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Our thoughts on the queen´s passing

You learn the true reason why Peterson was so successful, why Rings of Power suck, and the reason why McEnroe became a cultural icon. With Andrew Sweeny and Tom Amarque

You can also listen to Samuel Barbers Adagio for Strings and mourn the collapse of the west instead.

A dialogos with Andrew Sweeny A conversation with Baker, musician, and philosopher Stephen Lewis about the next arc of civilisation after the supernova death of liberalism and social democracy.

NEW ONLINE-COURSE, starting September, 4th: NONDUALITY IN THE NETWORK AGE with LAYMAN PASCAL Get more info here!    https://parallax-media.eu/courses/nonduality-in-the-network-age Beyond Sex, Drugs & Psychoanalysis toward an integrative spiritual life for collaborative metamodern syntheists in the Age of Connection, Complexity & Catastrophe  This new course from PARALLAX ACA...

Time is broken, narcissism is the consequence. Everybody has a take, infinitely populating the space through hegelian laws. It´s the death of the (time-)commons. Fake tits, fakes horrors, fake experiences prevail against real ones. The image and the story counts. We live in divisive times, because time is divided, there are only bubbles of time we inhabit, we have lost the shared spirit. The dista...

Andrew gives an overview on his new projects, which leads into the emergence of the topic of post-egoic will, which in turn leads in into some discussion of some rules of the process, which leads in into some ruminations about everything post-postmodern, which leads to some other topics, ad infinitium, till we reach the point of no return with an exploration the archetype of the great and benevole...

A new series of video essays based on my summer reading of the 700-page spiritual classic, entitled Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism by the anonymous author whom everybody now knows was Valentine Tomberg. This is not a summary of Tomberg’s work per say, but rather my own idiosyncratic reading of the Tarot partly inspired by Tomberg’s work. This series aims to explore...

August 4th 2022 Alexander Bard , Alex Ebert , Cadell Last and Thomas Hamelryck join the Parallax View for a discussion extraordinaire, that oscillates between archetypology and peak-cringe, surface and deep meaning, elders and the initiation rites for the young.

The Meaning Apocalypse:  A conversation between Andrew Sweeny and Owen Cox Formerly the Maniphesto Media Academy and now part of the Parallax Academy—is an online platform dedicated to the study, practice, and contemplation of matters of soul and psyche. We are a network of friends, writers, teachers, and podcasters offering online study circles and public events. Links: Parallax - https://pa...

Daniel Schmachtenberger & Alexander Bard in dialogue, hosted by Tom Amarque Where are we in this 'time between worlds', and what are the possible and probably outcomes of our current trajectories. We are facing a crisis, while at the same time out institutions do not seem fit or able to solve these problems. At the same time, our myths and narratives don´t work anymore, the postmodern policies...

Tom and Andrew go through the core ideas from Tom´s first book ‘The Evolution of the Psyche’, which was a young mans attempt to map the psyche using systems-theory and constructivism

Political sociologist and leading metamodern theorist Brent Cooper joins Tom Amarque at the PPP in order to continue the conversation about political metamodernism and current progressivism.

July 12th 2022 Thaddeus Russell is the Founder of Unregistered Academy; host of the Unregistered podcast; and author of A Renegade History of the United States. He taught history and cultural studies at Occidental  College and has taught at Columbia University, Barnard College, Eugene  Lang College, and the New School for Social Research. Born and raised in  Berkeley, California, Ru...

July 9th 2022 R.I.P. Shinzo Abe, Tony Sirico (“Paulie”), James Caan, and the Woman on a train

July 3rd 2022 Andrew Sweeny and Tom Amarque work their way through symbolism and western hermeticism.

June 27th 2022 Political sociologist and leading metamodern theorist Brent Cooper joins Tom Amarque at the PPP in order to talk about metamodern implications of Roe vs Wade.

Both the end of the media academy season and the 55th Sweeny vs Bard. Alexander discusses different realms: the realm of one dogma, the realm of many dogmas in dialectic, and the realm of no dogma—in terms of sex, education and social organization. We also talked about sex difference, shamanism, and the difference between the tantric and the sutric realm. 2 hours of mad ideation and fun.

June 18th 2022 Political sociologist and leading metamodern theorist Brent Cooper joins Tom Amarque and the PPP  in order to talk about the politcal left and it´s relationship to Metamodernism.

Andrew Sweeny and Tom Amarque work their way through Top Gun, David Lynch, the sacred and the profane, Magick and Tantra and much more in order to entertain their 16000 listeners.

Andrew and Tom argue about the well-rounded personality, having a contradiction free worldview, Heidegger and Schopenhauer, being in the world, gender polarities in regard of violence and instances when you can´t trust a man.

Cadell Last's THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA COURSE STARTS JULY 14TH 2022 Sing up here:  https://www.philosophyportal.online/ Cadell introduces the explosive text known as Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Frederic Nietzche.       About Cadell:   "I am a philosopher interested in interpreting and communicating the greatest philosophical works with the aim of bringing these...

Layman Pascal is an author and host of the Podcast THE INTEGRAL STAGE. He is also a public speaker, nondual theologian and yoga & meditation teacher, apocalyptarian—and so many other things.     We brought Layman to the Parallax Media Academy to talk about Tantra—to get his view of why tantra is necessary and essential in the 21st Century and what kind of ground needs to be laid...

May 21th 2022 Andrew is back, and We talk about the well-rounded personality, art, the gap between self and persona, line of sexual development, what is beauty, and of course anal probes.

Owen Cox from the “ Technosocial Podcast ” joins the show to talk about men´s work and the trials and tribulations of young men.