
Parallax
By Andrew Sweeny
Heterodox magazine for philosophy, spirituality and psychology

ParallaxSep 28, 2023

The Parallax View #103: Clusterfuck
Where are the comedians when you need them?

The Parallax View #102: Lower Standards
Tom and Andrew ramble about envy and the nitty gritty stuff inbetween

The Parallax Extravaganza #4: Process and Event (Bard-Ebert-Hamelryck-Cox)
In this edition of the Parallax Extravaganza #4, we dig into Alexander Bards new book "Process and Event", the scapegoat mechanism & Russell Brand and a lot of explosive surplus energy.
With Alexander Bard, Alex Ebert, Thomas Hamelryck and Owen Cox
Alex Ebert is an erstwhile multiplatinum songwriter and Golden Globe-winning film composer now taking up philosophy in New Orleans. He is currently finishing his first book, Dead Cool, an analysis of sociodynamics and status anxiety in the age of Cool.
Alexander Bard: Alexander Bard is a Swedish author, lecturer, artist, songwriter, music producer, TV personality, philosopher and political activist, and one of the founders of the Syntheist movement along with his co-author Jan Söderqvist. His books include “The Futurica Trilogy”, “Digital Libido” & “Syntheism”.
Thomas Hamelryck is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Bioinformatics Centre at the University of Copenhagen Biocenter. His academic research interests revolve around Machine learning, Bayesian statistics, Protein Structure Prediction, Probabilistic Programming, Deep Learning. He is also an enthusiast of Réne Girard, and denies all rumours that he was once the keyboard player for Depeche Mode.
Owen Cox is the Host of Technosocial Podcast, Teacher at Maniphesto Media Academy & Freelance Researcher

New Parallax Course! O.G. Rose - Look at the Birds in the Air - How we must unplan our lives.
Course Starts Saturday, November 4th:
https://parallax-media.eu/courses/og-rose-look-at-the-birds-of-the-air
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As the second instalment of our ‘Tools for Conviviality’ courses, philosophers Michel and Daniel Gardner, otherwise known as O.G. Rose, will discuss Ivan Illich in light of their own ideas and thoughts of great philosophers. The title of their course says it all in the most tantalising way. “Look at The Birds of The Air - How We Must Unplan Our Lives”! Bio: A finalist for the UNO Press Lab Prize and Pushcart Nominee, O.G. Rose’s creative works appear at The Write Launch, Allegory Ridge, Ponder Review, Iowa Review online, The William and Mary Review, Assure Press, Toho Journal online, O:JA&L, West Trade Review, Broken Pencil, Burningword, and Poydras Review. While at the University of Virginia, O.G. Rose worked collaboratively with other artists at Eunoia, a creative community Rose helped develop. Rose now lives on a farm with three children, manages a venue named Mead Lake Lodge, and teaches piano using visuals from the DLG Pattern Method. Their published books include The Conflict of Mind (2021), Thoughts (2022), and Belonging Again: Part 1 (2023).
Artist link: https://www.og-rose.com

The Parallax View #101: Higher Standards
Tom and Andrew ramble about philosopher kings, and their sex-practices

Love or Die #4: A Conversation Series with Marc Gafni - Sabbatai, Sevi, Sara, and the Messiah
Subscribe to our substack: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar In this passionate conversation, Marc speaks the unspeakable: about Sabbatai Sevi, The Hebrew Wisdom Messiah and his wife Sara. Where sex and Eros meet religion and the clarification of desire. Dr. Marc Gafni is a visionary thinker, social activist, and passionate philosopher. He is known for his “source code teachings,” including Unique Self theory, the Five Selves, the Amorous Cosmos, A Politics of Evolutionary Love, A Return to Eros and Digital Intimacy. He is author of over twenty-five books, including the award-winning Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, as well as Orthodox rabbinic ordination. He teaches on the cutting edge of philosophy and spirit in the West, with the aim of participating in the articulation of what Dr. Gafni together with Dr. Zak Stein and colleagues are calling CosmoErotic Humanism. At the core of CosmoErotic Humanism is what Dr. Gafni and Dr. Stein are calling ‘First Principles and First Values,’ Anthro-Ontology and a “Universal Grammar of Value.” This shared story rooted in First Principles and First Values can then serve as the matrix for a global ethos for a global civilization. Dr. Gafni is the Co-Founder and Co-President of the Office for the Future, the Center for World Religion and Philosophy and the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. At the core of their shared missions is the articulation and delivery into culture of a Great Library - in multiple forms - which participates in evolving the source code of consciousness and culture in response to the Meta Crisis.
Website Dr. Marc Gafni: http://www.marcgafni.com Your Unique Self: the Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment (book): http://bit.ly/3FkFhli A Return to Eros: the Radical Experience of Being Fully Alive (book): https://bit.ly/3XRCA28

