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The Hard Way - with Luke Bhencke - A new course exploring Gurdjieff's Fourth Way

ParallaxDec 09, 2023

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The Hard Way - with Luke Bhencke - A new course exploring Gurdjieff's Fourth Way

The Hard Way - with Luke Bhencke - A new course exploring Gurdjieff's Fourth Way

A deep conversation and a plug for Luke’s New course: https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/the-hard-way-with-luke-behncke In the early 20th Century, Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff brought an ancient system of personal transformation to the western world known as the ‘Fourth Way’ or the ‘Work’. He claimed that this system was the source of all spiritual traditions and now adapted for the modern world. Its focus is on the individual and community to understand the energies and forces of their nature through direct experience. In doing so, it would become possible to contact a different order of reality that can deepen the experience of life. Gurdjieff was clear that it is the most difficult work that anyone can undertake, but also the most productive. It calls for relentless authentic questioning and a discipline of special efforts that can enable a quality of relationship that nothing else can give. Gurdjieff affirmed that a sustained work of this kind would accelerate the necessary transformation of men and women to meet the demands of a responsible life while fulfilling their essential purpose. Join Luke Behncke in practically exploring some of the tenets of the Work on Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way - THE HARD WAY - from the Parallax Academy. Live sessions will be recorded, and participants will have access to a video of each recorded class. Participants will have one-on-one interviews with the instructor. Sign up here for this one time exclusive, never to be repeated experience. Links: Our Substack: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Homepage: www.Parallax-media.eu Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar"

Dec 09, 202301:08:40
Sweeny vs Bard #58 with Bonnitta Roy and Alexander Elung - Transcendental Emergentism part 2

Sweeny vs Bard #58 with Bonnitta Roy and Alexander Elung - Transcendental Emergentism part 2

The second part in a series with Bonnitta Roy, exploring metaphysics and transcendental emergentism—and other ideas circling around Alexander's new book Process and Event. With Special Guest Alexander Elung 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 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 founder of Alderlore Insight Center and curates wickedly provocative and seriously surprising conversations at The Pop-UP School: https://bonnittaroy.substack.com/,; https://a.co/d/4ZLYDnuLinks: Alexander Bard's Books: Process and Event, (2023)The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Syntheism – Creating God in the Internet Age (2014) Digital Libido - Sex, power and violence in the network society (2017)"

Dec 04, 202301:38:21
The Parallax View #111: Wilbers Dream

The Parallax View #111: Wilbers Dream

Tom and Andrew ramble about the subtle architecture of the mind

Nov 30, 202301:00:25
Deep Future Six: On Metamodernism (with Brendan Graham Dempsey and Tomas Björkman)

Deep Future Six: On Metamodernism (with Brendan Graham Dempsey and Tomas Björkman)

On the transition from the postmodern to the metamodern worldview, Brendans new book Metamodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Cultural Logics, the relationsship between MM and systems-theory and how to deal with money/capitalism in a metamodern way. Subscribe to our Substack: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax: https://parallax-media.eu Brendan Graham Dempsey is a writer, poet, farmer, and the director of Sky Meadow Institute, an organization dedicated to promoting systems-based thinking about the things that matter most. He holds a BA in religious studies from the University of Vermont and a master's in religion and art from Yale University. He is the author of the 7-volume Metamodern Spirituality Series and, most recently, Metamodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Cultural Logics. His primary interests include theorizing developments in culture after postmodernism, productively bridging the divide between science and spirituality, and developing sustainable systems for life to flourish. All of these lead through the paradigms of emergence and complexity, which inform all of his work. Tomas Björkman is an entrepreneur and financier, and has over the past 25 years built innovative international companies in the areas of banking and real estate. His entrepreneurship combined with a keen interest in both society and science led to the creation of the the Ekskäret Foundation in 2008. Tomas himself describes in the forewords of the book ‘Changing the world we create’ why he started and is still very involved in foundation: “In my twenties, I had the choice between an academic career in theoretical physics or the world of commerce. I chose the latter and spent twenty-five years in business. Eventually, I sold my company to one of Switzerland’s larger banks continuing for a time to serve on its board. But the call of the world of ideas was irresistible. My background in theoretical physics and as an entrepreneur in information technology, investment banking and property development had allowed me to learn about and view our existence from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. My personal drive increasingly became to unlock the hidden structures of the world around me. I sought to bridge many academic fields including cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology and sociology. I started searching for connections that form the evolving whole. This curiosity led me to spend a decade researching and writing “The World We Create”. I also established the Ekskäret Foundation to facilitate the co-creation of a more conscious society.


