Parabola's Spring 1994 issue:
The Call This dialogue, a call and a response, that takes place between above and below, between inner and outer, between the spiritual and material worlds, is basic to every tradition. No pattern exists for the many ways in which itmay be initiated and received--it may come as a vision or dream, through the strains of certain music, as an inheritance, as a result of prayer or meditation, or in answer to the summons of the
shofar or
muezzin. It may be heard in the rush of water in a deep forest or the cry of a bird--or in the memory of something that has been lost. In each tradition there is a sacred call that rises from the deepest or descends from the highest, a transformative message. --from the editorial Focus
Cover: "The Archangel Israfil" Silhouetted detail from
The Wonders of Creation of al-Qazwini Iraq, second half of fourteenth century. Courtesy of the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
In this issue: - "Invitation to the Soul" by David A. Cooper
- Sounds that awaken us - "The One in the Many" by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Religion, globality, and universality - "Resistance to the Call" by Juilene Osborne-McKnight
- The story of St. Patrick - "Following the Straight Path" by Richard Katz
- Transmission of Fijian healing practices - "Call of the Wild" by Jack London
- Following old memories - "Ear of the Heart" by Norvene Vest
- The Rule of St. Benedict - "There Are No Secrets" by Peter Brook
- Discovering the stage set for The Tempest - "The Awakening of Thought" by Jeanne de Salzmann
- Recognition of another level - "Old Speech" by Ken Hawkinson
- The role of the African griot - "Abraham's Call" by Gray Henry
- The Islamic view of invitation to prayer - "The Call of Service" by Robert Coles
- A portrait of Dorothy Day - "The Reluctant Prophet" by Mordechai Beck
- The story of Jonah - "Winding the Golden String" by Bede Griffiths
- A boyhood experience of the divine - "The Command is to Hear: An Interview with Adin Steinsaltz"
- The call in Judaism
Tangents - Reviews - "Film as Meditation" by Bob Scher
- A review of the film Baraka - "The Call of the Story" by Suzanne Jasper
- Native American Storytelling Festival review
Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world - "Hanuman's Call" / Hindu - retold by D. K. M. Kartha
- "Music of the Sirens" / Greek - retold by Natalie Baan
- "The Carpenter's Wife" / English - retold by Shanti Fader
Poems - "Vocatus atque Non Vocatus" by William Stafford
- "War God's Horse Song II" by Frank Mitchell