The Parallax View #100: Sloterdijk´s Dream
Tom and Andrew ramble about Marshall McLuhan reading texts, Lacan´s Real and Peterson´s Ordeal

Sweeny vs Bard #56 - Back in Black
After a bit of a hiatus, Sweeny vs Bard are back to talk about core Bardism, Alexander’s new book Process and Event, Zoraster, Marx, Time, Space, and God. Please enjoy this feast.
Links to courses at Parallax starting Sunday, September 10th:
https://parallax-media.eu/courses/the-convivial-life-conversations-with-ivan-illich-friends

The Parallax View #99: Zombie ideas
We are on a shooting range: We-Spaces, meaning crisis, postmodernism, metamodernism, time between worlds, sangha and spirituality.

Kulturwang #7: Thot-GPT
About cringe Tik Tok Dances, and the female urge to expose themselves

Parallax Academy # 17 - David Cayley and Bonnitta Roy on Ivan Illich - Friendship in the network age
This conversation is in advance of Bonnitta Roy's THE CONVIVIAL LIFE - CONVERSATIONS WITH IVAN ILLICH & FRIENDS, which begins on Sunday, September 10th and runs every Sunday until October 1. It will include prerecorded lectures, live Zoom sessions and campfire community sessions. For more information and to join us in the learning and conviviality, please check out the links below:
https://parallax-media.eu/courses/the-convivial-life-conversations-with-ivan-illich-friends
Bonnitta Roy is a visioneer, insight guide and horse whisperer. Her work is deeply embodied and grounded, and over the last several years, she's shown us how to trust the intelligence of life again. She is founder of Alderlore Insight Center and curates wickedly provocative and seriously surprising conversations at The Pop-UP School.David Cayley is a Toronto-based Canadian writer and broadcaster who is known for documenting the philosophy of prominent thinkers of the 20th century - Ivan Illich, Northrop Frye, George Grant, and Rene Girard. His work has been broadcast on CBC Radio One's programme Ideas. He is the author of man books, including the recent biography Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey.

Kulturwang #6 : The Bodycount Identity
Masha and Tom dig into Baracks and Ninas bodycount and try to find out if the womens identity is defined by whom she is dating.

The Parallax View #98: In Taylor we trust
Tom and Andrew ramble about Taylor Swift, the Pareto-distribution, the dialectic of collective conscious and unconscious, and a world with a naked women in it´s center.

The Parallax View #97: Lacan and stuff
The one and only Cadell Last joins the show to tell us something about Lacan and his Ecrits.
Cadell is anthropologist (M.Sc.) and philosopher (Ph.D.) with an interest in biocultural evolution, mind-matter relation, speculative futures, Hegel and Lacan. He offers now a course on Lacan on his Philosophy Portral.

