Cover: A Bell Ringing In The Empty Sky
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A Bell Ringing In The Empty Sky

The Best Of The Sun, Volume I

This first volume from The Sun's first decade is a glimpse into the magazine’s early years. "Subtle, sometimes mystical," the Los Angeles Times says, "this anthology never disappoints, alternating whimsical essays with soulful contemplations."

CONTENTS

Foreword
Sy Safransky

Sy’s Spac
Lorenzo W. Milam

News From El Corazon: In The Composing Room
Pat Ellis Taylor

Sharing History, With Rufus
John Rosenthal

Riches
Sy Safransky

Autobiography #40
Carl Mitcham

Stories
Sparrow

Quiet Life In A Loud World
Robert Horvitz

Family Stories
Ramona Alvarodiaz

Fathers
Sy Safransky

Angel At The Gate
David Guy

Opened Flesh, Naked Spirit
Elizabeth Rose Campbell

Sara Elizabeth
Sy Safransky

Being A Parent
John Rosenthal, Patience Blandford, Dee Dee Small-Hooker

Insisting On Love
John Rosenthal

First Sexual Experiences

The Pornographer
David C. Childers

Savarin
Richard Williams

Wine: A Lesson In Self-Discovery
Frank Graziano

Maps To Where You Live
Joel Jackson

Possessiveness And Jealousy
Brian Knave

At Work
Joe Blankenship

The Choice Of Emptiness
Jim Ralston

Three Photographs
John Rosenthal

Sickness
Paul Kommel

Cholestiatoma
David Koteen

Nothing Scares Me
Dusty Miller

Facing The Struggle
Peg Staley

Asking After My Own Light
Roger Sauls

On The Mind And Cancer
Stephanie Matthews-Simonton

The Dolphin Messenger
Michael Shorb

Patricia Sun
Elizabeth Rose Campbell

Oil
Alan Brilliant

Fugitives
Carol Hoppe

There Is No School On The Second Floor
Ron Jones

Looking Back: Tuli Kupferberg On The Not-So-Bygone Sixties
Howard Jay Rubin

Kicking The Corpse — Or Is This Love?
Sy Safransky

How To Really Change Society
Sparrow, Bruce Terrell, Gerard Saucier

Peace Nigger’s Long March
David Grant

Chronicles
Michael Shorb

Going Against The Dragon: An Interview With Robert Bly
Sy Safransky

Facing Fear
Dee Dee Small-Hooker

Lord Shantih
Thomas Wiloch

Kali Comes Home
Elizabeth Rose Campbell

Amazing Coincidences
Patricia Bralley

Spiritual Fascism In America
Moira Crone

Lou, Turn Up Your Hearing Aid
Karl Grossman

On Interviewing Swami Muktananda
Sy Safransky

Psychology Today
Judson Jerome

The Lazy Man
Thaddeus Golas

How Things Came Into Existence
Franklin Mills

Living Within The Question: An Interview With Reshad Feild
Howard Jay Rubin

Tales Of Trickster
David Citino

An Evening With Ram Dass

Zen And The Art Of Peanut Butter
W.G. McDonald