Parabola's Winter 1992 issue: Power and Energy If power gave us life, and our ongoing existence is dependent on a constant supply of renewed energy, how does such a generation and regeneration take place? In this issue, we question the many manifestations of energy as they appear in science, theology, and in our mortal lives as residents of this planet. How do we recognize both the constructive and destructive power around us; how do we respond? --from the editorial Focus Cover: Rising Celestial Dragon Detail of mandarin robe, Ch'ing dynasty Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, Durham In this issue:

• "Living with Sacred Power" by Alan L. Miller
  - How we fear and long for God
• "Quest for the Summit" by Ron Matous
  - The energy of the mountain climber
• "Food for Transformation" by P. D. Ouspensky
  - G. I. Gurdjieff's description of the inner sources for spiritual growth
• "The Sleeping Dragon and the Waters" by Stuart Smithers
  - Chaos in Vedic mythology
• "The Clown" by Norman Manea
  - The extreme of despotic power
• "Divine Energy" by Father Symeon Burholt
  - A Christian view of the sacred presence
• ARCS: "Light of Heaven and Earth"
• "The Planetary Powers" by Thomas Moore
  - Marsilio Ficino's views of astrological forces
• "The Moment of Dilemma" by Elaine Jahner
  - The Lakota story of White Plume Boy
• "Discovering the Silence" by Thomas Merton
  - The giant Buddha statues at Polonnaruwa
• "The Cosmic Bootstrap" by Paul Davies
  - How did the primeval energy come to exist?
• "The Meaning of the Thunderbolt" by Stephen R. Wilk
  - Lightning in physics and mythology
• "Shakti" by Margaret Case
  - Hinduism's creative principle
• "vÄshe" by Robert Farris Thompson
  - Brightness of spirit in the Yoruba tradition

Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world

• "Thor's Visit" / Norse - retold by Paul Jordan-Smith
• "The Master and His Pupil" / English - from English Fairy Tales
• "Fasting of the Heart" / Chinese - by Chuang Tzu
• "The Eye of Re" / Egyptian - retold by Natalie Baan