I am especially honored to have five articles published in the well-respected Parabola magazine, established in 1976. Parabola ceased publication in April 2025. – John Roger Barrie
-1. “The Deepest Silence” in Volume 33, No. 1.
“To embrace silence means splicing off a certain arena of the familiar and venturing into heretofore uncharted territories.”
-2. “Inner Justice” in Volume 33, No. 4.
“Our duty, therefore, is to attain a state of inner equanimity that is immune to inner and outer change. In such a state the sense of having achieved balance—and justice—is already attained; the gestalt is always complete.”
-3. “Inner and Outer Transformation” in Volume 48, No. 1.
“Peel back the final sheath of the invisible coating that separates us from the ultimate reality. Down the Rabbit Hole we plunge, and there is no turning back.”
-4. “Which Version of Reality?” in Volume 49, No. 2.
“Our purpose is to reconnect with our Source by disconnecting from our self. This requires undertaking practices that aid us in displacing the primacy of our egocentric orientation and help us to shed the husk of our outer persona.”
-5. “The Future Is an Illusion” in Volume 50, No. 1.
“To spiritually illumined souls, time does not exist. … Through their enlightened eyes, they can actually see each thing re-creating itself from moment to moment, then dissolving just as rapidly.”
(Note – this is a reprint of an article first published in John Roger Barrie’s 2024 book, The Deepest Silence and Other Essays on Contemporary Spirituality.)
Unfortunately, the Parabola magazine version of this article contained around two dozen typographical errors that were not in John Roger Barrie’s original essay. Parabola gracefully acknowledged its responsibility in causing these errors in a posting on its website’s home page in February 2025, which we have reproduced below:
