Parallax
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Heterodox magazine for philosophy, spirituality and psychology
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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...
The Parallax View #96: Schmoppenheimer
July 29, 2023 10:31 - 58 minutes - 79.9 MBTom and Andrew ramble about Oppenheimer, dreams and freak accidents --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Prof. Dr. Dirk Baecker: On Media, Fake News and Niklas Luhmanns systems theory
July 28, 2023 13:10 - 59 minutes - 81.8 MBProf. Dr. Dirk Baecker is a sociologist and holds senior professorship for organization theory and theory of society at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen at Lake Constance. He studied systems theory with Niklas Luhmann. He has been recognized as one of the most prominent German sociologists with important works on cultural theory, sociological theory, economic sociology and organizational sociology. He is the author of numerous books, including KATJEKTE, published at Merve. In this c...
Kulturwang #3: Squirtology
July 28, 2023 07:20 - 1 hour - 85.1 MBMasha and Tom ask the relevant questions --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
The Convivial Life - With Bonnitta Roy
July 24, 2023 12:15 - 23 minutes - 17.3 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...
Love or Die #3: A conversation series with Marc Gafni - AI and Hebrew Wisdom
July 22, 2023 15:04 - 1 hour - 67.1 MBConsider supporting us by donation via PayPal, Patronage or by becoming an Academy member: https://parallax-media.eu/donate Parallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar The 3rd of a monthly series of discussions, Love or Die, in which Marc and Andrew discuss the meta-crisis, Hebrew Wisdom and AI. How can we rewrite the source code of the present epoc...
The Parallax View #95: Hokuspokus
July 22, 2023 11:16 - 46 minutes - 64.5 MBThe boys review the Barbie movie and discover the laws of Magick --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Parallax Talk: Deep Future #4: How to engage with the future (with Daniel Görtz and Michael Garfield)
July 19, 2023 13:55 - 1 hour - 90.8 MBDaniel Görtz and Michael Garfield in dialogue, hosted by Tom Amarque "Evil is the annunciation of the next level of order" Paleontologist-Futurist Michael Garfield is devoted to helping navigate our age of accelerating weirdness and helping cultivate the curiosity and play we'll need to thrive in it. As host and producer of both Future Fossils Podcast & The Santa Fe Institute's Complexity Podcast, Michael acts as interlocutor for a worldwide community of artists, scientists, and philosophe...
Kulturwang #1: Tranny Pageant Supremacy
July 18, 2023 15:27 - 52 minutes - 72 MBThe perverts Masha Anderson and Tom Amarque dig into Freak-Pageants, fuckibility factors, the Marilyn-Monroe-Mechanism and Sissy-Porn, Red Scare and Steve Bannon. Go to patreon.com/kulturwang for more episodes --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
The Parallax View #94: Topless in the Church
July 08, 2023 10:52 - 1 hour - 92.7 MBTom and Andrew ramble about the architecture of memes, archetypes, buildings, sex and innovation --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
The Parallax View #93: Paris is burning
July 02, 2023 11:41 - 54 minutes - 74.8 MBThere is no meaning crisis, there is no time between worlds. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Deep Future #3: The Future of A.I. (2nd edition/edited - with Alexander Bard, Thomas Hamelryck, Jim Rutt and Alex Ebert)
June 20, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 93.9 MBEdited audio, full unedited video available at Patreon. Hosted by Tom Amarque Will A.I. flatten the human experience? Will new technologies disrupt ancient religious mechanisms like ritual, prohibition ans sacrifice? What is the future of A.I. itself? Guests are: Swedish Philosopher Alexander Bard, Jim Rutt, Former Chairman Santa Fe Institute, Co-initiator of the Game B, and host of the popular podcast the Jim Rutt Show, American Philosopher and musician Alex Ebert and Thomas Hamelryck, a...
Parallax Academy #16 - Transgender Narratives- Beyond The Culture War
June 20, 2023 09:13 - 1 hour - 103 MBWith Rachel Hayden, Adriana Forte, Aydan Connor Hosted by Andrew Sweeny Consider supporting us by donation via PayPal, Patronage or by becoming an Academy member: https://parallax-media.eu/donate Parallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculumMembership: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy is an educational and media-based network of friends, writers, teachers, and podcasters offe...
