmann
• "A Model Master Plan" by Christopher Bamford
  - A review of The Plan of St. Gall

Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world

• "Scipio's Dream" / Roman
• "The Night Journey" / Islamic
• "The Happy Spirit" / Australian retold by Louis A. Allen
• "Sweet Medicine's Prophecy" / Cheyenne (Native American)
• "The Two-Headed Snake" / Seneca (Native American) retold by Joseph Bruchac
• "The Cave" / Greek