Sweeny vs Bard

Here we include Thomas Hamelryck, scientist and machine learning expert, and a practitioner of Buddhist Tantra. Thomas is part of a discussion group called the Intellectual deep web.  How do we understand Tantra in a western context and how does tantra differ from Sutra. NEW PODCAST VERSION:  https://anchor.fm/andrew-sweeny  Support this channel and my projects by subscribing or hel...

Some topics covered in this wide ranging lateral conversation:   Alexander's experience with Covid 19, Pathos and Mythos, The Symbolic and the imaginary, Jaques Lacan and Rene Girard, Moses and monotheism The split phallus, When men fuck up: Peter Pan and Caligula, Dialectics of the axial age, Monism and Emergence Vectors, Buddhism and Zoroastrianism , Judaism and the religion of the law, Mim...

Some topics covered in this wide ranging lateral conversation:   Jordan Peterson; A plural sensocracy; Process and Event; Phallus and Matrix; Men and Purpose; Dictatorship; Tonality and etiquette; Cancel culture Heretics; Sex, Art, and Violence; The need of the trickster; Passive agressive lynch mob—and so much more …   And so much more  DONATE ON PAYPAL Patreon Medium Rebel Wi...

Some topics covered in this wide ranging lateral conversation:   HIV vs Coronavirus, The eternal recurrence, Nietzsche and Deleuze, Nomadology vs Eventology, Circular vs Linear Time, Greek and Roman Nomadology vs Persian and Jewish Eventology, Mythos and Logos (science and story), Men and women vulnerability to C-19, Eventology vs Exedology, The exodus onto the internet, Lacan and the Real, H...

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Some topics covered in this wide ranging conversation: John Vervaeke appreciation and critique; What is religion? Horizontal and Vertical Religion; The Barred Absolute; Judaism and Zoroastrianism; Two rivers; The Divided Phallus; Syntheism; The Sun God and The Rain God; Paradigm and Emergence Theory; Purpose vs Belonging; Sex, Art, and Violence; Peter Thiel and Strauss DONATE ON PAYPAL Patreon Med...

Some topics covered in this wide ranging conversation: Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud 3 utopias and 4 Stages of life The barred absolute Judaism and Zorastrianism Matriarchal, patriarchal, and priestly religion The sacred room Privacy and the superego India and China Hegel Elitism and Communism The shamanoid personality Drugs and and Religion The Tower of God Surfing DONATE ON PAYPAL Patreon Medium Re...

Some topics covered in this wide ranging conversation: John Vervaeke's and The Meaning Crisis; Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud; Aristotle and Causality; The Will to Transcendence ; The Silk Route; The 4 stages of life; The 3 Utopias; The death of God (Nietzsche) and the Death of the Individual (Foucault); A savage critique of Christianity; Greta Gunberg Pedophelia; Oversexed American Culture DONATE ON...

Some topics covered in this wide ranging conversation: John Vervaeke;; Joker; 4 Human drives; Transrationalism; Nomadology; Ecotopianism;  Cosmopolitanism;  Experimentalism; Communism  Emergence; The trickster DONATE ON PAYPAL Patreon Medium Rebel Wisdom Articles Twitter Facebook Links to books by Alexander Bard  with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Syntheism – Crea...

Some topics covered in this wide ranging conversation: The film Joker American; Individualism; Buddhism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism; The need for religion; Monism; Patriarchy and Matriarchy; Imploitation vs Exploitation; The Garden of Babel; The need for a Heroic principle Ecotopia DONATE ON PAYPAL Patreon Medium Rebel Wisdom Articles Twitter Facebook Links to books by Alexander Bard  with Jan Sö...

Some topics covered in this wide ranging conversation: When little boys dream about being Gods; A defense of Utopianism; Masculine Energy; Imploitation vs Exploitation; The Cosmopole; Attentionalism Moses and Aaron; Engineering and the Tower of Babel; Fear of Sexuality; Jung and Freud; Emergence and Eventology; And so much more … DONATE Patreon Medium Rebel Wisdom Articles Twitter Facebook Links t...

Some topics covered in this wide ranging conversation:   Why Jordan Peterson is a Zoroastrian without knowing it; John Vervaeke’s Buddhism; Marx vs Rousseau; The scapegoat, The false phallus and the real phallus; The importance of young men; Anglo Saxon discourse; The messiah The overman and the proletariat; The need for heroic discourse DONATE Patreon Medium Rebel Wisdom Articles Twitter Fac...