Nov 29, 202301:50:20
The Parallax View #110: The Hard Way (with Luke Behncke)
Nov 23, 202301:05:08
Love or Die #6: A conversation series with Marc Gafni - The Tree of Life - Part 1

Love or Die #6: A conversation series with Marc Gafni - The Tree of Life - Part 1

Andrew questions Marc about the famous Tree of Life and the ten Sephirot in Hebrew Kabbalah. An introduction and a radical interpretation. And a discussion on the first Sepirot, Keter, the crown. Our Substack: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Homepage: www.Parallax-media.eu Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar 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 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.

Nov 17, 202301:01:31
The Parallax View #109: Reviewing David Finchers´The Killer'

The Parallax View #109: Reviewing David Finchers´The Killer'

Tom Amarque and Andrew Sweeny ramble about the newest Fincher flick

Nov 16, 202351:35
Love or Die #5 with Marc Gafni: Sabbatai Sevi - Part 2

Love or Die #5 with Marc Gafni: Sabbatai Sevi - Part 2

In part 2 of 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. Our Substack: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Homepage: www.Parallax-media.eu Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar 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 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.

Nov 11, 202301:01:54
The Parallax View #108 - On Israel and Palestine

The Parallax View #108 - On Israel and Palestine

Tom and Andrew ramble about the barbarians at the gate.

Nov 09, 202354:05
KULTURWANG #17: Jordan Peterson - Culture Chud

KULTURWANG #17: Jordan Peterson - Culture Chud

or: How to undress Postmodernism.

Nov 08, 202301:07:01
Marc Gafni and Bonnitta Roy - What is lineage?

Marc Gafni and Bonnitta Roy - What is lineage?

Links:

Our Substack: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Homepage: www.Parallax-media.euEvents: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendarParallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar

Bio: 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 founder of Alderlore Insight Center and curates wickedly provocative and seriously surprising conversations at The Pop-UP School.

https://bonnittaroy.substack.com/


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.

Nov 05, 202301:23:41
The Parallax View #107 - And Triggernometry

The Parallax View #107 - And Triggernometry

Tom and Andrew ramble about way more successful podcasts.

Nov 02, 202353:06
Deep Future #5: Ghosts, Cracks and the Art of Living (with Nora Bateson and Susanne Cook-Greuter)

Deep Future #5: Ghosts, Cracks and the Art of Living (with Nora Bateson and Susanne Cook-Greuter)

In many ways, our understanding of and our relationship to our future forms and shapes us. Yet there is a subtle feeling that this relationship with the future itself is currently changing. We are collectively confronted with a lot of problems that are already here or are approaching us fast from a horizon before us, And yet we know that we can´t solve these problems with the current mindset. We don´t even know if our collective framing of that horizon and the events that we are anticipating, is the best one. Nora Bateson is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and educator, as well as President of the International Bateson Institute, based in Sweden. Her work asks the question “How we can improve our perception of the complexity we live within, so we may improve our interaction with the world?” She just publishes her wonderful new book 'Combining', which is an embodiment of her recent work on Warm Data and offers a radical ecological approach to many of the key issues of our time: climate change, political upheaval, education, health, food and relationships. Susanne Cook-Greuter is internationally known as the leading expert in mature ego development and self-actualization. She does ongoing research and development and is outher of the book "Postautonomous Ego Development: A Study of Its Nature and Measurement"


Oct 27, 202301:19:51
KULTURWANG #16: Adjacent Reviews Part 1

KULTURWANG #16: Adjacent Reviews Part 1

Talking about 'Killers of the Flower Moon' without talking about it

Oct 27, 202301:10:05
The Parallax View #106 - Re: Sapolsky

The Parallax View #106 - Re: Sapolsky

Tom and Andrew ramble about free will and the reincarnation of Abraham

Oct 26, 202349:03
KULTURWANG #15: Lets get Swifty

KULTURWANG #15: Lets get Swifty

Taylor Swift got send into heaven, Libido got transformed into Mortido, and Israel became the woman


Oct 20, 202301:21:42
Sweeny vs Bard #57 with Bonnitta Roy - Transcendental Emergentism