Bonnitta Roy - The Convivial Life - Full conversation
Check out https://parallax-media.eu/courses for more info Bonnitta is a visioneer, insight guide and horse whisperer. Her work is deeply embodied and grounded, and over the last several years, she's shown us how to trust the intelligence of life again. She is the founder of Alderlore Insight Center and curates wickedly provocative and seriously surprising conversations at The Pop-UP School. Her course, THE CONVIVIAL LIFE - CONVERSATIONS WITH IVAN ILLICH & FRIENDS, begins on Sunday, September 10th and will continue every Sunday for the month of September. It will include prerecorded lectures, live Zoom sessions and campfire community sessions. For more information and join us in the learning and conviviality

The Parallax View #96: Schmoppenheimer
Tom and Andrew ramble about Oppenheimer, dreams and freak accidents

Prof. Dr. Dirk Baecker: On Media, Fake News and Niklas Luhmanns systems theory
Prof. Dr. Dirk Baecker is a sociologist and holds senior professorship for organization theory and theory of society at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen at Lake Constance. He studied systems theory with Niklas Luhmann.
He has been recognized as one of the most prominent German sociologists with important works on cultural theory, sociological theory, economic sociology and organizational sociology. He is the author of numerous books, including KATJEKTE, published at Merve.
In this conversation we talk about Luhmanns system theory and his media theory in context of Internet, digitalization and AI as well as how we can meaningfully differentiate between construction of media as a system property and fake news.

Kulturwang #3: Squirtology
Masha and Tom ask the relevant questions

The Convivial Life - With Bonnitta Roy
Check out https://parallax-media.eu/courses for more info Bonnitta is a visioneer, insight guide and horse whisperer. Her work is deeply embodied and grounded, and over the last several years, she's shown us how to trust the intelligence of life again. She is the founder of Alderlore Insight Center and curates wickedly provocative and seriously surprising conversations at The Pop-UP School. Her course, THE CONVIVIAL LIFE - CONVERSATIONS WITH IVAN ILLICH & FRIENDS, begins on Sunday, September 10th and will continue for 4 weeks. It will include prerecorded lectures, live Zoom sessions and campfire community sessions. For more information and join us in the learning and conviviality

Love or Die #3: A conversation series with Marc Gafni - AI and Hebrew Wisdom
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The 3rd of a monthly series of discussions, Love or Die, in which Marc and Andrew discuss the meta-crisis, Hebrew Wisdom and AI. How can we rewrite the source code of the present epoch and create a new story? The stakes are high. It’s Love or Die!
Dr. Marc Gafni is a visionary thinker, social activist, and passionate philosopher. He is known for his “source code teachings,” including Unique Self theory, the Five Selves, the Amorous Cosmos, A Politics of Evolutionary Love, A Return to Eros and Digital Intimacy. He is author of over twenty-five books, including the award-winning Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, as well as Orthodox rabbinic ordination.
He teaches on the cutting edge of philosophy and spirit in the West, with the aim of participating in the articulation of what Dr. Gafni together with Dr. Zak Stein and colleagues are calling CosmoErotic Humanism. At the core of CosmoErotic Humanism is what Dr. Gafni and Dr. Stein are calling ‘First Principles and First Values,’ Anthro-Ontology and a “Universal Grammar of Value.” This shared story rooted in First Principles and First Values can then serve as the matrix for a global ethos for a global civilization.
Dr. Gafni is the Co-Founder and Co-President of the Office for the Future, the Center for World Religion and Philosophy and the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. At the core of their shared missions is the articulation and delivery into culture of a Great Library - in multiple forms - which participates in evolving the source code of consciousness and culture in response to the Meta Crisis.
Website Dr. Marc Gafni: http://www.marcgafni.com
Your Unique Self: the Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment (book):
http://bit.ly/3FkFhli
A Return to Eros: the Radical Experience of Being Fully Alive (book):
https://bit.ly/3XRCA28

The Parallax View #95: Hokuspokus
The boys review the Barbie movie and discover the laws of Magick

