Parabola's Fall 2000 Issue: The Teacher

"The encounter with teachers, inner and outer, is a process of refinement, whereby these externalities are purged away and the gold of consciousness, pure, undivided, and clear, is able to shine forth from the innermost part of one's nature."

--Richard Smoley, "The Source of Wisdom"

"The Source of Wisdom" by Richard Smoley - Where to search for authority

"Spiritual Masters" - An Interview with William Segal

"Bending and Turning" by Robert Dixon-Kolar - The lessons of Shaker craft

"The Spiritual Guide" by Jalalu'l-Din Rumi - "The refuge in the shadow of the sage"

"A Bow for One's Students" by Doug Thorpe - Supplication and receptivity

"Your Cell Will Teach You Everything" by Father Dunstan Morrissey - Obedience as a venture into the unknown

"An Essential Commitment" by J. L. Walker - Milarepa and his student

"No Other Teachings" by Hermann Hesse - From a new translation of Siddhartha

"Forerunner of Truth" by Irma Zaleski - Basic instruction in freedom

"Sing, Muse" by Martha T. Heyneman - Inspiration, poetry, and realization

"Examples" by Frederick Franck - Ones who went before

"The Guru Function" by Georg Feuerstein - Transmission in the Yoga tradition

"A Voiceless Blowing Sound" - An Interview with Vi Hilbert

"A Guide to Internal Direction" by Rama P. Coomaraswamy - Correctives against self-delusion

"The Sufi Master" by Shams al-'Urafâ' - On the wish to be initiated

"Educating the Educator" by J. Krishnamurti - Basic tools for existing

"The Rabbi, the Zaddik, and the Zen Master" by Ronald Pies - How different traditions point at reality

"Questioning Authority" by Mariana Caplan - Discerning the false teachers

Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world
 

"The Secret Art" / Taoist - retold by Kum-Hoon Ng
"The Dream of the Rabbi's Daughter" / Jewish - retold by Howard Schwartz
"Drinking the Cows' Milk" / Hindu - from the Mahabharata