Parabola's Summer 2000 Issue:
Riddle & Mystery If you speak my name, You destroy me. Who am I?
Cover:"Silence" Oil painting by Odilon Redon, 1910-1911 Museum of Modern Art, New York.
In this issue:
- "One and One Make One" by Christian Wertenbaker - The puzzle of looking inward and outward
- "Enigma, Paradox, Parable" by David and Sharon Hoffman - Western traditions of teaching through riddles
- "The Mystery of the Headless Goddess" by Miranda Shaw - Tantric symbol of spiritual rebirth
- "Riddles in the Dark" by J. R. R. Tolkien - A deadly contest beneath the mountains
- "Squaring the Circle" by Eric LaVigne - Toward a solution of the ancient problem
- "Angels and Fools" by Cecil Collins - A gallery of paintings and meditations
- "The Great Magician" by Renv© Daumal - A cryptic story from the author of Mount Analogue
- "Science, Observation, and Mystery" by Luke Keller - When spirit meets the scientific method
- "Word Alchemy" by Paul Sorrell - The use of riddles in Anglo-Saxon culture
- "A Prayer to My Gritty God" by BK Loren - Invoking the spirit of the Fool
- "Singing the World" - An Interview with Heather Valencia
- "Empty-handed I Go" by D. T. Suzuki - Comments on the Zen koan
- "Hamlet's Mission" - An Interview with Andrei Serban
Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world
- "The Concealed Deer" / Chinese
- "A Palace of Bird Beaks" / Jewish - retold by Barbara Rush and Howard Schwartz
- "Nothingness" / Hindu - retold by Rama Devagupta
- "Inktomi and the Best Thing" / Sioux - retold by Aaron Link
- "Two Cows" / Persian
- "The Mule and the Villagers" / Korean