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John Vervaeke and Thomas Jockin join Andrew Sweeny at Parallax for a conversation on beauty, Plato, Aristotle, the sacred, and the meaning crisis. What if the meaning crisis is also a crisis of beauty — and what if beauty is not merely something we like, but something that asks us to change our lives? John Vervaeke: https://johnvervaeke.com/ Thomas Jockin: https://thomasjockin.com/ Thomas’s Parall...

In this conversation, Andrew Sweeny sits down with author, scholar, and Cult of Personality host Greg Kaminsky to discuss his recent books The Silent Call of the Heart, Peregrine: Crossing Spiritual Boundaries to Find a New Home, and Entangled in Sunlight. The discussion explores Greg's journey from occult scholar and podcaster to committed spiritual practitioner, examining the limits of knowl...

What is prophecy—and why does it matter today? In this conversation, Andrew Sweeny and Dr. Marc Gafni explore the relationship between wound and wonder, love and time, eros and ethics, and the radical idea that a prophet is someone who transforms pain into vision. This dialogue introduces Marc's upcoming Parallax course:**The Words of the Prophets: The Transfiguration of Our Unique Wound**📅 J...

Thomas Jockin’s four-part course, Beauty Changes Your Life: Plato, Aristotle, and the Beautiful, begins Monday, July 6, 2026, with live sessions on July 6, 13, 20, and 27. The course explores beauty as memory, virtue, desire, form, and philosophical inquiry through readings of Plato and Aristotle. More information here: Beauty Changes Your Life — Thomas Jockin:https://www.parallax-media.com/course...

In this first conversation in a new series on enlightenment, mysticism, and civilization, Andrew Sweeny and Alexander Bard explore the relationship between enlightenment, ancient spirituality, and digital culture. The discussion moves through Peter Kingsley, Jung, Gurdjieff, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Göbekli Tepe, mountain civilizations versus river civilizations, shamanism, altered states, René G...

DescriptionA deep dive into a strange and luminous literary encounter: Henry Miller on Arthur Rimbaud. In this conversation, we explore Miller’s short but intense meditation on Rimbaud—the teenage visionary who burned through language, identity, and the limits of experience itself. A confrontation with genius, madness, exile, and the cost of mystical vision. Links🔗 Owen Cox — Dark Renaissancehttp...

A Parallax conversation on The Meaning of America, celebrating Max Borders’ upcoming course and exploring America as ideal, shadow, empire, and future. With Andrew Sweeny, Max Borders, and Owen Cox, this discussion moves through revolution, liberty, collectivism, Europe, myth, and the strange paradox of America as both promise and danger. Join Max Borders’ course, The Meaning of America, on April...

Andrew and Tom pay their respect.

A Parallax conversation on The Meaning of America, celebrating Max Borders’ upcoming course and exploring America as ideal, shadow, empire, and future. With Andrew Sweeny, Max Borders, and Owen Cox, this discussion moves through revolution, liberty, collectivism, Europe, myth, and the strange paradox of America as both promise and danger. Join Max Borders’ course, The Meaning of America, on April...

Learn more about the course and register here:https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/integral-tarotAndrew Sweeny speaks with Tarot teacher Marianne Costa about the upcoming Integral Tarot course at Parallax. This is the third Tarot course Marianne Costa has offered with Parallax. In this conversation, she introduces the structure and ideas behind the new course, which explores the Tarot de Marseil...

Raven Connolly and Owen Cox join the Parallax View to talk about the issues of Europe and it´s underlying themes

Iain McGilchrist, Marc Gafni & Zak Stein | The Return of Value and the Sacred | Part 2Zak Stein moderates an intense and wide-ranging conversation between Dr. Iain McGilchrist and Dr. Marc Gafni. The dialogue spans the sacred nature of story, the loss of value and eros, the nature of evil, and the deep structures shaping culture today. In Part 2, the conversation turns explicitly toward the qu...

Death and Rebirth of EuropeA recorded conversation between members of Parallax and Dark Renaissance Productions discussing the idea of Europe’s decline and the possibility of transformation. The conversation also relates to a longer-term collaborative project planned for Paris in 2026.Timestamps00:00 – Introduction and context02:10 – Where the idea “death and rebirth of Europe” comes from06:45 – E...

