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A Parallax Media Academy Dialogue hosted by Owen Cox and Andrew Sweeny

A Parallax Media Academy presentation

April 30th 2022 Eros & Libido, Freund vs Jung, Schopenhauer and Amber.

Marc Gafni is a Rabbi, an integral philosopher, and—and by his own description—an outrageous lover, as any good philosopher should be.  I spoke to him about his book ‘a return to eros’ and the need for eros in spirituality, politics, and life.   In this conversation, I will query him about ‘the murder of eros’, based on the final chapter in his book—and ask him how spirituality and...

April 23th 2022 A podcast that can talk about god and stuff can also talk about the deranged life of some celebrities. We are hunting high and low, folks

The first Sweeny vs Bard without a guest in a while.  In this episode, Alexander describes the war in Ukraine as a clash of paradigms rather than civilization.  He says that it’s a fight between David and Goliath, but also liberal democracy vs Putin’s attempt at Feudalism in the digital age.  We talk about Duganism, technology, history, and religion in the face of the war.  And...

REBUILDING SPIRITUALITY FOR A NEW A NEW WORLD  Sign up here:  https://parallax-media.eu/events/rebuilding-spirituality  This special introduction to “Rebuilding Spirituality” serves as the inaugural gateway to all future PARALLAX ACADEMY courses in this important emerging domain. Starting from his own unique philosophical and practical approaches, Layman Pascal guides us through a d...

April 16th 2022 Andrew Sweeny and Tom Amarque on death cults and unbound libidinal energies.

https://parallax-media.eu/the-parallax-view     April 9th 2022 - A Sloterdijkean view on celebrity, where we come from, and where it will go.

April 2nd Dugin-Chaos-Ukraine-The Slap-Magick ... this one is for the fans

Andrew Sweeny reads his new essay ‘Special Operations’ and The Kali Yuga - Meditations on the War in Ukraine. Available at www.parallax-media.eu.

Campbell Dixon joins for a trio infernal about sexual politics, sexual initiation, the virtues and pitfalls of monogamy and polyamory, pornofication vs true eroticism ... it´s about sex, guys.

Buckminster Fuller once said, ”You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” If the current system is „Game A“, how do new organizational models for a "Game B“ world look like? What insights can we glean from experiments in the space of self-management? How would a truly integral, metamodern, holistic form...

Saturday 12th of march. A  Parallax View on Sex, War & Aggression. And the connection between Batman and the Ukraine conflict.

A Parallax View on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, the information war, a tasteless joke, Game A vs Game B reactions, the power of the Id, and an asymmetrical solution.

February, 26th In this weeks episode: Layman Pascal as the 'Liminal Web´s' MVP, the protestant dogma of averting your eyes when it´s right in front of you, Gurdjieff´s mindtricks & the art of dying, Ukraine & accepting the unacceptable, and of course spaceships.

February, 20th In which Andrew wants to get cancelled, invents "spiritual wokeism", talks about the Intellectual Deep Web, and gets corrected by Aleister Crowley.

Parallax Spiritual Book Club Presents a dialogue with Marc Gafni   Dr. Marc Gafni’s Biography: https://www.marcgafni.com/dr-marc-gafni-biographyParallax Spiritual Book Club: The Parallax spiritual book club is every Sunday 8pm CET on Zoom: https://parallax-media.eu/bookclub/parallax-spiritual-book-club

February, 12th A call for the crazy ones - the artists & magickians - You can quote them, disagree with them,  glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them  because they change things

Jim Rutt was Former Chairman Santa Fe Institute, is Co-initiator of the GameB community, and host of the popular podcast the Jim Rutt Show We are were talking about complexity, catastrophes, competition in relationship to Game A and Game B. How to deal with complex systems? How efficacious are we actually? How to deal with inevitable catastrophes? And how to deal with our inbuild drive to compete?

February, 5th Most valuable Player AND most valuable tribe. Get the news here

This one has a bend to it. Musings on Old hags, prophecy, and metamodernism

Prof. Timotheus Vermeulen, Dr. Robin van der Acker and Dr. Alison Gibbons wrote on the cultural condition known as Metamodernism. We are talking about the attributes and characteristics of Metamodernism, Covid and new concepts of time, the problems of the media-landscape, devices of literature and commonalities with other post-postmodern theories.

Parallax Spiritual Book Club Presents a dialogue with Layman Pascal and Andrew Sweeny on Crazy Wisdom.     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—and so many other things.     The Parallax spiritual book club is every Sunday 8pm CET on Zoom: SIGN UP H...

January, 22th There is only one viable solution to the meaning crisis, to the pickle we are in, and to the multitude of informational, environmental, political, economical problems. Only one.