Parallax Talk: Deep Future #4: How to engage with the future (with Daniel Görtz and Michael Garfield)
Daniel Görtz and Michael Garfield in dialogue, hosted by Tom Amarque
"Evil is the annunciation of the next level of order"
Paleontologist-Futurist Michael Garfield is devoted to helping navigate our age of accelerating weirdness and helping cultivate the curiosity and play we'll need to thrive in it. As host and producer of both Future Fossils Podcast & The Santa Fe Institute's Complexity Podcast, Michael acts as interlocutor for a worldwide community of artists, scientists, and philosophers — a practice that feeds his synthetic and transdisciplinary "mind-jazz" performances in the form of essay, music, and fine art. Standard-bearer for a new generation of boundary-defying scholars, Michael refuses to be enslaved by a single perspective, creative medium, or intellectual community, walking through the walls between academia and festival culture, theory and practice — speaking and performing everywhere from Moogfest to Burning Man, SXSW to Boom Festival, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia to Long Now's Ignite Talks to The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors.
Daniel Görtz is the co-author, with Emil Esper Friis, of both “Hanzi Freinacht” books The Listening Society and Nordic Ideology. Daniel’s work approaches what many know as Ken Wilber’s integral theory, but considers its secular and practical application to politics, cultural currents in society, within the arts and beyond. He lives in Sweden and works for Metamoderna, the publisher of metamodern books, and for Glimworks, an IT-company where he is In-House Philosopher.

Kulturwang #1: Tranny Pageant Supremacy
The perverts Masha Anderson and Tom Amarque dig into Freak-Pageants, fuckibility factors, the Marilyn-Monroe-Mechanism and Sissy-Porn, Red Scare and Steve Bannon.
Go to patreon.com/kulturwang for more episodes

The Parallax View #94: Topless in the Church
Tom and Andrew ramble about the architecture of memes, archetypes, buildings, sex and innovation

The Parallax View #93: Paris is burning
There is no meaning crisis, there is no time between worlds.

Deep Future #3: The Future of A.I. (2nd edition/edited - with Alexander Bard, Thomas Hamelryck, Jim Rutt and Alex Ebert)
Edited audio, full unedited video available at Patreon. Hosted by Tom Amarque
Will A.I. flatten the human experience? Will new technologies disrupt ancient religious mechanisms like ritual, prohibition ans sacrifice? What is the future of A.I. itself?
Guests are: Swedish Philosopher Alexander Bard, Jim Rutt, Former Chairman Santa Fe Institute, Co-initiator of the Game B, and host of the popular podcast the Jim Rutt Show, American Philosopher and musician Alex Ebert and Thomas Hamelryck, a specialist in Bayesian modelling and probabilistic machine learning.

Parallax Academy #16 - Transgender Narratives- Beyond The Culture War
With Rachel Hayden, Adriana Forte, Aydan Connor Hosted by Andrew Sweeny
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Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculumMembership: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy is an educational and media-based network of friends, writers, teachers, and podcasters offering online study circles, classes, and offline events all over Europe A deep and revealing conversation about different aspects of the transgender experience—Ayden and Rachel, both having transitioned, share their experiences and reasons for transitioning as adults. We also discuss the dangers of the polarising debate on transgenderism on both sides of the culture war. Some surprising and necessary insights.
Rachel Hayden met with her own gender crisis several years ago. Finding the dogma of "trans ideology" insufficient and problematic, she turned to scientists and thinkers on the liminal web for guidance, eventually developing an aspirational model of gender transition for herself. She has become increasingly fascinated by gender over time and has spoken publicly with many others on the subject, including John Vervaeke, Gregg Henriques, and Alexander Bard. Her interest has recently turned toward healthy models of gender for non-trans people, and she is following the work of such thinkers as Bard, Fanny Norlin, and co-presenter Adriana Forte-Naili to enrich her understanding in this regard.
Aydan Connor is a Transman who currently works as a craft beer brewer. He has been slowly entering the conversations in the liminal web space after finding John Vervaeke’s Meaning Crisis work through his interview on Jordan Peterson’s podcast. In contrast to the superficial biological essentialist trans debate happening in the anti-woke circles surrounding Jordan Peterson, Aydan quickly discovered John Vervaeke’s interview with Rachel Hayden, which demonstrated a rich and nuanced interest in the psychology and cognitive science of sex and gender, and most importantly, acknowledged the brain as part of our biology. Aydan has been in regular conversation with Rachel, and now also with Adriana, and is increasingly urgent and invested in finding a way to deepen our conversations about gender and sex, hoping to reverse the current trend of scapegoating trans people.
Adriana Forte Naili is a coach and facilitator, but she currently spends a lot of her time speaking about the cyclical nature of the female body. Experiencing the double bind of appreciating her cyclical nature and feeling stifled by Modernity’s pressures and expectations, she dove deeply into the question; “how do I show up as a cyclical being in a world that imagines itself linear?” This inquiry has led her into many rabbit holes, including deep explorations of our social constructs and the ways they shape our bodies, our psyches, our relationships and the systems that we create. She has become increasingly active in the “Liminal Web” having conversations with a meta thinkers, futurists and philosophers in an attempt to awaken us from our “linear” daze. She sees both Rachel Hayden and Aydan Connor as friends and colleagues in this journey of bringing nuance to the “gender” conversation. You can find out more about her work and vision at: (https://finelinefullcircle.substack.com/, https://www.youtube.com/@finelinefullcircle/videos) and https://www.fullyhuman.net.au/