A new season of Sweeny vs Bard!  Get ready to have your mind blown! Some topics covered in this wide ranging conversation:  Sufism Europe; Nationalism, and Cosmopolitanism; Empires; Talking to the alt right; tantric outcasts   Links: DONATE Patreon Medium Rebel Wisdom Articles Twitter Facebook Links to books by Alexander Bard  with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Sy...

A new season of Sweeny vs Bard!  Get ready to have your mind blown!  Some topics covered in this wide ranging conversation: Silk Route: the golden age of spirituality; The will to Intelligence; Machine, biological and symbiotic intelligence; The messianic machine; How to defeat the culture war; Blockchain and brutal honesty; Membrains; Deep History; People being naked togeather ... and s...

Some topics covered in this wide ranging conversation:  Dualism vs Monism, Hyperspace and Hypertime, Entropy and Sentropy , The infinite demand, Abjectification and the Fake Phallus, Priests and Machines, Real Imaginary and Symbolic power Politics, Irony Transparency, 3 kinds of Nihilism and Dead Religion, Zoroastrian Ethics, Freedom From God ... and more!   Links to books by Alexander B...

We begin this conversation talking about how the pitfalls of environmentalism and the need for an ecotopia.  Then the conversation goes off into quantum space, with an exploration of physics, zoroastrianism, buddhism and tribal mapping.   Watch till the end to get the 'homework'.     Links to books by Alexander Bard  with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Sy...

In this conversation we look at the Zizkek Peterson debate, castigate the Extinction rebellion, discuss monism and dualism and so much more.  Links to books by Alexander Bard  with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Syntheism – Creating God in the Internet Age (2014) Digital Libido - Sex, power and violence in the network society Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: Patreon Medium Rebe...

Part of what we are up to, says Alexander Bard, is to retake words that can no longer be spoken.  First we retake God, then we retake Religion, and then .... communism?  In the eve of the upcoming debate between Slavoj Žižek and Jordan Peterson Bard (Capitalism vs Marxism) Bard explains to me why a utopian vision is necessary for the future age which he thinks will have to communistic or...

In this final episode of the Tantra series, Bard talks about the need for a new theology or grand narrative in the face of the internet Tsunami.    Links to books by Alexander Bard  with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Syntheism – Creating God in the Internet Age (2014) Digital Libido - Sex, power and violence in the network society Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: Patreon...

Some notes on topics covered: a facebook supernova, credibility vs marketing, a culture of mutual admiration, the beauty of asymmetry, dialectics of theism and non-theism, ‘God is the skulls of all the dead shamans’, science the story you tell in the morning, mythology n the evening, 'never to strive for perfection,' the terrible ideas of infinity, the exodus, the ultimate father and the ultimate...

This is a wide ranging discussion about the need for mercy and eccentricity in the age of social media witch hunts.  We talk about how ugly perfection is in politics, art, and all aspects of life—how asymmetry, human failure, and wildness are necessary in the path towards human wisdom.  We don't need role models, according to Bard, but people who challenge us.   Links to books...

This episode is a short but epic rant against the unattractiveness of social justice warriors and victimology by Alexander Bard and an plea for adultification and being 'awake' instead of woke. It is part 2 in our discussion of Tantra.   Links to books by Alexander Bard  with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Syntheism – Creating God in the Internet Age (2014) Digital Libido -...

This episode covers tantra which is a very elastic term from the east meaning—more or less— certain kinds spiritual practices that originated in India. We also discuss neo-tantra which was Osho's term for sexual/somatic exercises to liberate the sexually repressed, and we talk about why the Osho cult got so corrupt. Bard says that real Tantra is more about the 'adultification' of the world than in...

As a conclusion we return to our discussion on the necessity of the Shamanic caste, the third sex, and a new theology.     Links to books by Alexander Bard  with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Syntheism – Creating God in the Internet Age (2014) Digital Libido - Sex, power and violence in the network society Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: Patreon Medium Rebel Wisdom Artic...

This episode covers the abortion, borders and immigration, ethics based on actuality, and building building the tower of babel or the next Grand Narrative.      Links to books by Alexander Bard  with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Syntheism – Creating God in the Internet Age (2014) Digital Libido - Sex, power and violence in the network society Writing etc by Andre...