Parallax
287 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 9 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingshttps://www.parallax-media.eu/
Heterodox magazine for philosophy, spirituality and psychology
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The Parallax View #124: Rejoice the Abyss
March 28, 2024 13:24 - 1 hour - 83.5 MBTom and Andrew ramble about Andrew Huberman, discomfort, Pessoa´s Hate of Travel, and failed attempts deal with Christianity --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
The Parallax View #123: Is war natural?
March 21, 2024 11:54 - 1 hour - 85.3 MBTom and Andrew ramble about war, women & worlds. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Love or Die #10: A Conversation Series with Marc Gafni - The Tree of Life - Part 5 - Hod and Nezach
March 11, 2024 20:16 - 1 hour - 48.2 MBAndrew questions Marc about the famous Tree of Life and the ten Sephirot in Hebrew Kabbalah. An introduction and a radical interpretation. How can we rewrite the source code of the present epoch and create a new story? The stakes are high. It’s Love or Die! Parallax Mighty Networks: https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/RnBBvEYInToDBG2P?utm_source=manual Parallax Academy: https://www.parallax-media.com/2024-courses-and-events Membership and Donation: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax...
Jordan Hall - Journey to Christianity
February 16, 2024 14:21 - 1 hour - 70.5 MBJordan Hall - Journey to Christianity A discussion about Jordan's recent conversion to Christianity, his wrestling with religion, and his understanding of deeper concepts like the trinity, prayer, and sin. An extremely deep and heartful conversation. Jordan Hall is a visionary philosopher celebrated for his groundbreaking insights into the realms of collective intelligence, sense-making, and the intricate tapestry of modern civilization. With a keen intellect and a penchant for unraveling...
Sweeny vs Bard #59 - With Max Borders - Who are the grey robes?
February 15, 2024 08:57 - 2 hours - 84.3 MBA deep conversation about archetypes, the need for art and religion, and a Gurdieffian 4th way in the land of technological utopia and dystopia. And a plug for Max's upcoming course on Parallax, which will explore these issues. THE GREY ROBES - INITIATION INTO A GLOBAL DIGITAL PRIESTHOOD WITH MAX BORDERS: starts March 10th: https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/max-borders-1 Links: Parallax Mighty Networks: https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/RnBBvEYInToDBG2P?utm_source=manua...
Gurdjieff's The Hard Way Part 2 with Luke Bhencke - Towards a Conscious Relationship
February 13, 2024 10:47 - 56 minutes - 42.5 MBA conversation about an exciting new experimental course at Parallax Academy: https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/the-hard-way-with-luke-behncke-2 Raised in rural and outback Australia, Luke’s background in biomedical science and physical education, with diverse interests in philosophy, religion, and art - ultimately drew him to Gurdjieff’s system, where he has been a practitioner working with groups and individuals from around the world since 2000. Explorations related to Gurdjieff’s F...
Love or Die #9: A conversation series with Marc Gafni
February 10, 2024 07:59 - 1 hour - 49.4 MBHow can we rewrite the source code of the present epoch and create a new story? The stakes are high. It’s Love or Die! Andrew questions Marc about the famous Tree of Life and the ten Sephirot in Hebrew Kabbalah. An introduction and a radical interpretation. And a discussion on 6th Sepirot: Tiferet Parallax Mighty Networks: https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/RnBBvEYInToDBG2P?utm_source=manual Parallax Academy: https://www.parallax-media.com/2024-courses-and-events Website Dr. Marc...
Max Borders - The Grey Robes - INITIATION INTO A GLOBAL DIGITAL PRIESTHOOD
January 27, 2024 11:10 - 1 hour - 74.5 MBMax and Andrew Sweeny discuss Max's ambitious course and initiation into Mystery, Mission, Morality, Means and Meaning for those Heterodox thinkers wanting to go beyond red and blue, black and white. Max Borders is the author of The Social Singularity (2018) and The Decentralist (2021). His latest book is called Underthrow (2023). Currently, he is working on two major projects: a cosmopolitan constitution designed to open the era of open-source law, and a global fraternal society dedicated ...
Love or Die #8: A Conversation Series with Marc Gafni - The Tree of Life - Part 3
January 13, 2024 15:20 - 1 hour - 47.1 MBJoin The Love or Die page on our Parallax Mighty Networks: https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/tQLqSh5i-wE2XHm6?utm_source=manual Andrew questions Marc about the famous Tree of Life and the ten Sephirot in Hebrew Kabbalah. An introduction and a radical interpretation. And a discussion on the 4th and 5th Sepirot: Chesed and Gevurah Dr. Marc Gafni is a visionary thinker, social activist, and passionate philosopher. He is known for his “source code teachings,” including Unique Self th...