Sweeny vs Bard #57 with Bonnitta Roy - Transcendental Emergentism

The beginning of a series with Bonnitta Roy, exploring metaphysics and transcendental emergentism—and other ideas circling around Alexander's new book Process and Event. 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 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 founder of Alderlore Insight Center and curates wickedly provocative and seriously surprising conversations at The Pop-UP School: https://bonnittaroy.substack.com/,; https://a.co/d/4ZLYDnuLinks: Alexander Bard's Books: Process and Event, (2023)The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Syntheism – Creating God in the Internet Age (2014) Digital Libido - Sex, power and violence in the network society (2017)

Oct 19, 202301:30:55
O.G. Rose and Cadell Last - Unplanning, Ivan Illich, and a new course at Parallax

O.G. Rose and Cadell Last - Unplanning, Ivan Illich, and a new course at Parallax

New Courses at Parallax: https://parallax-media.eu/courses/og-rose-look-at-the-birds-of-the-air https://parallax-media.eu/courses/the-hard-way-with-luke-behncke 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 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). A conversation with Daniel Gardner of O.G. Rose and Cadell Last about the new course coming up at Parallax and the difference between planning and being prepared. A rich philosophical discussion. "Cadell Last is an anthropologist, philosopher and therapist focused on biocultural evolution, mind-matter relation and future speculations. He earned his PhD in interdisciplinary and complexity studies at the Evolution, Cognition and Complexity group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is also the author of over a dozen academic publications and several books: Global Brain Singularity and Sex, Masculinity, and God. He is the founder of The Philosophy Portal.

Oct 14, 202301:16:50
Kulturwang #14: Cumming in hot

Kulturwang #14: Cumming in hot

When the rubber meets the road.

Oct 13, 202301:12:41
The Parallax View #105: Ressentiment

The Parallax View #105: Ressentiment

Tom and Andrew ramble about Aphanipoiesis , libido and death-drive and the Israel/Palenstine conflict.

Oct 12, 202342:48
Greg Kaminkski - “A Revelation of Wonderment: Reflections on Traktung Rinpoche's 9 Spheres Teachings, 2017-2022”- A dangerous New Book

Greg Kaminkski - “A Revelation of Wonderment: Reflections on Traktung Rinpoche's 9 Spheres Teachings, 2017-2022”- A dangerous New Book

An intense and heartfelt discussion of Greg Kaminski's dangerous new book. On the vicissitudes and wonders of the spiritual path from the perspective of Dzogchen/Tantra and the 9 spheres of divinity. Greg Kaminsky is a practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhism and a close student of Traktung Rinpoche. He is also a scholar of medieval studies, an explorer of Mysteries with a deep knowledge of Western esotericism, and a long-time podcaster. His prior works include an essay in "The Art and Science of Initiation" (2019) and the forthcoming "Celestial Intelligences—Angelology, Cabala, and Gnosis: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Quest for the Perennial Philosophy" (2021). Additionally, he has authored two books on Vajrayana, including "A Revelation of Wonderment: Reflections on Traktung Rinpoche's 9 Spheres Teachings (2017-2022)" and "PRONAOS: Reflections on the Preliminary Practices of Buddhist Tantra from a Western Perspective."'(202) You can find Greg's podcast, "Occult of Personality," at http://occultofpersonality.net/. You can reach him via email at brothergreg@protonmail.com. New Courses at Parallax: https://parallax-media.eu/courses/og-rose-look-at-the-birds-of-the-air https://parallax-media.eu/courses/the-hard-way-with-luke-behncke 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

Oct 10, 202301:27:39
The Parallax View #104: Doomsday Fetishism

The Parallax View #104: Doomsday Fetishism

A proper assault on the meta-crisis, amongst and other things.

Oct 05, 202355:40
Jordan Hall - Civium and Tools for Conviviality

Jordan Hall - Civium and Tools for Conviviality

New Courses at Parallax: https://parallax-media.eu/courses/og-rose-look-at-the-birds-of-the-air https://parallax-media.eu/courses/the-hard-way-with-luke-behncke 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 I asked Jordan about his relationship with the philosopher and historian Ivan Illich and how that relates to his concept of Civium and his recent article: https://deepcode.substack.com/p/from-city-to-civium Jordan Hall is a visionary philosopher celebrated for his groundbreaking insights into the realms of collective intelligence, sense-making, and the intricate tapestry of modern civilization. With a keen intellect and a penchant for unraveling complex societal dynamics, he has emerged as a guiding light in our quest to fathom the intricacies of our rapidly changing world. Hall's contributions to the global discourse extend beyond his words; he is a true architect of change. His work illuminates pathways for societies and communities to deftly navigate the labyrinthine challenges of the 21st century, offering a compass for those seeking to understand and shape our collective destiny. (written with the help of ChatGPT)

Oct 05, 202301:19:14
The Parallax View #103: Clusterfuck

The Parallax View #103: Clusterfuck

Where are the comedians when you need them?

