January–February 2021
- Current Issues In America 2020
- Current Issues In Nursing
- Current Issues With Redistricting
- Current Issues In Higher Education
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The Work from Anywhere Future: Lessons from organizations that have made the transition and flourished
Where People Management Went Wrong: How we came to overengineer our employees
Emerging From the Crısis: How to lead through uncertainty and strengthen your organization for the long haul
The Agile Executive: How to balance efficiency and innovation (even in tough times like these)
Creating a Culture of Experimentation: Good tools aren’t enough. You need a total change in attitude.
When data creates competitive advantage…and when it doesn’t
Cracking the Code on Collaboration: Six new tools
“Do you want to know a secret? Do you promise not to tell?” sang the Beatles in 1963. Nearly all of us would answer “Yes” to both questions, but as this issue of Parabola reveals, most secrets end up being told, for better or for worse.
And so these pages brim with revelations—about little-known Native American lore, about the hidden life of Isaac Newton, about Macbeth and addiction and poet Robert Lax in Hollywood. There are unveilings about the Freemasons, and the Catholic confessional; about animal tracks and trackers, and the mysteries of the Hebrew alphabet.
Rabbi Eliezer Shore indicates in his essay here on the vision of Ezekiel, such a secret can be taught only “to a student who understands it on his own.” To reach that understanding can sometimes demand severe trials, as Cynthia Bourgeault describes in a riveting narrative about her stormy journey into the “imaginal realm.” Ultimately, understanding the deepest secrets seems to depend upon one’s quality of “being”; readers will find their own tested as, with the guidance of commentator Jean-Yves Leloup, they ponder the words of Jesus from the Gospel of Thomas: “These are the words of the Secret…Whoever lives the interpretation of these words will no longer taste death.”
There is lighter fare in this issue, too, including a fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm, an array of prayers from nurse/Zen teacher Ellen Birx, and the three winning poems of this year’s Poetry of the Sacred Contest. There is even a recipe for a Jewish holiday cookie with a hidden center.
May this issue of Parabola serve you well—and if it does, please don’t keep it a secret.
—Jeff Zaleski
table of contents
These Are the Words of the SecretJean-Yves Leloup
The Gospel of Thomas revealed
Prospero, Jonah, and “The Greek”: A Winter’s OdysseyCynthia Bourgeault
A journey into mystery and revelation
The DarkBarbara Wright George
Learning to love winter’s night
The Secret Within the Secret Rabbi Eliezer Shore
Of Ezekiel’s vision and its hidden tradition
Not just a man. A mason.The Editors
The guarded world of the Freemasons
Isaac Newton: MagicianSoraya Field Fiorio
The secret life of the great scientist
Maintaining the FireJ.M. White
A conversation with Native American and Buddhist teacher Dhyani Ywahoo
Current Issues In America 2020
Simple PrayersEllen Birx
A multifaith bounty of devotions
Tracks, Tracking, and the Urge to SeeKeith Badger
What animal tracks tell us about nature and ourselves
A Poet in TinseltownRobert Hirschfield
The Hollywood Journal of Robert Lax
I ConfessThe Editors
Behind the seal of the confessional
A Language with a VisionGilla Nissan
Secrets of the Hebrew alphabet
Facing the Great SecretAnonymous
Behold the Witches of Macbeth — and of our lives
A Drama of the Visible and InvisibleMaurice Nicoll
What you see is not what you get
HamantaschenRabbi Hanoch Hecht
How to bake a cookie with a hidden center
Tertium QuidSeraphim Winslow
Into the realm of triad
The Whole World is Filled with DivinityRabbi Adin Steinsaltz
A memorable teaching
epicycle
Twelve Dancing PrincessesThe Brothers Grimm / Fairy tale
poetry of the sacred winners 2020
Wintered OverLisa Breger
Current Issues In Nursing
A PrayerJed Myers
Sequoiadendron GiganteumMichele Bombardier
Current Issues With Redistricting
tangent
Where Do We Go From Here?Trevor Stewart
A report on the 2020 All and Everything Conference and beyond
Current Issues In Higher Education
book reviews
Golden Hummingbird GardenLevi Marinucci
Reviewed by Molly Rose Strugatz
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