Heaven and Hell
VOLUME 38 NUMBER 2 SUMMER 2013 8 THE NIGHT I DIED Tracy Cochran
A brush with death leads to a glimpse of Light
16 EMANATIONS OF DIVINITY Lee van Laer
The wonders of Hieronymous Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights
20 HEARING THE CRIES OF THE WORLD Mark Nepo
The many blessings of opening to suffering
28 SOMETHING UNDERSTOOD Doug Thorpe
Heaven and Hell with Dante and the evangelicals
34 ESCAPE FROM HELL Renée Thorne
Growing up in fire and brimstone
44 WHAT MAKES A LIFE SIGNIFICANT William James
A utopian community—so what’s the problem?
54 PARABOLA: 150 ISSUES
A celebration of 150 issues of Parabola, through our covers
62 THE MEANING OF TRADITION
From our first issue, a conversation with Huston Smith
70 A LEAF FROM HEAVEN Hans Christian Andersen
A tale of Heaven come to earth
78 TRANSIT Diane Wolkstein
From Heaven to Hell and back again
82 REMEMBERING CONSUELO Paul Jordan-Smith
A tribute to Diane Wolkstein

epicycle 38 my heaven is where they are Vyasa | Hindu
Kenneth E. Lawrence, from a translation by Sangeeta Nandan
ARCS 48 is there really a heaven and hell?
POETRY
Three poems by Malcolm Guite on the Paradiso from the sequence “On Reading the Commedia” 74 Look up
?76 circle dance 77 the rose
tangents 84 ENDING THE BEELZEBUB WARS: BEYOND “US AND THEM” Stephen A. Grant
A plea for harmony within the Fourth Way 94 AWAKENING TO GIFTISM, IN PUNE Nipun Mehta
Transformation, one simple act at a time
106 ROLLING IN THE DEEP Laura Majorie Miller
Young filmmaker Lisa Stock tackles Dante’s Inferno
BOOK REVIEWs
112 HAMMARSKJöLD: A LIFE
Roger Lipsey | reviewed by James George
120 THE SPIRITUAL TEACHINGS OF THE PROPHET
Tayeb Chouiref, Fatima Casewit (ed.), Edin Q. Lohja (tr.) | reviewed by Peter Samsel
128 ENDPOINT