Sep 28, 202354:06
The Parallax View #102: Lower Standards

The Parallax View #102: Lower Standards

Tom and Andrew ramble about envy and the nitty gritty stuff inbetween

Sep 20, 202350:42
The Parallax Extravaganza #4: Process and Event (Bard-Ebert-Hamelryck-Cox)

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

Sep 20, 202301:53:29
New Parallax Course! O.G. Rose - Look at the Birds in the Air - How we must unplan our lives.

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

` Parallax Substack—sign up here: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar

Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Parallax Membership: https://parallax-media.eu/membership

Parallax Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1IBCLy7a4KhNXsH5ejtCaM

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

Sep 20, 202301:32:44
The Parallax View #101: Higher Standards

The Parallax View #101: Higher Standards

Tom and Andrew ramble about philosopher kings, and their sex-practices

Sep 15, 202359:12
Love or Die #4: A Conversation Series with Marc Gafni - Sabbatai, Sevi, Sara, and the Messiah

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

Sep 11, 202301:09:47
The Parallax View #100: Sloterdijk´s Dream

The Parallax View #100: Sloterdijk´s Dream

Tom and Andrew ramble about Marshall McLuhan reading texts, Lacan´s Real and Peterson´s Ordeal

Sep 09, 202351:32
Sweeny vs Bard #56 - Back in Black
Sep 05, 202301:07:05
The Parallax View #99: Zombie ideas

The Parallax View #99: Zombie ideas

We are on a shooting range: We-Spaces, meaning crisis, postmodernism, metamodernism, time between worlds, sangha and spirituality.

Sep 02, 202301:14:07
Kulturwang #7: Thot-GPT

Kulturwang #7: Thot-GPT

About cringe Tik Tok Dances, and the female urge to expose themselves

Sep 02, 202354:46
Parallax Academy # 17 - David Cayley and Bonnitta Roy on Ivan Illich - Friendship in the network age

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.

Sep 01, 202302:00:26
Kulturwang #6 : The Bodycount Identity

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. 


Aug 26, 202301:10:47
The Parallax View #98: In Taylor we trust

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.

Aug 19, 202353:58
The Parallax View #97: Lacan and stuff
Aug 05, 202301:02:06
Bonnitta Roy - The Convivial Life - Full conversation

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

Aug 02, 202356:44
The Parallax View #96: Schmoppenheimer

The Parallax View #96: Schmoppenheimer

Tom and Andrew ramble about Oppenheimer, dreams and freak accidents

Jul 29, 202358:09
Prof. Dr. Dirk Baecker: On Media, Fake News and Niklas Luhmanns systems theory

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.

Jul 28, 202359:33
Kulturwang #3: Squirtology

Kulturwang #3: Squirtology

Masha and Tom ask the relevant questions

Jul 28, 202301:01:56
The Convivial Life - With Bonnitta Roy

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

Jul 24, 202323:07
Love or Die #3: A conversation series with Marc Gafni - AI and Hebrew Wisdom

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):
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A Return to Eros: the Radical Experience of Being Fully Alive (book):
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Jul 22, 202301:36:04
The Parallax View #95: Hokuspokus

The Parallax View #95: Hokuspokus

The boys review the Barbie movie and discover the laws of Magick

Jul 22, 202346:59
Parallax Talk: Deep Future #4: How to engage with the future (with Daniel Görtz and Michael Garfield)

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.

Jul 19, 202301:25:06
Kulturwang #1: Tranny Pageant Supremacy

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


Jul 18, 202352:25
The Parallax View #94: Topless in the Church

The Parallax View #94: Topless in the Church

Tom and Andrew ramble about the architecture of memes, archetypes, buildings, sex and innovation

Jul 08, 202301:07:28
The Parallax View #93: Paris is burning

The Parallax View #93: Paris is burning

There is no meaning crisis, there is no time between worlds.

Jul 02, 202354:28
Deep Future #3: The Future of A.I. (2nd edition/edited - with Alexander Bard, Thomas Hamelryck, Jim Rutt and Alex Ebert)

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.

Jun 20, 202301:08:21
Parallax Academy #16 - Transgender Narratives- Beyond The Culture War

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/

Jun 20, 202301:50:49