Coming to Our Senses: Spring 2006 Issue.
"This issue of Parabola undermines the pervasive if half-conscious notion that the road to the spirit leads away from the body. The long history of warnings found in all religious traditions about the senses as deceivers and tempters has no doubt played a role in forming this attitude, but the warnings are not the whole story. Traditions also celebrate the body as the place where 'above' and 'below' meet, and acknowledge the senses as messengers and vehicles of presence. Experience shows that only when we are fully grounded and embodied, with the senses awakened, are we released from the dead zone of mental accociation and daydream. Through the gift of the senses we are able to take in impressions, enter teh real world, and relate to others as real." --from the Focus by editor-in-chief Lorraine Kisly
In this issue: "The Invisibles" by David Abram
Enigmatic dimensions of the everyday
"How I Pray is Breathe": Thomas Merton in the Hermitage Years by Roger Lipsey
- Merton's "rehabilitation of the sensible"
"Common Sense"
- An interview with Peter Kingsley
"A Walk with Krishnamurti: From his Journal" by Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Attention without wish, without search, without complaint
"Recovering Sight" by Carl Lehmann-Haupt
- Freeing the gaze from "mere looking"
"Embracing the Irrational"
- An interview with Marion Woodman
"Smell" by Christopher Bamford
- Scent as medium between heaven and earth
"Embodying Wisdom" by Irini Rockwell
- Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's approach to the five wisdom energies, accompanied by his teaching on the senses and emotions
"Now I am Sitting Here" by G. I. Gurdjieff
- Experiencing sensation and feeling
and much more!
