Over the course of its twenty-five years of publication, Parabola Magazine has interviewed some of the most brilliant, wise, compassionate, and fascinating people from a wide variety of the world’s religious, spiritual, and cultural traditions. Gathering Sparks includes such notables as Thomas Berry, Ursula K. Le Guin, Oliver Sacks, Joseph Campbell, Chief Tom Porter, Chinua Achebe, Marion Woodman, Peter Brook, Elie Wiesel, H. H. the Dalai Lama, Father Bede Griffiths, Father Thomas Keating, Helen M. Luke, P. L. Travers, Michael Dames, Joseph Chilton Pearce, Frederick Franck, Arthur Amiotte, Heather Valencia, Sobonfu Somé, William Segal, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz and Kathleen Raine. Famous or obscure, familiar faces or strangers, the voices in Gathering Sparks have come together in a great chorus to share their wisdom, perspectives and diverse light with fellow seekers.