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A Beautiful Mind: A Conversation with Gina Sharpe
I arrived at meditation teacher Gina Sharpe’s house prepared to talk about what it means to live a beautiful life and more: I wanted to find a good story. The bare facts of Sharpe’s life were...
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Jacob Needleman
Photograph of Jacob Needleman by David Ulrich Jacob Needleman’s voice has been prominent in the conversation about man’s inner possibilities for some forty years. Turning away from a career in medicine...
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An Interfaith Crucible
A Conversation with Mirabai Starr Mirabai Starr is an adjunct professor of philosophy and world religions at the University of New Mexico-Taos. She is the author of God of Love: A Guide to the Heart of...
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To Let the Light In
A Conversation with James George James George is a retired Canadian diplomat who served with distinction as High Commissioner to India, and Ambassador to Nepal and Iran. Chögyam Trungpa called him “a...
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All Life is Sacred: A Conversation with John Malloy
John Malloy’s father was in Army Intelligence and assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Shanghai when Malloy was an infant. When Chiang Kai-shek fled China three years later, in 1949, Malloy’s family was the...
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Conscience
In the autumn of 1971, John G. Bennett inaugurated the International Academy for Continuous Education at Sherborne House, Gloucestershire, England. From that time until his death three and one-half...
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Where Will All the Stories Go? A Conversation Between Laurens van der Post...
The following conversation–or as P.L. Travers calls it, a “coming together”–took place between two people who must certainly be well known to PARABOLA readers: African-born Laurens van der Post and...
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The Demons Appear: A Conversation with Isaac Bashevis Singer
Photograph by Abraham Menashe Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991) was a Polish-born Jewish-American author awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978. He wrote and published only in Yiddish. Among...
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Unity of Spirit
A conversation with intuitive and healer Laura Day Ivisited Laura Day in her apartment in Tribeca in lower Manhattan to talk about intuition. Since her early twenties, Day has been internationally...
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The Silent Guide, an Excerpt from an Interview with Father Bede Griffiths
Father Bede Griffiths In 1986, Parabola conducted an interview with Father Bede Griffiths entitled “The Silent Guide” in our Spring issue: “The Witness.” On the subject of what a witness means in the...
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Part of an Ancient Story: A Conversation with Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee photographed by Richard Whittaker One August day recently in northern California, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee sat down with Parabola to speak about free will and destiny. The...
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Longing for Wholeness: An Interview with Satish Kumar
Satish Kumar Satish Kumar: When you accept the state of being a stranger, you are no longer a stranger. I have been an exile when everything around me seemed strange and everybody was a stranger. Once...
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To Go Beyond Thought, an Interview with Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong © Timothy Allen One bright spring day, Parabola met with Karen Armstrong in her suite at the Parker Meridian hotel in Manhattan. The petite, friendly 62-year-old British ex-nun,...
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The Great Unknown Is Me, Myself: A Conversation with Jacob Needleman
Photograph of Jacob Needleman by David Ulrich Jacob Needleman’s voice has been prominent in the conversation about man’s inner possibilities for some forty years. Turning away from a career in medicine...
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To Live With Gratitude, an Interview with Robert Kennedy, S.J., Roshi
“We shall not cease from exploration,” wrote the Catholic poet T.S. Eliot. “And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” Father Robert...
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Engines of Our Nature, a Conversation with Pauline de Dampierre
The weighing of souls, detail from a Last Judgment tympanum at Autun Cathedral (Burgundy, France), c. 1130. “ … If a person were to stop all his outer and inner movements at a given moment in order to...
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The Yoga Master at Ninety, an Interview with B.K.S. Iyengar
EKA PADA VIPARITA DANDASANA (ONE LEG REVERSED STAFF POSE) Born in India in 1918, B.K.S. Iyengar has been teaching yoga since the age of seventeen. An innovative and exacting teacher for more than sixty...
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We Are All Witnesses: An Interview with Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel in 1985. Neal Boenzi / The New York Times Elie Wiesel died Saturday, July 2, 2016 at his home in Manhattan. The Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner was 87. In May of 1985, we...
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Common Sense, an Excerpt from an Interview with Peter Kingsley
Edward Steichen, Blue Sky, 1923 “Everything in existence is crying out for a particular quality of consciousness that only humans can give. This doesn’t mean we are superior to nature, only that...
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The Privilege of Living: A Conversation with Viral Mehta, by Pavithra Mehta
Viral Mehta In mid-August 2015, Viral Mehta, a co-founder of ServiceSpace.org, was diagnosed with an acute form of bone marrow suppression. In the passages below, his wife, Pavithra. “Pavi” Mehta,...
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