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https://www.parallax-media.eu/

Heterodox magazine for philosophy, spirituality and psychology

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The Parallax View Ep. 45: Alameda de Hercules

June 04, 2022 10:19 - 55 minutes - 44.1 MB

Andrew and Tom argue about the well-rounded personality, having a contradiction free worldview, Heidegger and Schopenhauer, being in the world, gender polarities in regard of violence and instances when you can´t trust a man. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

CADELL LAST: Zarathustra and the last man

June 03, 2022 12:04 - 1 hour - 77.3 MB

Cadell Last's THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA COURSE STARTS JULY 14TH 2022 Sing up here:  https://www.philosophyportal.online/ Cadell introduces the explosive text known as Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Frederic Nietzche.       About Cadell:   "I am a philosopher interested in interpreting and communicating the greatest philosophical works with the aim of bringing these works into a practical engagement for the life of the mind.  I believe the most important challenge for the human mind today is reconc...

Layman Pascal: What is tantra?

May 26, 2022 16:34 - 1 hour - 67.3 MB

Layman Pascal is an author and host of the Podcast THE INTEGRAL STAGE. He is also a public speaker, nondual theologian and yoga & meditation teacher, apocalyptarian—and so many other things.     We brought Layman to the Parallax Media Academy to talk about Tantra—to get his view of why tantra is necessary and essential in the 21st Century and what kind of ground needs to be laid for genuine tantra to flourish. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c...

The Parallax View Ep. 44: Skin in the Game

May 21, 2022 11:16 - 53 minutes - 41 MB

May 21th 2022 Andrew is back, and We talk about the well-rounded personality, art, the gap between self and persona, line of sexual development, what is beauty, and of course anal probes. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

The Parallax View Ep. 43: Trials and tribulations (with Owen Cox)

May 15, 2022 08:27 - 1 hour - 59.1 MB

Owen Cox from the “Technosocial Podcast” joins the show to talk about men´s work and the trials and tribulations of young men. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

Alex Ebert: Death and The cool

May 14, 2022 20:57 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MB

A Parallax Media Academy Dialogue hosted by Owen Cox and Andrew Sweeny --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

Daniel Fraga: Ontological Design

May 14, 2022 20:11 - 29 minutes - 26.5 MB

A Parallax Media Academy presentation --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

The Parallax View Ep. 43: Eros

April 30, 2022 07:48 - 54 minutes - 47.4 MB

April 30th 2022 Eros & Libido, Freund vs Jung, Schopenhauer and Amber. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

The Murder of Eros with Marc Gafni: Round 2 of a dialogue with Marc Gafni

April 28, 2022 19:29 - 1 hour - 78.1 MB

Marc Gafni is a Rabbi, an integral philosopher, and—and by his own description—an outrageous lover, as any good philosopher should be.  I spoke to him about his book ‘a return to eros’ and the need for eros in spirituality, politics, and life.   In this conversation, I will query him about ‘the murder of eros’, based on the final chapter in his book—and ask him how spirituality and religion can integrate the erotic, beyond mere hedonism or repression.  As Marc says, ‘We need to take s...

The Parallax View Ep. 42: Hollywood Hour

April 23, 2022 15:39 - 58 minutes - 45.5 MB

April 23th 2022 A podcast that can talk about god and stuff can also talk about the deranged life of some celebrities. We are hunting high and low, folks --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

Sweeny vs Bard #54: A class of Paradigms: The war in Ukraine from a meta-historical perspective

April 23, 2022 10:21 - 1 hour - 53.5 MB

The first Sweeny vs Bard without a guest in a while.  In this episode, Alexander describes the war in Ukraine as a clash of paradigms rather than civilization.  He says that it’s a fight between David and Goliath, but also liberal democracy vs Putin’s attempt at Feudalism in the digital age.  We talk about Duganism, technology, history, and religion in the face of the war.  And so much more. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

Is Layman Pascal a Guru? A parallax dialogue with Andrew Sweeny

April 16, 2022 15:44 - 1 hour - 58.1 MB

REBUILDING SPIRITUALITY FOR A NEW A NEW WORLD  Sign up here:  https://parallax-media.eu/events/rebuilding-spirituality  This special introduction to “Rebuilding Spirituality” serves as the inaugural gateway to all future PARALLAX ACADEMY courses in this important emerging domain. Starting from his own unique philosophical and practical approaches, Layman Pascal guides us through a deep exploration of what it will really take to be a personal practitioner, teacher-theorist or collaborative co...

The Parallax View Ep. 41: Where is Baby Jesus?