The Parallax View #91: What is a book? (with Cadell Last)
June 17, 2023 11:15 - 1 hour - 88.8 MBPhilosopher Cadell Last from Philosophy Portal is joining the Parallax view to talk about Nietzsche, Leadership and the function of books. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Parallax Academy # 15 - Jamie Wheal - Radical Optimism and the Rapture
June 15, 2023 14:35 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBConsider supporting us by donation via PayPal, Patronage or by becoming an Academy member: https://parallax-media.eu/donate Catching up with the eloquent Jamie Wheel about culture and existential threat. How to be radically optomistic and realistic at the same time in the search for extacy. Biography (source: https://www.flowgenomeproject.com/tea...) Jamie Wheal is the Executive Director of The Flow Genome Project and leading expert in the neurophysiology of human performance. His work co...
"Parallax Academy # 14 - Luke Behncke - On Gurdjieff And The 4th Way "
June 11, 2023 15:20 - 1 hour - 78.7 MBConsider supporting us by donation via PayPal, Patronage or by becoming an Academy member: https://parallax-media.eu/donate A deep conversation about the relevance of Gurdjieff And The 4th Way. Hosted by Andrew Sweeny 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 fro...
The Parallax View #90: Sophemes
June 11, 2023 07:37 - 57 minutes - 78.8 MBTom and Andrew ramble about Sophemes, Spandrels and Spaces inbetween --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Love or Die #2: A conversation series with Marc Gafni - Radical Kabbalah
June 08, 2023 10:42 - 1 hour - 92.1 MBConsider supporting us by donation via PayPal, Patronage or by becoming an Academy member: https://parallax-media.eu/donate The 2nd of a monthly series of discussions, Love or Die, in which Marc elaborates on what he has called 'The global intimacy crisis' and 'CosmoErotic Humanism'. 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! This week we delve into Hebrew Wisdom and Radical Kabbalah. "Dr. Marc Gafni is a visi...
Deep Future II: The Future of A.I. (Parallax/IDW Extravaganza)
June 06, 2023 07:41 - 1 hour - 112 MBAlexander Bard - Jim Rutt - Alex Ebert - Thomas Hamelryck in dialogue, hosted by Tom Amarque Tristan Harris proclaimed that 50% of all A.I. researches believe that there is a 10 % chance that humans go extinct because of our inability to control A.I. What should our relationship to A.I. be? Will only the elites have the chance to be disconnected? Will A.I. completely accomodate our pleasure principle? Will we maintain freedom? Should be be worried, cautious, or adventorous. Guests are: S...
Parallax Academy # 13 - O.G. Rose - AI, Kids, and The Owl of Minerva
May 29, 2023 18:03 - 1 hour - 104 MBA delightful and weirdly optimistic conversation with Daniel and Michelle Garner about the AI revolution, raising kids, and the importance of intrinsic as opposed to extrinsic motivation. A finalist for the UNO Press Lab Prize and Pushcart Nominee, O.G. Rose’s creative works appear at The Write Launch, Allegory Ridge, Ponder Review, Iowa Review online, The William and Mary Review, Assure Press, Toho Journal online, O:JA&L, West Trade Review, Broken Pencil, Burningword, and Poydras Review. ...
The Parallax View #88: The Beast, and the Whore
May 28, 2023 08:18 - 1 hour - 125 MBMasha Anderson, podcast host from Pangburn, joins Tom and Andrew for a wide-ranging and mind-bending discussion about sex and archetype. Find her at @mashadiaspora Consider supporting us by donation via PayPal, Patronage or by becoming a Academy member under https://parallax-media.eu/donate ABOUT PARALLAX NEW NARRATIVES FOR A COMPLEX WORLD The Grand narratives that once sustained us are broken and diverse ideologies have captured our attention. Parallax wants to explore the underlying issu...