The Parallax View #91: What is a book? (with Cadell Last)
Philosopher Cadell Last from Philosophy Portal is joining the Parallax view to talk about Nietzsche, Leadership and the function of books.

Parallax Academy # 15 - Jamie Wheal - Radical Optimism and the Rapture
Consider supporting us by donation via PayPal, Patronage or by becoming an Academy member: https://parallax-media.eu/donate Catching up with the eloquent Jamie Wheel about culture and existential threat. How to be radically optomistic and realistic at the same time in the search for extacy. Biography (source: https://www.flowgenomeproject.com/tea...) Jamie Wheal is the Executive Director of The Flow Genome Project and leading expert in the neurophysiology of human performance. His work combines a background in expeditionary education, wilderness medicine, and surf rescue, with over a decade of advising high-growth companies on strategy, execution, and leadership. Jamie's coaching ranges from Fortune 500 companies like Cisco, Google, and Nike, to the U.S. Naval War College, and Red Bull. You'll find him speaking on the intersection of science and human potential to diverse, high-performance communities like Young President's Organization, Summit Series, TED, and MaiTai Global. At the Flow Genome Project, he leads a team of the world’s top scientists, athletes, and artists dedicated to mapping the genome of the peak-performance state known as Flow. He lives on the Colorado River with his wife Julie, their two kids Lucas and Emma, and a righteous Golden Retriever named Cassie. He is the author of Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work as well as Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost Its Mind." Parallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy is an educational and media-based network of friends, writers, teachers, and podcasters offering online study circles, classes, and offline events all over Europe

"Parallax Academy # 14 - Luke Behncke - On Gurdjieff And The 4th Way "
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A deep conversation about the relevance of Gurdjieff And The 4th Way. Hosted by Andrew Sweeny
Raised in rural and outback Australia, Luke’s background in biomedical science and physical education, with diverse interests in philosophy, religion and art - ultimately drew him to Gurdjieff’s system, where he has been a practitioner working with groups and individuals from around the world since 2000. Explorations related to Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way and Christianity can be found on his blogsite at 'Faith made Flesh.
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Parallax Academy is an educational and media-based network of friends, writers, teachers, and podcasters offering online study circles, classes, and offline events all over Europe

The Parallax View #90: Sophemes
Tom and Andrew ramble about Sophemes, Spandrels and Spaces inbetween

