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An excellent renewed magazine
I love this magazine. It is quarterly and at first glance it seems that it would take much less time to read and digest it. Wrong. <
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>Myth and tradition. Expanded on by some of the leading thinkers and philosophers. The new editions have been updated. Some of the original staff have returned and the layout is different. Simpler, more elegant, and slightly more monochromatic. It's beautiful. Some of the regular features have been updated and expanded. New features have been added. <
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>One that was especially moving was the addition of a Native American column. What was extraordinary about it was the specification that it would be for Native Americans to express themselves without being analyzed in any way. <
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>The editors and contributors have done a wonderful job of updating and in some ways returning the magazine to it's original path. <
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>They also have a wonderful companion web site.

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Explore Myth and Meaning With Parabola Magazine
Parabola is a quarterly journal that's one of the pioneering publications on the subject of myth and tradition. Every issue explores one of the facets of human existence from the point of view of as many of the world's religious and spiritual traditions as possible, through the prism of story and symbol, myth, ritual, and sacred teachings. <
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>Why are we here? and What's the meaning of life? are two of the oldest questions posed by humanity, and Parabola covers the spectrum of the mystical, psychological, anthropological while exploring these age-old questions. <
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>Parabola covers a specific topic theme every issue. For example, one issue's theme was Chaos and Order and featured articles like: <
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>*A Celtic Mandala (which looks at an archetype of order) <
>*A Hymn by Thomas Moore (honoring the positive attributes of disorder) <
>*Monsters, Children of Chaos (about what lurks in the dark deep). <
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>Past journal themes that have been explored include: <
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>*Riddle and Mystery: Questions With Answers, Questions Without Answers <
>*Dying: Ending or the Beginning of Transformation? <
>*Play and Work: Struggle and Relaxion in the Search for Meaning <
>*The Knight and The Hermit: Heroes of Action and Reflection <
>*Prison: Inner and Outer Confinement. <
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>The issue on Friendship features pieces such as: <
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>*A gathering of Sufi and Medieval Welsh poems with commentary from Coleman Barks <
>*Gehlek Rimpoche describing the qualities of the sangha <
>*Hazrat Inayat Khan speaks on the spirits of agitation and of brotherhood <
>*Kate Chadbourne follows a Welsh prince into the Underworld and finds an unexpected friendship <
>*A tribute to the late Lakota elder and activist Tony Black Feather <
>*Retellings of stories from the Hindu, Jewish, and Native American traditions <
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>If you enjoy the likes of Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, and Clarissa Pinkola Estes--as well as myth, symbols, meaning, and culture--you'll find Parabola Magazine a feast for mind and spirit.

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great stuff
Anyone willing to enlarge their understanding of themselves and their place on a planet that urgently requires us all to listen to and appreciate each other, will find at least one, if not many offerings in any issue of this thought provoking and consistently well rounded publication that will illuminate a mystery, spark a quest, satisfy a deeply felt hunger for insight and meaning, or re-sanctify the common day. True, some might ask if we really need the unnervingly nebulous and impractical "nonsense" of myth and lore, of mystery, imagination, art and symbol. As Joseph Campbell is said to have remarked, any hound can live an apparently satisfactory life without the slightest need or desire for all this, and that is perfectly fine, but it is, after all, a hound's life.