The Parallax View #113: Cross & Debt
December 21, 2023 12:13 - 59 minutes - 81.7 MBAgain, Tom and Andrew tackle the important things, from pain to poetry to Christ and cunning vixens. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Love or Die #7: A Conversation Series with Marc Gafni - The Tree of Life - Part 2
December 16, 2023 17:14 - 1 hour - 51.1 MBAndrew questions Marc about the famous Tree of Life and the ten Sephirot in Hebrew Kabbalah. An introduction and a radical interpretation. And a discussion on the 2nd and 3rdd Sepirot: Chokhmah and Binah Dr. Marc Gafni is a visionary thinker, social activist, and passionate philosopher. He is known for his “source code teachings,” including Unique Self theory, the Five Selves, the Amorous Cosmos, A Politics of Evolutionary Love, A Return to Eros and Digital Intimacy. He is author of over ...
The Parallax View #112: Dogma
December 14, 2023 12:57 - 1 hour - 116 MBTom and Andrew ramble about justification-systems --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
The Hard Way - with Luke Bhencke - A new course exploring Gurdjieff's Fourth Way
December 09, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour - 49.6 MBA deep conversation and a plug for Luke’s New course: https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/the-hard-way-with-luke-behncke In the early 20th Century, Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff brought an ancient system of personal transformation to the western world known as the ‘Fourth Way’ or the ‘Work’. He claimed that this system was the source of all spiritual traditions and now adapted for the modern world. Its focus is on the individual and community to understand the energies and forces of their...
Sweeny vs Bard #58 with Bonnitta Roy and Alexander Elung - Transcendental Emergentism part 2
December 04, 2023 10:03 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBThe second part in a series with Bonnitta Roy, exploring metaphysics and transcendental emergentism—and other ideas circling around Alexander's new book Process and Event. With Special Guest Alexander Elung Subscribe to our Substack: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Bonnitta is a visioneer, insight guide ...
The Parallax View #111: Wilbers Dream
November 30, 2023 12:07 - 1 hour - 83 MBTom and Andrew ramble about the subtle architecture of the mind --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Deep Future Six: On Metamodernism (with Brendan Graham Dempsey and Tomas Björkman)
November 29, 2023 13:33 - 1 hour - 152 MBOn the transition from the postmodern to the metamodern worldview, Brendans new book Metamodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Cultural Logics, the relationsship between MM and systems-theory and how to deal with money/capitalism in a metamodern way. Subscribe to our Substack: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax: https://parallax-media.eu Brendan Graham Dempsey is a writer, poet, farmer, and the director of Sky Meadow Institute, an organization dedicated to promoting systems-based ...
The Parallax View #110: The Hard Way (with Luke Behncke)
November 23, 2023 12:32 - 1 hour - 89.5 MBTom and Andrew invite Luke Behncke to talk bout Gurdjieff and the hard way of things --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Love or Die #6: A conversation series with Marc Gafni - The Tree of Life - Part 1
November 17, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour - 46.1 MBAndrew questions Marc about the famous Tree of Life and the ten Sephirot in Hebrew Kabbalah. An introduction and a radical interpretation. And a discussion on the first Sepirot, Keter, the crown. Our Substack: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Homepage: www.Parallax-media.eu Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Website Dr. Marc Gafni: http:/...
The Parallax View #109: Reviewing David Finchers´The Killer'
November 16, 2023 11:18 - 51 minutes - 70.9 MBTom Amarque and Andrew Sweeny ramble about the newest Fincher flick --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Love or Die #5 with Marc Gafni: Sabbatai Sevi - Part 2
November 11, 2023 15:37 - 1 hour - 45.9 MBIn part 2 of this passionate conversation, Marc speaks the unspeakable: about Sabbatai Sevi, The Hebrew Wisdom Messiah, and his wife Sara, where sex and Eros meet religion and the clarification of desire. Our Substack: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Homepage: www.Parallax-media.eu Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Website Dr. Marc Gafni...
The Parallax View #108 - On Israel and Palestine
November 09, 2023 12:06 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBTom and Andrew ramble about the barbarians at the gate. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
KULTURWANG #17: Jordan Peterson - Culture Chud
November 08, 2023 14:42 - 1 hour - 92 MBor: How to undress Postmodernism. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Marc Gafni and Bonnitta Roy - What is lineage?
November 05, 2023 14:07 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBLinks: Our Substack: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Homepage: www.Parallax-media.euEvents: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendarParallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Bio: Bonnitta is a visioneer, insight guide and horse whisperer. Her work is deeply embodied and grounded, and over the last several years, she's shown us how to trust the intelligence of life again. She is founder of Alderl...