Love or Die #2: A conversation series with Marc Gafni - Radical Kabbalah
Consider supporting us by donation via PayPal, Patronage or by becoming an Academy member: https://parallax-media.eu/donate The 2nd of a monthly series of discussions, Love or Die, in which Marc elaborates on what he has called 'The global intimacy crisis' and 'CosmoErotic Humanism'. How can we rewrite the source code of the present epoch and create a new story? The stakes are high. It’s Love or Die! This week we delve into Hebrew Wisdom and Radical Kabbalah. "Dr. Marc Gafni is a visionary thinker, social activist, and passionate philosopher. He is known for his “source code teachings,” including Unique Self theory, the Five Selves, the Amorous Cosmos, A Politics of Evolutionary Love, A Return to Eros and Digital Intimacy. He is author of over twenty-five books, including the award-winning Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, as well as Orthodox rabbinic ordination. He teaches on the cutting edge of philosophy and spirit in the West, with the aim of participating in the articulation of what Dr. Gafni together with Dr. Zak Stein and colleagues are calling CosmoErotic Humanism. At the core of CosmoErotic Humanism is what Dr. Gafni and Dr. Stein are calling ‘First Principles and First Values,’ Anthro-Ontology and a “Universal Grammar of Value.” This shared story rooted in First Principles and First Values can then serve as the matrix for a global ethos for a global civilization. Dr. Gafni is the Co-Founder and Co-President of the Office for the Future, the Center for World Religion and Philosophy and the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. At the core of their shared missions is the articulation and delivery into culture of a Great Library - in multiple forms - which participates in evolving the source code of consciousness and culture in response to the Meta Crisis. Links: Website Dr. Marc Gafni: http://www.marcgafni.com Your Unique Self: the Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment (book): http://bit.ly/3FkFhli A Return to Eros: the Radical Experience of Being Fully Alive (book): https://bit.ly/3XRCA28

Deep Future II: The Future of A.I. (Parallax/IDW Extravaganza)
Alexander Bard - Jim Rutt - Alex Ebert - Thomas Hamelryck in dialogue, hosted by Tom Amarque
Tristan Harris proclaimed that 50% of all A.I. researches believe that there is a 10 % chance that humans go extinct because of our inability to control A.I.
What should our relationship to A.I. be? Will only the elites have the chance to be disconnected? Will A.I. completely accomodate our pleasure principle? Will we maintain freedom? Should be be worried, cautious, or adventorous.
Guests are: Swedish Philosopher Alexander Bard, Jim Rutt, Former Chairman Santa Fe Institute, Co-initiator of the Game B, and host of the popular podcast the Jim Rutt Show, American Philosopher and musician Alex Ebert and Thomas Hamelryck, a specialist in Bayesian modelling and probabilistic machine learning.

Parallax Academy # 13 - O.G. Rose - AI, Kids, and The Owl of Minerva
A delightful and weirdly optimistic conversation with Daniel and Michelle Garner about the AI revolution, raising kids, and the importance of intrinsic as opposed to extrinsic motivation.
A finalist for the UNO Press Lab Prize and Pushcart Nominee, O.G. Rose’s creative works appear at The Write Launch, Allegory Ridge, Ponder Review, Iowa Review online, The William and Mary Review, Assure Press, Toho Journal online, O:JA&L, West Trade Review, Broken Pencil, Burningword, and Poydras Review. While at the University of Virginia, O.G. Rose worked collaboratively with other artists at Eunoia, a creative community Rose helped develop. Rose now lives on a farm with three children, manages a venue named Mead Lake Lodge, and teaches piano using visuals from the DLG Pattern Method. Their published books include The Conflict of Mind (2021), Thoughts (2022), and Belonging Again: Part 1 (2023).
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The Parallax View #88: The Beast, and the Whore
Masha Anderson, podcast host from Pangburn, joins Tom and Andrew for a wide-ranging and mind-bending discussion about sex and archetype. Find
her at @mashadiaspora
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ABOUT PARALLAX
NEW NARRATIVES FOR A COMPLEX WORLD
The
Grand narratives that once sustained us are broken and diverse ideologies have captured our attention. Parallax wants to explore the underlying issues of our current sense-making crisis and offer constructive new perspectives and stories. Who are we and who can we become in the death throes of modernism and postmodernism?
WHAT IS PARALLAX?
Parallax is an European online media platform offering constructive and fresh perspectives for the post-post modern age. We publish essays and podcasts, webinars and lectures, and are a hub for original and heterodox thinking.
The word ‘parallax’ stems from the old greek παράλλαξις parállaxis, which means to shift the viewpoint of the observer. The name suggests psychoactive
and alternative sensemaking, as opposed to mainstream narratives and ideologies.
Through our work with various european ‘digital tribes’, we create media and Bildung (education), and promote social, cognitive and spiritual development. Moreover, we aim provide a european counterpoint to the dominant anglo-saxon narratives.

