Parabola's Fall 1997 issue:
Conscience and Consciousness Conscience calls me to be myself. To be myself begins with self-knowledge. --Jean Vaysse
Cover: Egyptian funerary casket depicting the "weighing of the heart" in the Hall of Judgment Painted wood, Twenty-first Dynasty, c. 1085-950 B.C.E. Louvre, Paris. Giraudon/Art Resource, NY.
In this issue:
- "The Saint with the Seven Tombs" by Tim Winter - On the Sufi way of understanding
- "Ecology of Conscience" by Michael Tobias - Islands of nonviolence
- "The Nature of Consciousness: An Interview with Oliver Sacks"
- "On Being Oneself" by Sri Anirvan - Practicing observation
- "The Stereopticon" by Frederick Franck - A miraculous device for seeing
- "Sarach's Harp" by Marty Cohen - Music of divinity
- "Blessed Uneasiness" by Roger Lipsey - Dag Hammarskjv?ld on matters of conscience
- "To Clear the Mind" - The Yoga Vasistha's counsel
- "Treasure Within" by Irma Zaleski - Conscience as a seed of knowledge
- "The Ayenbite of Inwit" by Gary Eberle - A forgotten manual of self-examination
- "Remembering the Self" by P. D. Ouspensky - The work of an active attentiveness
- Arcs: "Weighing the Heart"
Tangents - Reviews
- "Tibet in the Shadow of Our Imagination" by Ursula Bernis - Tibet and the world's conscience
Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world
- "Presence" / Sufi - from Essential Sufism
- "In the Eyes of the Beholder" / Chinese - retold by Miriam Faugno
- "I and Not-I" / Jewish - from Reviewing the Covenant
- "The Last Egg" / European - retold by Edith Gilmore