Parallax Academy # 12: Shozan Jack Haubner: Tathagata Zen
May 24, 2023 09:48 - 1 hour - 78 MBShozan Jack Haubner talks to Andrew Sweeny about Zen, Comedy, Love, Learning to Die, Leonard Cohen, and other things that matter the most. Shozan describes himself as a Zen priest, writer, bon vivant, and confused renunciate. Failed screenwriter, poet, stand-up comic, and Catholic. Available for parties. He is also the award-winning author of Single White Monk: Tales of Death, Failure, and Bad Sex (Although Not Necessarily in that Order) and Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk ...
The Parallax View #87: The other Big Five
May 20, 2023 10:56 - 1 hour - 88.4 MBTom and Andrew ramble about the the irregularities around the margins --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Parallax Academy # 11: Tammy Peterson: Listening, Beauty, and Wrestling With God
May 15, 2023 10:56 - 1 hour - 76.3 MBTammy Peterson catches up with Andrew Sweeny and speaks about her Catholic conversion, storytelling, her husband Jordan Peterson's tours, a critique of feminism, the need for deep listening, prayer, beauty, negotiation and wrestling with God. A wise and quiet but articulate counterpart to her firebrand husband! Links: https://www.youtube.com/@Tammy-Peterson/about Parallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum ...
The Parallax View #86: The shape of things to come
May 13, 2023 10:26 - 49 minutes - 68.4 MBTom and Andrew ramble about pyramids, critical paths, AI, doom and gloom, Baudelaire´s great poem on drunkenness, and beauty in the streets of Palma. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Parallax Academy # 10: Zak Stein - The Coming of The Supermind - Education and AI
May 12, 2023 18:58 - 1 hour - 87.5 MBA conversation with educational philosopher Dr Zak Stein about the future of education, AI, and its dystopian and utopian possibilities. What happens when we create the supermind. Hosted by Andrew Sweeny Zak Stein studied philosophy and religion at Hampshire College, and then educational neuroscience, human development, and the philosophy of education at Harvard University. While a student at Harvard, he co-founded what would become Lectica, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to the research-ba...
Love or Die #1: A conversation series with Marc Gafni
May 10, 2023 11:14 - 1 hour - 83.6 MBHosted by Andrew Sweeny The first of a monthly series of discussions, Love or Die, in which Marc elaborates on what he has called 'The global intimacy crisis' and 'CosmoErotic Humanism'. 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! 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 Amorou...
The Parallax View #85: Coronation (with Arabella Thais)
May 06, 2023 12:08 - 58 minutes - 80.8 MBArabella Thais is a writer, philosopher and podcast host. We ramble about art as an antidote to existential dread. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Parallax Academy # 9: Angela Puca - Witchcraft, Magick, And Paganism
May 03, 2023 19:54 - 1 hour - 66.4 MBHosted by Andrew Sweeny Dr Angela Puca holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Philosophy. In 2021, The University of Leeds awarded her a PhD in Anthropology of Religion, which will soon be published with Brill. Her research focuses on magic, witchcraft, Paganism, esotericism, shamanism, and related currents. Author of several peer-reviewed publications and co-editor of the forthcoming ‘Pagan religions in five minutes’ for Equinox, she hopes to bridge the gap between academia and the ...
Jules Evans: More evolved than you (and other spiritual pathologies)
April 30, 2023 08:26 - 1 hour - 91.4 MBJules Evans is a writer, historian of ideas and practical philosopher. Jules is now leading the Challenging Psychedelic Experiences Project - researching psychedelic harm reduction, ethics and integration. He wrote the essay 'More evolved than you', outlining several spiritual pathologies. In this talk, we delve into his essay. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
The Parallax View #84: Hard Job
April 29, 2023 12:15 - 43 minutes - 59.2 MBTom and Andrew ramble about the patriarchy, a trans-spectrum, and tough handjobs. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Parallax Academy # 8: John Vervaeke and Christopher Mastropietro - After Socrates and Kierkegaard
April 24, 2023 16:32 - 1 hour - 75.7 MBHosted by Andrew Sweeny A discussion with philosopher and cognitive scientist John Vervaeke and his writing partner Christopher Mastropietro about the philosophers they love best: for John, Socrates for and Christopher Søren Kierkegaard. Parallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership and Donation: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spot...