Parallax Academy # 12: Shozan Jack Haubner: Tathagata Zen
Shozan Jack Haubner talks to Andrew Sweeny about Zen, Comedy, Love, Learning to Die, Leonard Cohen, and other things that matter the most. Shozan describes himself as a Zen priest, writer, bon vivant, and confused renunciate. Failed screenwriter, poet, stand-up comic, and Catholic. Available for parties. He is also the award-winning author of Single White Monk: Tales of Death, Failure, and Bad Sex (Although Not Necessarily in that Order) and Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk He also runs a great YouTube channel called Zen Confidential: Links: Zen Confidential: https://www.youtube.com/@zenconfidential25 Books by Shozan: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shozan-Jack-Haubner/e/B00BU82XU6%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Parallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership and Donation: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy is an educational and media-based network of friends, writers, teachers, and podcasters offering online study circles, classes, and offline events all over Europe.

The Parallax View #87: The other Big Five
Tom and Andrew ramble about the the irregularities around the margins

Parallax Academy # 11: Tammy Peterson: Listening, Beauty, and Wrestling With God
Tammy Peterson catches up with Andrew Sweeny and speaks about her Catholic conversion, storytelling, her husband Jordan Peterson's tours, a critique of feminism, the need for deep listening, prayer, beauty, negotiation and wrestling with God. A wise and quiet but articulate counterpart to her firebrand husband! Links: https://www.youtube.com/@Tammy-Peterson/about Parallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership and Donation: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy is an educational and media-based network of friends, writers, teachers, and podcasters offering online study circles, classes, and offline events all over Europe

The Parallax View #86: The shape of things to come
Tom and Andrew ramble about pyramids, critical paths, AI, doom and gloom, Baudelaire´s great poem on drunkenness, and beauty in the streets of Palma.

Parallax Academy # 10: Zak Stein - The Coming of The Supermind - Education and AI
A conversation with educational philosopher Dr Zak Stein about the future of education, AI, and its dystopian and utopian possibilities. What happens when we create the supermind. Hosted by Andrew Sweeny Zak Stein studied philosophy and religion at Hampshire College, and then educational neuroscience, human development, and the philosophy of education at Harvard University. While a student at Harvard, he co-founded what would become Lectica, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to the research-based, justice-oriented reform of large-scale standardized testing in K-12, higher-education, and business. He is also a writer whose work has appeared in a variety of journals including American Psychologist, New Ideas in Psychology, Mind, Brain, and Education, Integral Review, and the Journal of Philosophy of Education. He has published two books, Social Justice and Educational Measurement a dissertation that traces the history of standardized testing and its ethical implications, and Education in a Time Between Worlds, which expands the philosophical work to include grappling with the relations between schooling and technology more broadly. Learn more about Zak's work: http://www.zakstein.org/ Parallax Academy is an educational and media-based network of friends, writers, teachers, and podcasters offering online study circles, classes, and offline events all over Europe. Parallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership and Donation: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar"

Love or Die #1: A conversation series with Marc Gafni
Hosted by Andrew Sweeny
The first of a monthly series of discussions, Love or Die, in which Marc elaborates on what he has called 'The global intimacy crisis' and 'CosmoErotic Humanism'. How can we rewrite the source code of the present epoch and create a new story? The stakes are high. It’s Love or Die!
Dr. Marc Gafni is a visionary thinker, social activist, and passionate philosopher. He is known for his “source code teachings,” including Unique Self theory, the Five Selves, the Amorous Cosmos, A Politics of Evolutionary Love, A Return to Eros and Digital Intimacy. He is author of over twenty-five books, including the award-winning Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, as well as Orthodox rabbinic ordination.
He teaches on the cutting edge of philosophy and spirit in the West, with the aim of participating in the articulation of what Dr. Gafni together with Dr. Zak Stein and colleagues are calling CosmoErotic Humanism. At the core of CosmoErotic Humanism is what Dr. Gafni and Dr. Stein are calling ‘First Principles and First Values,’ Anthro-Ontology and a “Universal Grammar of Value.” This shared story rooted in First Principles and First Values can then serve as the matrix for a global ethos for a global civilization.
Dr. Gafni is the Co-Founder and Co-President of the Office for the Future, the Center for World Religion and Philosophy and the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. At the core of their shared missions is the articulation and delivery into culture of a Great Library - in multiple forms - which participates in evolving the source code of consciousness and culture in response to the Meta Crisis.
Website Dr. Marc Gafni:
http://www.marcgafni.com
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The Parallax View #85: Coronation (with Arabella Thais)
Arabella Thais is a writer, philosopher and podcast host. We ramble about art as an antidote to existential dread.

