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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 based in Copenhagen. His aca...

January, 14th A talk about Rene Girard, scapegoeting Fauci and Djokovic, and children as sacrifical victims

A talk about the psychosis-model of clinical psychiatrist Matthias Desmet. Or is the Covid-Craze fundamentally a religious phenomenon?

January 1st; Ep. 26 A reading of Andrews piece Tantra, Trungpa, and Booze

December 25th; Ep. 25 Andrew and Tom do a deep dive on the new Matrix 4 flick

December 18th; Ep. 24 Cadell Last joins the discussion. 

Mit  ihrem Artikel "A Poetic Realist" und ihren Bildern hat die Dänin Lone  Morch uns in der ersten Archronon-Ausgabe eindrückliche innere und  äussere Landschaften erschlossen.   Was bedeutet Planetarisches Bewusstsein ausgedrückt in Kunst, Kulturentwicklung und in einer gelebten Tiefenökologie? Wie erleben wir  Übergänge, Mutationen und Rites of Passages in Zeiten d...

Parallax-Interview with Aaron Cheak about Origin, Being free of time,  yin and yang forms will, and the difference between Jean Gebsers and Ken Wilbers philosophy. Aaron Cheak, PhD, is a scholar of comparative religion, philosophy, and esotericism. Former president of the International Jean Gebser Society (2013–2015),

with Alexander Bard, Cadell Last, Thomas Hamelryck, and Andrew Sweeny A Parallax Roundtable about philosophy, religion and metaphysics east and west with Alexander Bard, Cadell Last, Thomas Hamelryck and Andrew Sweeny.

Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. In this interview Sophie and Tom Amarque are talking about the connections between myths, archetyps, fungi, gender roles and consciousness. 

November 27th; Ep. 23:  Daniel Fraga and Alexander Bard join the discussion. Enlightenment is dead. Long live the will to transcendence.

David Chaim Smith was born in 1964 in Queens, New York. His early career was as a visual artist throughout the 1980s. In 1990 he began an immersion into the root sources of Alchemy and the Hermetic and Hebrew traditions of the Kabbalah. In 1996 he abandoned visual art for a total dedication to spiritual practice, from which came a unique blend of practical mysticism and creative innovation. This b...

November 20th; Ep. 22 A king has his reign. And then he dies. It´s inevitable. But maybe he gets to know himself.

November 13th; Ep. 21 Is it about the path of the clit, the path to the clit, the pathology of the clit, or the pathology of the one seeking the clit. Maybe all of it? You never know.

November 6th; Ep. 20 About the legitimacy of the ratiopaths and the final question: Who´s the final boss? (Hint: It´s not you!)

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 two books: Global Brain Singularity and Sex, Mascu...

October 31th; Ep. 19 Some things are meant to happen, other´s don´t. Don´t you worry.

Parallax-Interview with Zak Stein about the information-war and the Consillience Project . Zach Stein : Studied philosophy and religion at Hampshire College, and then educational neuroscience, human development, and the philosophy of education at Harvard University. He wrote two books, “Social Justice and Educational Measurement” and “Education in a Time Between Worlds”, and is now involved with t...

Parallax-Interview with Tomas Björkman Tomas Bjorkman is a is a Swedish financier, social entrepreneur and author of The Market Myth and other books.  He sits down with Parallax to talk about the meta-crisis we are facing today, cryptocurrency, the recent Emerge-gathering he organized in Berlin as well as the problems and structures of the economy, capitalism and the market.

We are talking about the Squid Game, Ivan Illich, Emerge, The Velvet Underground, shitty memory and sexy rituals

David Cayley is a broadcaster and author and perhaps the ‘godfather of podcasting’. He is best know known for documenting the philosophy of great thinkers of the 20th century, including Ivan Illich , Northrop Frye , George Grant , and Rene Girard .  He has recently written a fantastic biography of Ivan Illich (Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey), which also documents his own adventure with...

September 15th; Ep. 17 We are talikng about the new DUNE movie, it´s deep mythology, Lynch´s twisted mind, Jung vs Freud, Indra´s fractal net, and the spice, that elevates life out up the mud and into the sacred.

Layman Pascal is, amongst other things, an author and host of the Podcast THE INTEGRAL STAGE. In this conversation we are talking about the post-postmodern ecosystem, the role of integral philosphy, cultural source-codes, Magick, Robert Anton Wilson and Tim Leary, and the resaon why we could use stage-theory although we know it could not be true.

The role & function of comedy in the digital - and maybe post-postmodern age. Dedicated to Norm Macdonald

Andrew Sweeny and Tom Amarque try to get into groove about Ivan Illich.