The Parallax View #107 - And Triggernometry
November 02, 2023 14:22 - 53 minutes - 72.9 MBTom and Andrew ramble about way more successful podcasts. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Deep Future #5: Ghosts, Cracks and the Art of Living (with Nora Bateson and Susanne Cook-Greuter)
October 27, 2023 07:35 - 1 hour - 76.8 MBIn many ways, our understanding of and our relationship to our future forms and shapes us. Yet there is a subtle feeling that this relationship with the future itself is currently changing. We are collectively confronted with a lot of problems that are already here or are approaching us fast from a horizon before us, And yet we know that we can´t solve these problems with the current mindset. We don´t even know if our collective framing of that horizon and the events that we are anticipati...
KULTURWANG #16: Adjacent Reviews Part 1
October 27, 2023 07:20 - 1 hour - 96.3 MBTalking about 'Killers of the Flower Moon' without talking about it --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
The Parallax View #106 - Re: Sapolsky
October 26, 2023 11:28 - 49 minutes - 67.4 MBTom and Andrew ramble about free will and the reincarnation of Abraham --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
KULTURWANG #15: Lets get Swifty
October 20, 2023 08:13 - 1 hour - 112 MBTaylor Swift got send into heaven, Libido got transformed into Mortido, and Israel became the woman --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Sweeny vs Bard #57 with Bonnitta Roy - Transcendental Emergentism
October 19, 2023 12:12 - 1 hour - 66.3 MBThe beginning of a series with Bonnitta Roy, exploring metaphysics and transcendental emergentism—and other ideas circling around Alexander's new book Process and Event. Subscribe to our Substack: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Bonnitta is a visioneer, insight guide and horse whisperer. Her work is dee...
O.G. Rose and Cadell Last - Unplanning, Ivan Illich, and a new course at Parallax
October 14, 2023 16:49 - 1 hour - 71.1 MBNew Courses at Parallax: https://parallax-media.eu/courses/og-rose-look-at-the-birds-of-the-air https://parallax-media.eu/courses/the-hard-way-with-luke-behncke Subscribe to our Substack: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar A finalist for the UNO Press Lab Prize and Pushcart Nominee, O.G. Rose’s creative works...
Kulturwang #14: Cumming in hot
October 13, 2023 10:35 - 1 hour - 99.8 MBWhen the rubber meets the road. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
The Parallax View #105: Ressentiment
October 12, 2023 12:39 - 42 minutes - 58.8 MBTom and Andrew ramble about Aphanipoiesis , libido and death-drive and the Israel/Palenstine conflict. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Greg Kaminkski - “A Revelation of Wonderment: Reflections on Traktung Rinpoche's 9 Spheres Teachings, 2017-2022”- A dangerous New Book
October 10, 2023 09:25 - 1 hour - 64.9 MBAn intense and heartfelt discussion of Greg Kaminski's dangerous new book. On the vicissitudes and wonders of the spiritual path from the perspective of Dzogchen/Tantra and the 9 spheres of divinity. Greg Kaminsky is a practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhism and a close student of Traktung Rinpoche. He is also a scholar of medieval studies, an explorer of Mysteries with a deep knowledge of Western esotericism, and a long-time podcaster. His prior works include an essay in "The Art and Science ...
The Parallax View #104: Doomsday Fetishism
October 05, 2023 11:02 - 55 minutes - 76.4 MBA proper assault on the meta-crisis, amongst and other things. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Jordan Hall - Civium and Tools for Conviviality
October 05, 2023 08:57 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBNew Courses at Parallax: https://parallax-media.eu/courses/og-rose-look-at-the-birds-of-the-air https://parallax-media.eu/courses/the-hard-way-with-luke-behncke Subscribe to our Substack: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar I asked Jordan about his relationship with the philosopher and historian Ivan Illich an...
The Parallax View #103: Clusterfuck
September 28, 2023 09:34 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBWhere are the comedians when you need them? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
The Parallax View #102: Lower Standards
September 20, 2023 16:41 - 50 minutes - 69.6 MBTom and Andrew ramble about envy and the nitty gritty stuff inbetween --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
The Parallax Extravaganza #4: Process and Event (Bard-Ebert-Hamelryck-Cox)
September 20, 2023 16:22 - 1 hour - 156 MBIn this edition of the Parallax Extravaganza #4, we dig into Alexander Bards new book "Process and Event", the scapegoat mechanism & Russell Brand and a lot of explosive surplus energy. With Alexander Bard, Alex Ebert, Thomas Hamelryck and Owen Cox Alex Ebert is an erstwhile multiplatinum songwriter and Golden Globe-winning film composer now taking up philosophy in New Orleans. He is currently finishing his first book, Dead Cool, an analysis of sociodynamics and status anxiety in the age ...
