Parabola's Spring 1998 issue: Millennium The threshold of the millennium is a reminder that we shape our own destiny and that how--or even whether--the next seven generations will live depends on us. The real question is: Will we reach deep enough into ourselves to meet this challenge with open eyes, a clear mind, and a compassionate heart? --from "The Millennium Effect" Cover: Photograph of the galaxies Antennae in the constellation Corvus, via the Hubble telescope Courtesy of NASA photo unit, Washington, D.C. In this issue:

• "Crossing the River" by Linda Hogan - Human time and earth time
• "Worlds Living and Dying" by Ravi Ravindra - Consciousness and cyclical existence
• "Point of Return" - An interview with Ursula K. Le Guin
• "The Age of Tikkun" by Eliezer Shore - Restoring the world's soul
• "On Memory and Numbers" by Thomas Moore - To keep count is to remember
• "Building the Buddha-Field" by J. L. Walker - The mandala as beginning and ending
• "Living on the Brink of Apocalypse" by Richard Erdoes - Scenes from the last millennium
• "Message to the Younger Brother" spoken by Ramon Gil Barros - Wisdom teachings of the Kaggaba-Wiwa
• "Signs of the Times" by Martin Lings - What "the end of the world" really means
• "Sacred Threshold" by S. Paul Burholt - History, eternity, and the Incarnation
• "The New Jerusalem" - from Revelation
• "The Millennium Effect" by Georg Feuerstein - An opportunity for transformation
• "A Work of Lamentation" by Joshua Leavitt - Purging negative emotions

Tangents - Reviews

• "Veils and Visions" by Rob Baker - The Apocalypse according to Wim Wenders

Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world

• "The Land Where Time Stood Still" / Romanian - from World Tales
• "Vv?luspv°" / Norse - from The Masks of Odin
• "Before the Gates of Rome" / Jewish - from the Talmud
• "Remaking the World" / Brule Sioux - from American Myths and Legends