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Andrew Sweeny and Tom Amarque become Guerilla-Ontologists, and ask, if cognitive developement and stages theories are real or not. And their conclusion: All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.

Maniphesto Media Academy (aka MMA) is a virtual one-room school-house—an alternative learning platform—for those who want to take an intellectual and spiritual deep dive.  It is a weekly study group and lecture series, where we try to make sense of the present apocalyptic times.  At MMA we will celebrate creative content, think critically about the existing paradigm, and create a lively...

Jeremy Johnson joins the Parallax View to talk about political commentator and talk show host Michael Brooks, the Dirtbag left &  Chapo Trap House, the Jacobin and other progressiv outlets that signify a more differentiated discourse and performance of the american left. Fascinating stuf, do it up!

Peter Merry is, among other things, a social innovator, public speaker, author and consultant. We talked about some of his ideas, particularly about volution, volition, evolutionary leadership, Spiral Dynamics, a bit of occult psychology and free will. Great stuff, do it up! 

Alex Ebert at the Stoa : Strange Attractor Roundtable on The Philosophy of Cool  DONATE ON PAYPAL Patreon Parallax Facebook Medium Intro music: Beautiful Machines, by Andrew Sweeny

After listening to Alex Ebert’s fantastic presentation ‘Dead Cool’ at the Stoa we thought we would invite Alex, who like Alexander Bard, is a pop star turned philosopher for a discussion on ‘The Philosophy of Cool’.  What is cool in the age of attentionalism?  What is fake cool and what is real cool? How is cool related to Réne Girard’s theories of mimetic desire.  Originally part o...

Jonathan answers some of my questions about The traditional schools, Jordan Peterson and God, makes a critique of modern art, spiritual materialism, and woke; he talks about the marginalia of medieval art, the meaning of Icons, Covid, the state of the world, and the city of God, and so much more.  A man of great clarity and ability to articulate the hidden meaning of things. Here is his bio:...

Dr. Chris Ryan is a bestselling book-author and podcaster. He wrote 'Sex at Dawn' and 'Civilized to Death', and is host of the 'Tangentially Speaking'-Podcast. I had the distict pleasure to talk with him about our love of Spain, the pitfalls of civilization, civilization as a self-replicating superorganism, living the Nomad-life, developmental psychology and the developmental age of us humans toda...

WITH STEVE MCINTOSH, DANIEL GÖRTZ, JOHN BUNZL, MAX BORDERS AND THADDEUS RUSSELL Since the system of politics in its modern and postmodern iteration is obviously not fit to deal with the manifold problems (meta-crisis), how could a ‘post-postmodern’ approach to politics look like? What new narrative is needed to legitimize a new (metamodern/post-postmodern/post-progressive) approach to politics? GU...

WITH ZAK STEIN, JEREMY JOHNSON, DANIEL GÖRTZ, RAOUL ESHELMAN & ALEXANDER BARD In the last couple of years, we have witnessed the emergence of different meta-models, theories, and future visions which try to go beyond the worldview of postmodernism: a strange attractor that seems to run on new and exciting algorithms. But what—if anything—do all of these models and movements have in common? Is...

Greg Kaminski is a man of gravity, learning, and dedication. In our wonderful two hour conversation, the creator of the podcast ‘Occult of Personality’ and author of the new book ‘Pronaos: Reflections on the Preliminary Practices of Buddhist Tantra from a Western Perspective’, shared something fantastic:  that a particular series of preliminary practices in Buddhist Tantra known as ngondro is...

J.P. is a philosopher and editor at Johnathan Pageau's 'The symbolic world':  He is also part of John Vervaeke's 'Voices with Vervaeke’ series and has contributed to articles Maniphesto Men’s movement. https://thesymbolicworld.com/contributors/ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh8TPRarb1FpwP7FSaUILC9 Part 2 in an expansive and deep conversation about Christian and Buddhist sym...

Tammy Peterson grew up in the Canadian prairies (Fairview, Alberta) on a plateau she called ‘the top of the world’; she now lives in Toronto, Canada.  She is a mother of two, a massage therapist, an artist, and the wife of the famous author and controversial professor Jordan Peterson.  She is also a great storyteller with a subtle sense of humor, and is a profoundly wise person, I discov...

Catching up with Zak Stein and exploring how his recent work—especially on education—resonates with John’s.  A too short but very sweet conversation between these two amazing and life generating thinkers.  Essential spiritual and intellectual guides for our tragic and confused times. John Vervaeke is a professor at the University of Toronto and the creator of the popular online YouTube S...

Here is the 7th of our ‘reinventio’ series—the latin word which means to both invent and discover.  An amazing conversation where we go very deep on the agony of eros and the potential of agape. John Vervaeke is a professor at the University of Toronto and the creator of the popular online YouTube Series ‘Awakening from The Meaning Crisis’, which is a rich feast of cognitive science, philosop...

In which I ramble about the fallacies of the transgender movement, Hilaria Baldwin and my own hornyness which makes me blind to certain realities.

In which I ramble about corona policies, the fear of scientists, the nature of media-coverage and psycho-pathologies of ze Germanz.

Co-Creating Global Governance: A roundtable with Tomas Björkman and John Bunzl How do we think and act globally AND locally? What are the alternatives to destructive catpitalism? What does the evolution of consciousness have to do with it? Are we on a ‘crtitical and better path’ towards the future? Tomas Björkman (b. 1958) is Swedish; he has a master’s degree in physics and studied macroeconomics...

This is the second in a three part series of conversations based on The book Sex, Masculinity and God co-written by Cadell Last. 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 Univers...

Sophie-Charlotte Alice Adler, MSc, is a psychologist, hypnotherapist, researcher and author. She has specialized in working with altered states of consciousness since 2017. Recently her book on psilocybin and its potential for modern psychotherapy in research and practice was published by Carl-Auer. https://www.carl-auer.de/veranderte-bewusstseinszustande... Ketamine (off-label use) is currently t...

Stephen Hicks is a Professor for Philosophy and author of the very good book ' Explaining Postmodernism '. Logically, we talk a lot about the history, aspects, traits and problems of postmodernism.

We did try to make sense of the cultural polarisation of 2018: What are the chances, stressors and problems of our time? What does integration of left and right values mean? Beyond an integral observer stance: What could an integral political party look like? Jordan Peterson, Jonathan Haidt and the Intellectual Dark Web: What is their evolutionary function?

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson is Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto and author of Maps of Meaning : The Achitecture of Belief. He entered the public sphere when he decided to take a stand against PC-Culture, Identity Politics and the pathologies of postmodernism. In this podcast we are talking about a wide array of topics, all pertaining to the end of postmodernism.

In this episode I had the distinct pleasure to talk to the godfather und founder of Spiral Dynamics, Dr. Don Beck. We talked a bit about his upcoming new book 'Spiral Dynamics in Action' about the current state of affairs of our culture, Trump, the Ken Wilber controversy, and more.

David C. Korten is a luminary in the field of economics, a member of the Club of Rome, an author of the order and essentially meets all the criteria for being considered 'wise'. I am quite happy that he took the time to talk to me about his new book, about cosmologies and stories, and about our possible futures.