Parabola's Fall 1984 issue: Pilgrimage Pilgrimage reinterprets the word "experience" for us, a word that has grown pale and weak in our usage, and restores to it its strong meaning. In its weak form, experience means simply the continuum of moments scarcely distinct from one another--the run of day-to-day life. In its strong form, it means something else. It means the passage into ourselves of places and beings previously unfamiliar and an accompanying enlargement of ourselves. With these increments to our being, we are made new, made more thoroughly kin to the earth, its elements, and its peoples. Pilgrimage experience is radical experience--exposure to trial and peril, the making of perilous passages from a world grown too comfortable and too confining into a world whose vastness we had only dimly surmised. Pilgrimage experience deports us from home; it exports us abroad into a hitherto unimaginable reality. --from "Pilgrims and Pioneers" by Richard R. Niebuhr Cover: Rock garden at Konchiin, Kyoto Photograph by Haruzo Ohashi In this issue:

• "Pilgrims and Pioneers" by Richard R. Niebuhr
  - Our bodies as vehicles of passage
• "From the Notebooks of Paul Brunton"
  - Recently published reflections on the nature of the search
• "The Hajj" by Gai Eaton
  - The two journeys to Mecca
• "Guruji" by Padma Perera
  - A child's apprenticeship in Manipuri dance
• "A New Dwelling"
  - An interview with Tara Tulku, Rinpoche
• "Intimate Journeys" by Lizelle Reymond
  - Impressions of Hindu pilgrimages
• "The Road to the Center" by Arthur Amiotte
  - Preparations for the Sun Dance
• Arcs: "Becoming Passers-by"
• "The Way Back" by P.L. Travers
  - Pondering the whence and why and whither
• "Living in the Distance" by Thomas Buckley
  - Stalking the taotie

Tangents - Reviews

• "Red-Thread Zen" by Frederick Franck
  - Ikkyu and his legacy

Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world

• "The Shrine" / Tibetan retold by Anne Twitty
• "The Shrine" / Turkish retold by Anne Twitty
• "Flying the Children to Wirikuta" / Huichol
• "Journey's End" / Chinese retold by Paul Jordan-Smith
• "The Last Pilgrimage" / Hindu retold by D.M. Dooling