Parallax Academy # 9: Angela Puca - Witchcraft, Magick, And Paganism
Hosted by Andrew Sweeny
Dr Angela Puca holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Philosophy. In 2021, The University of Leeds awarded her a PhD in Anthropology of Religion, which will soon be published with Brill. Her research focuses on magic, witchcraft, Paganism, esotericism, shamanism, and related currents.
Author of several peer-reviewed publications and co-editor of the forthcoming ‘Pagan religions in five minutes’ for Equinox, she hopes to bridge the gap between academia and the communities of magic practitioners by delivering related scholarly content on her YouTube Channel and TikTok ‘Angela’s Symposium.’
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Jules Evans: More evolved than you (and other spiritual pathologies)
Jules Evans is a writer, historian of ideas and practical philosopher. Jules is now leading the Challenging Psychedelic Experiences Project - researching psychedelic harm reduction, ethics and integration. He wrote the essay 'More evolved than you', outlining several spiritual pathologies. In this talk, we delve into his essay.

The Parallax View #84: Hard Job
Tom and Andrew ramble about the patriarchy, a trans-spectrum, and tough handjobs.

Parallax Academy # 8: John Vervaeke and Christopher Mastropietro - After Socrates and Kierkegaard
Hosted by Andrew Sweeny
A discussion with philosopher and cognitive scientist John Vervaeke and his writing partner Christopher Mastropietro about the philosophers they love best: for John, Socrates for and Christopher Søren Kierkegaard.
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Parallax Academy # 7: Fanny Norlin - Awakening The Feminine And Honouring The Masculine
Hosted by Andrew Sweeny
Fanny Norlin has for the past ten years lived and breathed decentralised initiatives, where she, for the past five years, has specialised in the role the feminine and masculine play for leaders, organisations and the emerging society. She has created a framework that can help us cut through the culture wars and distorted versions of both polarities and unleash the power and creative potential between them. She is an engineer and economist, ex-C-level of one of Sweden’s largest and Europe’s most innovative e-commerce, a deep practitioner of decentralised leadership and a leader of the feminine leadership movement within the business world. https://www.fannynorlin.com/
Parallax academy is an educational and media-based network of friends, writers, teachers, and podcasters offering online study circles, classes, and offline events all over Europe.
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The Parallax View #83: The Laws of Money
Tom Amarque and Andrew Sweeny ramble about society as an organism, resonance, chance, offerings and the sweet smell of success

Pamela Von Sabljar - Living From Eros
Hosted by Andrew Sweeny How are men and women different? An inquiry into the male and female principle, spirituality, tantra, and eros. Pamela von Sabljar is a new breed speaker, facilitator, and mentor working at the evolutionary edge. She practices dialoguing, sensing, creating, and leading from this ever-emergent edge. She calls this Living from Eros. Links: https://www.pamelavonsabljar.com Parallax academy is an educational and media-based network of friends, writers, teachers, and podcasters offering online study circles, classes, and offline events all over Europe. Parallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership and Donation: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar

The Parallax View #82: Excess and absence (with Alex Ebert)
Alex Ebert is an American singer-songwriter, best known for being the lead singer and songwriter for the American band 'Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros'. He is an Golden Globe winning composer for the Robert Redford movie "All is lost". But most of all, Ebert is also a pretty deep and fascinating thinker and philosopher.
Tom Amarque and Andrew Sweeny invited him to The Parallax View to talk about "excess and absence", two core concepts of Ebert that interweave music and metaphysics and are entry-points to his worldview. Do it up.