New Parallax Course! O.G. Rose - Look at the Birds in the Air - How we must unplan our lives.
September 20, 2023 08:02 - 1 hour - 85.8 MBCourse Starts Saturday, November 4th: https://parallax-media.eu/courses/og-rose-look-at-the-birds-of-the-air ` Parallax Substack—sign up here: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Parallax Membership: https://parallax-media.eu/membership Parallax Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1IBCLy7a4KhNXsH5ejtCaM As the second instalment of our ‘Tools for Conviviality’ courses...
The Parallax View #101: Higher Standards
September 15, 2023 08:30 - 59 minutes - 81.3 MBTom and Andrew ramble about philosopher kings, and their sex-practices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Love or Die #4: A Conversation Series with Marc Gafni - Sabbatai, Sevi, Sara, and the Messiah
September 11, 2023 18:45 - 1 hour - 51.6 MBSubscribe to our substack: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar In this passionate conversation, Marc speaks the unspeakable: about Sabbatai Sevi, The Hebrew Wisdom Messiah and his wife Sara. Where sex and Eros meet religion and the clarification of desire. Dr. Marc Gafni is a visionary thinker, social acti...
The Parallax View #100: Sloterdijk´s Dream
September 09, 2023 12:31 - 51 minutes - 70.8 MBTom and Andrew ramble about Marshall McLuhan reading texts, Lacan´s Real and Peterson´s Ordeal --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Sweeny vs Bard #56 - Back in Black
September 05, 2023 20:50 - 1 hour - 49.5 MBAfter a bit of a hiatus, Sweeny vs Bard are back to talk about core Bardism, Alexander’s new book Process and Event, Zoraster, Marx, Time, Space, and God. Please enjoy this feast. Links to courses at Parallax starting Sunday, September 10th: https://parallax-media.eu/courses/the-convivial-life-conversations-with-ivan-illich-friends --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
The Parallax View #99: Zombie ideas
September 02, 2023 11:02 - 1 hour - 102 MBWe are on a shooting range: We-Spaces, meaning crisis, postmodernism, metamodernism, time between worlds, sangha and spirituality. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Kulturwang #7: Thot-GPT
September 02, 2023 07:47 - 54 minutes - 75.2 MBAbout cringe Tik Tok Dances, and the female urge to expose themselves --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Parallax Academy # 17 - David Cayley and Bonnitta Roy on Ivan Illich - Friendship in the network age
September 01, 2023 14:45 - 2 hours - 82 MBThis conversation is in advance of Bonnitta Roy's THE CONVIVIAL LIFE - CONVERSATIONS WITH IVAN ILLICH & FRIENDS, which begins on Sunday, September 10th and runs every Sunday until October 1. It will include prerecorded lectures, live Zoom sessions and campfire community sessions. For more information and to join us in the learning and conviviality, please check out the links below: https://parallax-media.eu/courses/the-convivial-life-conversations-with-ivan-illich-friends Bonnitta Roy is...
Kulturwang #6 : The Bodycount Identity
August 26, 2023 07:24 - 1 hour - 97.2 MBMasha and Tom dig into Baracks and Ninas bodycount and try to find out if the womens identity is defined by whom she is dating. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
The Parallax View #98: In Taylor we trust
August 19, 2023 11:01 - 53 minutes - 74.1 MBTom and Andrew ramble about Taylor Swift, the Pareto-distribution, the dialectic of collective conscious and unconscious, and a world with a naked women in it´s center. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
The Parallax View #97: Lacan and stuff
August 05, 2023 11:41 - 1 hour - 85.3 MBThe one and only Cadell Last joins the show to tell us something about Lacan and his Ecrits. Cadell is anthropologist (M.Sc.) and philosopher (Ph.D.) with an interest in biocultural evolution, mind-matter relation, speculative futures, Hegel and Lacan. He offers now a course on Lacan on his Philosophy Portral. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Bonnitta Roy - The Convivial Life - Full conversation
August 02, 2023 17:58 - 56 minutes - 41.9 MBCheck out https://parallax-media.eu/courses for more info Bonnitta is a visioneer, insight guide and horse whisperer. Her work is deeply embodied and grounded, and over the last several years, she's shown us how to trust the intelligence of life again. She is the founder of Alderlore Insight Center and curates wickedly provocative and seriously surprising conversations at The Pop-UP School. Her course, THE CONVIVIAL LIFE - CONVERSATIONS WITH IVAN ILLICH & FRIENDS, begins on Sunday, Septemb...