January 14th 2026 Tom and Andrew discuss Camille Paglia´ Sexual Personae

DescriptionDr. Gafni is interviewed by Andrew Sweeny. The central question: How to go beyond a mere tragic view of life? Invitationhttps://www.parallax-media.com/courses/pretragic-tragic-and-posttragicThe course includes three weekly recorded lectures with Q&A and three weekly Digital Campfire sessions, where practices and inquiries are introduced and the material is reflected on in community....

DescriptionIn this talk, Dr. Marc Gafni introduces a central framework of his teaching: pre-tragic, tragic, and post-tragic as recurring stations of human experience. These are not developmental stages or psychological categories, but existential positions we move through repeatedly in love, desire, power, intimacy, creativity, meaning, and our relationship to God. Pre-tragic clarity gives way to...

Struggling to make your stories truly land? Years of writing taught us that sentences have a job, stories have an inner logic, and vision organizes a life—not just a project. This course condenses that transformation into three live modules with hands-on practice.📅 Start Date:Saturday, Jan 17, 2026⏰ Time: 8:00 PM CET | 2:00 PM EST | 11:00 AM PST💻 Format: 3 Zoom Classes + 3 Practice Sessions💶 P...

December 15th 2025 Andrew Sweeny takes a look into the future

Join author Marianne Costa for a deep dive into the Minor Arcana of the Tarot de Marseille.🔥 COURSE: Cracking the Code of the Minor ArcanaLink: https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/cracking-the-code-of-the-minor-arcana-part-1Connect:Marianne Costa: https://mariannecosta.com/Parallax Courses and Events: https://www.parallax-media.com/courses-and-eventsMarianne Costa shares her unique, practical...

Andrew Sweeny and Tom Amarque on Europa, feminism, and Tom´s new novel, The Infinite Now. Get all episodes of "The Parallax View" here: https://www.parallax-media.com/overviewTom Amarque´s book "The Infinite Now": https://www.parallax-media.com/books/theinfinitenowAcademy: https://www.parallax-media.com/courses-and-eventsPublishing: https://www.parallax-media.com/parallax-books...

In this profound dialogue, Dr. Marc Gafni and Andrew Sweeny introduce Part Two of the Unique Wound and Unique Self series:“Identifying Your Unique Wound of Desire: From Wounds of Desire to Wounds of Love.”The course begins November 16.Enroll here: 👉 https://www.parallax-media.com/course...Dr. Gafni reveals the deep connection between touch and wounding—the Hebrew word nega means both—and shows ho...

💥 The Offence of Christ: A SymposiumAndrew Sweeny (host) with, Jordan Hall, Luke Behncke, Jordan Hall, and Daniel L. Garner (O.G. Rose) on the provocative question: "Why the world hates Christianity."This is an intense dive into the fundamental, energetic friction between the Christian message and the human ego. We move past culture wars to explore the core demands of transformation.🕊️...

This talk is about money and capitalism, and it´s relationshiop to spirituality. Upcoming course: https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/phaenomenologyofwillAcademy: https://www.parallax-media.com/courses-and-eventsPublishing: https://www.parallax-media.com/parallax-booksSubstack: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Network: https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/ND8NVO1oMB3RjEyi?utm_sourc...

A Conversation with Luke BehnckeGurdjieff spoke of hidden currents—of electricity, attention, and energy—long before our world was woven in wires and screens. In this dialogue, Luke Behncke explores how Gurdjieff’s uncanny vision can guide us to remain awake amidst the digital spell, and how the Internet itself may be seen as a field of forces demanding new forms of consciousness.👉Explore our lib...

With Tom Amarque www.parallax-media.com This talk is ostensibly about the culture war that is, to agreater or lesser extent, occupying all our minds right now. But I don’t wantto get lost in the political trenches. Instead, I’d like to shift thehorizontal axis to a vertical one and see what lies underneath. We can’t talk about the culture war without talking aboutfeminism, and we can’t talk about...