Parallax Academy # 7: Fanny Norlin - Awakening The Feminine And Honouring The Masculine
April 23, 2023 15:23 - 1 hour - 72.9 MBHosted by Andrew Sweeny Fanny Norlin has for the past ten years lived and breathed decentralised initiatives, where she, for the past five years, has specialised in the role the feminine and masculine play for leaders, organisations and the emerging society. She has created a framework that can help us cut through the culture wars and distorted versions of both polarities and unleash the power and creative potential between them. She is an engineer and economist, ex-C-level of one of Sweden...
The Parallax View #83: The Laws of Money
April 15, 2023 14:57 - 49 minutes - 67.7 MBTom Amarque and Andrew Sweeny ramble about society as an organism, resonance, chance, offerings and the sweet smell of success --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Pamela Von Sabljar - Living From Eros
April 10, 2023 14:49 - 1 hour - 85.4 MBHosted by Andrew Sweeny How are men and women different? An inquiry into the male and female principle, spirituality, tantra, and eros. Pamela von Sabljar is a new breed speaker, facilitator, and mentor working at the evolutionary edge. She practices dialoguing, sensing, creating, and leading from this ever-emergent edge. She calls this Living from Eros. Links: https://www.pamelavonsabljar.com Parallax academy is an educational and media-based network of friends, writers, teachers, and...
The Parallax View #82: Excess and absence (with Alex Ebert)
April 08, 2023 11:36 - 1 hour - 112 MBAlex Ebert is an American singer-songwriter, best known for being the lead singer and songwriter for the American band 'Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros'. He is an Golden Globe winning composer for the Robert Redford movie "All is lost". But most of all, Ebert is also a pretty deep and fascinating thinker and philosopher. Tom Amarque and Andrew Sweeny invited him to The Parallax View to talk about "excess and absence", two core concepts of Ebert that interweave music and metaphysics and...
UTOK Consilience Conference 2023 - Reflections from the Intellectual Deep Web
April 02, 2023 18:44 - 1 hour - 159 MBWith Alexander Bard, Alex Ebert, Fanny Norlin—Moderated by Andrew Sweeny What have the mysterious renegades from the legendary Intellectual Deep Web been thinking about lately? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
The Parallax View #81: The Problem of Emancipation
April 01, 2023 10:26 - 41 minutes - 57.3 MBTom Amarque and Andrew Sweeny ramble about feminism and the recurrence of the same --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
The Parallax View #80: Achilles Schmachtenberger
March 25, 2023 12:12 - 42 minutes - 57.9 MBMarch 25th 2023 Tom Amarque and Andrew Sweeny ramble about the Illiad, Archetypes, Gods, Individualism, ROTA, and the cure for the world. Somewhat it all belongs together. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Parallax Academy # 5: Alexander Bard, Zevi Slavin, and Andrew Sweeny
March 24, 2023 15:27 - 1 hour - 94.5 MBA Zoroastrian, A Jew, and a Buddhist - The Mystic Orders along The Silk Road What happens when a Zoroastrian, a Jew, and a Buddhist get together and have a conversation? A spirited debate where Zevi and I get 'barded'. Mysticism, religion, anthropology, and philosophy galore! Zevi Slavin is the creator of Seekers of Unity, an educational project and community dedicated to a collaborative, comparative, interdisciplinary exploration of mysticism. Exploring the unity of the world’s mystical ...
Parallax Academy # 4: JOHN MICHAEL GREER - Magic and Divination
March 21, 2023 09:17 - 1 hour - 89.9 MBOwen Cox and Andrew Sweeny in conversation with the widely respected author and blogger in fields ranging from nature spirituality to the future of industrial society, John Michael Greer is the author of more than seventy books, including sixteen novels, and blogs weekly at ecosophia.net. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife Sara. "Parallax academy is an educational and media-based network of friends, writers, teachers, and podcasters offering online study circles, classes, and offline ev...
The Parallax View #78: Construct-Awareness
March 19, 2023 09:44 - 1 hour - 82.6 MBTom and Andrew ramble about object-permanence, paradigm-shifts and Tom´s new Parallax-Series on 'Magick and the Ecology of Psyche' --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
The Parallax View #79: What is a Woman anyway? (with Layman Pascal)
March 17, 2023 09:04 - 1 hour - 82.9 MBAre there any essences left? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message