April 16, 2022 11:35 - 59 minutes - 47.4 MB

April 16th 2022 Andrew Sweeny and Tom Amarque on death cults and unbound libidinal energies. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

The Parallax View Ep. 40: Cause célèbre

April 09, 2022 11:28 - 1 hour - 74.1 MB

https://parallax-media.eu/the-parallax-view     April 9th 2022 - A Sloterdijkean view on celebrity, where we come from, and where it will go. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

The Parallax View Ep. 39: The libertines

April 02, 2022 11:26 - 59 minutes - 47.3 MB

April 2nd Dugin-Chaos-Ukraine-The Slap-Magick ... this one is for the fans --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

The Parallax View Ep. 38: Special Operations

March 26, 2022 11:44 - 50 minutes - 43.3 MB

Andrew Sweeny reads his new essay ‘Special Operations’ and The Kali Yuga - Meditations on the War in Ukraine. Available at www.parallax-media.eu. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

The Parallax View Ep. 37: Congresso Cum Daimoni

March 19, 2022 16:04 - 1 hour - 51.1 MB

Campbell Dixon joins for a trio infernal about sexual politics, sexual initiation, the virtues and pitfalls of monogamy and polyamory, pornofication vs true eroticism ... it´s about sex, guys. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

Strange Attractor Roundtable Ep. 5: New Organizational Models for a Game B World

March 18, 2022 09:33 - 1 hour - 123 MB

Buckminster Fuller once said, ”You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” If the current system is „Game A“, how do new organizational models for a "Game B“ world look like? What insights can we glean from experiments in the space of self-management? How would a truly integral, metamodern, holistic form of running a business look like? How can we make purpose the boss and decentralize power syst...

The Parallax View Ep. 36: Sex, Batman & Levels of Joy

March 12, 2022 11:38 - 54 minutes - 42.6 MB

Saturday 12th of march. A  Parallax View on Sex, War & Aggression. And the connection between Batman and the Ukraine conflict. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

The Parallax View Ep. 35: Shut if off

March 05, 2022 11:35 - 55 minutes - 42.3 MB

A Parallax View on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, the information war, a tasteless joke, Game A vs Game B reactions, the power of the Id, and an asymmetrical solution. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

The Parallax View Ep. 34: Cuddled to Death

February 26, 2022 11:34 - 58 minutes - 46.2 MB

February, 26th In this weeks episode: Layman Pascal as the 'Liminal Web´s' MVP, the protestant dogma of averting your eyes when it´s right in front of you, Gurdjieff´s mindtricks & the art of dying, Ukraine & accepting the unacceptable, and of course spaceships. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

The Parallax View Ep. 33: People of the Cock

February 20, 2022 09:13 - 1 hour - 60.6 MB

February, 20th In which Andrew wants to get cancelled, invents "spiritual wokeism", talks about the Intellectual Deep Web, and gets corrected by Aleister Crowley. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

Marc Gafni: A Return to Eros

February 18, 2022 12:27 - 2 hours - 93.8 MB

Parallax Spiritual Book Club Presents a dialogue with Marc Gafni   Dr. Marc Gafni’s Biography: https://www.marcgafni.com/dr-marc-gafni-biographyParallax Spiritual Book Club: The Parallax spiritual book club is every Sunday 8pm CET on Zoom: https://parallax-media.eu/bookclub/parallax-spiritual-book-club --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

The Parallax View Ep. 32: The death of philosophy

February 12, 2022 14:08 - 47 minutes - 38.3 MB

February, 12th A call for the crazy ones - the artists & magickians - You can quote them, disagree with them,  glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them  because they change things --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

Parallax-Interview with Jim Rutt

February 10, 2022 09:00 - 56 minutes - 52 MB

Jim Rutt was Former Chairman Santa Fe Institute, is Co-initiator of the GameB community, and host of the popular podcast the Jim Rutt Show We are were talking about complexity, catastrophes, competition in relationship to Game A and Game B. How to deal with complex systems? How efficacious are we actually? How to deal with inevitable catastrophes? And how to deal with our inbuild drive to compete? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

The Parallax View Ep. 31: Most valuable Player

February 05, 2022 11:37 - 50 minutes - 41.2 MB

February, 5th Most valuable Player AND most valuable tribe. Get the news here --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

The Parallax View Ep. 30: End of history

January 29, 2022 13:38 - 41 minutes - 34 MB

This one has a bend to it. Musings on Old hags, prophecy, and metamodernism --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

Some notes on Metamodernism, with Timotheus Vermeulen, Robin van der Acker and Alison Gibbons

January 26, 2022 13:59 - 1 hour - 62 MB

Prof. Timotheus Vermeulen, Dr. Robin van der Acker and Dr. Alison Gibbons wrote on the cultural condition known as Metamodernism. We are talking about the attributes and characteristics of Metamodernism, Covid and new concepts of time, the problems of the media-landscape, devices of literature and commonalities with other post-postmodern theories. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

Crazy Wisdom with Layman Pascal

January 24, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 61.5 MB

Parallax Spiritual Book Club Presents a dialogue with Layman Pascal and Andrew Sweeny on Crazy Wisdom.     Layman Pascal is an author and host of the Podcast THE INTEGRAL STAGE. He is also a public speaker, nondual theologian and yoga & meditation teacher—and so many other things.     The Parallax spiritual book club is every Sunday 8pm CET on Zoom: SIGN UP HERE  https://parallax-media.eu/bookclub/parallax-spiritual-book-club  A survey of texts from mystical, tantric, and non dual traditio...

The Parallax View Ep. 29: The Depression-Idiot

January 22, 2022 12:06 - 54 minutes - 44 MB

January, 22th There is only one viable solution to the meaning crisis, to the pickle we are in, and to the multitude of informational, environmental, political, economical problems. Only one. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

Sweeny, Bard, Hamelryck, and Last: Capitalism, Attentionalism, and Mimetic Theory

January 21, 2022 08:43 - 1 hour - 84.4 MB

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 academic research interests revolve around Machine learning, Bayesian statistics, Protein Structure Predict...

The Parallax View Ep. 28: The Abraham-Dilemma

January 14, 2022 09:05 - 51 minutes - 41.6 MB

January, 14th A talk about Rene Girard, scapegoeting Fauci and Djokovic, and children as sacrifical victims --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

The Parallax View Ep. 27: Mass formation Psychosis

January 08, 2022 12:03 - 1 hour - 50.6 MB

A talk about the psychosis-model of clinical psychiatrist Matthias Desmet. Or is the Covid-Craze fundamentally a religious phenomenon? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

The Parallax View: Tantra, Trungpa, and Booze

January 01, 2022 11:50 - 1 hour - 54.7 MB

January 1st; Ep. 26 A reading of Andrews piece Tantra, Trungpa, and Booze --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

The Parallax View: Tug-of-War

December 25, 2021 13:38 - 1 hour - 43.5 MB

December 25th; Ep. 25 Andrew and Tom do a deep dive on the new Matrix 4 flick --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

The Parallax View, with Cadell Last: Metaphysics of HipHop

December 18, 2021 15:52 - 1 hour - 74.4 MB

December 18th; Ep. 24 Cadell Last joins the discussion.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

Parallax Interview with Lone Morch, Cordula Frei

December 17, 2021 09:41 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MB

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 der Pandemie und  Krise? Wie findet sich Resilienz und schöpferische Kraft im Prozess  zwischen Krankheit und Gesundung? --- ...

Parallax-Interview with Aaron Cheak

December 03, 2021 09:39 - 1 hour - 57.7 MB

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), --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

Parallax Roundtable: Towards a Metaphysical Totality

December 01, 2021 11:29 - 1 hour - 109 MB

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

The Parallax Interview: Sophie Strand

November 30, 2021 09:53 - 1 hour - 55 MB

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.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

The Parallax View: FUCK ENLIGHTENMENT

November 27, 2021 13:36 - 1 hour - 65.8 MB

November 27th; Ep. 23:  Daniel Fraga and Alexander Bard join the discussion. Enlightenment is dead. Long live the will to transcendence. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/podcast-c709ee4/message

The Parallax View: Fuck Enlightenment

November 27, 2021 13:36 - 1 hour - 65.8 MB

November 27th; Ep. 23:  Daniel Fraga and Alexander Bard join the discussion. Enlightenment is dead. Long live the will to transcendence. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

The Parallax Interview: David Chaim Smith - On the Mystical View

November 22, 2021 05:10 - 2 hours - 111 MB

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 blend coalesced while working with an obscure thirteenth-century text called The Fountain of Wisd...

David Chaim Smith: The Mystical View

November 22, 2021 05:10 - 2 hours - 111 MB

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 blend coalesced while working with an obscure thirteenth-century text called The Fountain of Wisd...

The Parallax View: Convertible Ride

November 20, 2021 11:55 - 56 minutes - 46.1 MB

November 20th; Ep. 22 A king has his reign. And then he dies. It´s inevitable. But maybe he gets to know himself. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

The Parallax View: Clit-path

November 13, 2021 12:01 - 55 minutes - 46 MB

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

The Parallax View: Leary vs Peterson

November 06, 2021 11:40 - 55 minutes - 46.8 MB

November 6th; Ep. 20 About the legitimacy of the ratiopaths and the final question: Who´s the final boss? (Hint: It´s not you!) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

The Parallax View: Final Bossgame: Leary vs Peterson

November 06, 2021 11:40 - 55 minutes - 46.8 MB

November 6th; Ep. 20 About the legitimacy of the ratiopaths and the final question: Who´s the final boss? (Hint: It´s not you!) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/podcast-c709ee4/message

Lecture by Cadell Last: 'Peterson situates love as a key to truth and meaningful revelation'

November 01, 2021 18:19 - 1 hour - 54.1 MB

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, Masculinity, God. You can find more about his work at cadelllast.com. His big new project is the phi...

The Parallax View: Descent and include

October 31, 2021 12:21 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MB

October 31th; Ep. 19 Some things are meant to happen, other´s don´t. Don´t you worry. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

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