Parallax
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Heterodox magazine for philosophy, spirituality and psychology
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Parallax lecture 002: DIGITAL SHAMANISM with Andrew Sweeny
November 08, 2020 15:23 - 1 hour - 94.1 MBFor more information: https://www.parallax-magazin.de/lectures/002 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Parallax lectures 001: DIGITAL LIBIDO with Alexander Bard
November 08, 2020 15:20 - 2 hours - 111 MBFor more information: https://www.parallax-magazin.de/lectures/r2x4y2d6y0y9p7twqe0d1cllc34bfd-jrtez --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Gregg Henriques in Conversation: A Tour Of The Cathedral
November 07, 2020 12:11 - 1 hour - 83.9 MBA magical tour of Dr. Gregg's cathedral of thought and a good primer for his ideas. Links: Parallax Magazine Support Parallax on Patreon Gregg Henriques's Website Dr. Gregg Henriques is Professor of Graduate Psychology at James Madison University in the Combined-Integrated Doctoral Program in Clinical and School Psychology. Dr. Henriques received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Vermont and did his post-doctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. H...
John Vervaeke and Christopher Mastropietro: Reinventio #5 Philia
October 16, 2020 10:44 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBHere is the fifth of our ‘reinventio’ series—the latin word which means to both invent and discover. We discuss the purpose and function of philia or sacred friendship, how a real friend differs from ordinary ‘buddies’ or ‘colleagues’. One of the most touching and deep conversations I’ve had with these amazing scholars, human beings, and friends. John Vervaeke is a professor at the University of Toronto and the creator of the popular online YouTube Series ‘Awakening from The Meaning Crisi...
Parallax vs Technosocial - Alchemy and Exodus
September 27, 2020 18:14 - 1 hour - 65.8 MBOwen Cox and Daniel Fraga are the visionaries behind Techosocial, where they interview leading thinkers from the fringes of the internet, exploring how new technologies will reshape human societies and allow humans to redesign themselves. Me and Tom Amarque are working to make Parallax a new platform for great young thinkers such as these guys. We had a wonderful introductory conversation about the new paradigm, the current psycho-spiritual landscape, and how to escape the dying structures...
A conversation with J.P. Marceau: Catholic and Buddhist symbolism
August 11, 2020 20:09 - 1 hour - 63.9 MBJ.P. Marceau is a philosopher and editor at Johnathan Pageau's 'The symbolic world': He is also part of John Vervaeke's 'Voices with Vervaeke' series. An expansive and deep conversation about Christian and Buddhist symbolism, Réne Girard and other things. DONATE ON PAYPAL Patreon Medium Rebel Wisdom Articles Twitter Facebook Intro music: Beautiful Machines by Andrew Sweeny --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
In conversation with John Vervaeke and Christopher Mastropietro #4: Reinventing Art
August 09, 2020 19:29 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBIs art moral? Why was Plato censorious of art? Does art have a political function? How is art educational? Should art and philosophy be combined? What is the difference between art and entertainment? Is art about individual or communal expression? How is art related to what John calls ‘dialogos’? Here we continue to ‘reinventio’—the latin word which means to both invent and discover— perennial and popular subjects. We discuss the purpose and function of art from various perspectives:...
John Vervaeke and Zach Stein #4: Reinventing Education and Social Justice
July 20, 2020 13:43 - 1 hour - 60.5 MBToday we are living in a period of paradigm shift—one which may be as dramatic as the shift to the axial age according to John, or even as big as the leap from a single-celled organism to the homo sapien, according to Zak! A wide ranging discussion about how to reinventio (invent and discover) social justice and education and to rescue human interactions from social media pathologies. How to change out relationships from the transactional to the dialogic—how to reinventio education and jus...
John Vervaeke and Christopher Mastropietro: Reinventing Beauty
June 04, 2020 14:43 - 1 hour - 64 MBHere we continue our conversation about ‘reinventio’—the latin word which means to both invent and discover. The main theme was reinventing beauty, but we spoke about soul, virtue, and faith. John also proposed reinventing argumentation, and came up with four propositions: Beauty is the sweet spot between suchness (intimacy) and moreness (transcendence) Beauty is the activity of philo-sophia Virtue is the beauty of wisdom Dialectic is the beautification of speech to conform to how we p...
John Vervaeke and Christopher Mastropietro: Reinventing Soul
May 16, 2020 15:44 - 1 hour - 109 MBAfter what John Vervaeke has called The Meaning Crisis we need to reinvent soul, faith, virtue, dialogue—all the perennial notions. An amazing three way conversation with John and Chris circling around the idea of the soul, where John suggests we creatively re-invent and rediscover soul. 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, philosophy, ...
Fabrice Midal: Meditation, Narcissism, and The French Art of not Giving a Fuck
May 10, 2020 12:10 - 1 hour - 51 MBFabrice Midal is hugely popular in the Francophone world with a best selling book that has been translated as ‘The French Art of Not giving a fuck’—but relatively unknown elsewhere. He is also the author of about twenty other books, which include a biography of Chogyam Trungpa, and various books about philosophy, art, poetry, chivalry and meditation. He is also the founder of a unique school of meditation called ‘L’École occidentale de méditation’—which teaches not just traditional buddhist...
What the coronavirus is telling us? In conversation with Bonnitta Roy and Jonathan Rowson
May 04, 2020 10:17 - 1 hour - 66.6 MBA wide ranging conversation loosely based on Bonnita Roy's new article ‘Corona: A tale of two systems’ on the Emerge website, which she calls a ‘holifesto’ or a holistic manifesto. Johathan Rowson queried the article, offered some possible criticism, and Bonnitta responded brilliantly. It was a wonderful conversation and a great pleasure to be in the presence of these great soulful intellects and systems thinkers. Links: Corona: A tale of Two Systems Part 1 Corona: A tale of Two Sys...
The last days on Earth and The Need for Poetry: A conversation with Joe Ross
April 26, 2020 15:51 - 1 hour - 50.3 MBJoe Ross: A great conversation with Poet and Friend Joe Ross. The poems he read were entitled: In Line, Interpolation, and Exit wound. Joe Ross is the author of over fourteen books of poetry, most recently, Last Days on Earth, (Dusie Press, 2019); History and its Making – The Making of History, (Bi-lingual French/English, Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2017); 1000 Folds, (Chax Press, 2014). He is the former Literary Editor of the arts bi-monthly The Washington Review from 19...
John Vervaeke and Zachary Stein: Kairos, Logos, and Post-Conventional Faith
April 19, 2020 17:12 - 1 hour - 60.8 MBIn this wide ranging conversation we discussed: Kairos and crisis, Civilisational adolescence, Piaget and stages of development, AI and caring Warm Data, The artist and the Prophet, The Bildung movement, Reintegration of the good the true and the beautiful, Post conventional morality, Faith and emergence, Post formal faith, The unattainable ideal, Serious play And so much more ... John Vervaeke is a professor at the University of Toronto and the creator of the popular online YouTube S...
In Conversation with Nora Bateson: Steve Bannon’s jacket, Walking on slippery rocks, and Covid 19
April 12, 2020 11:46 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBIn our wide ranging conversation we discussed: Her Steve Bannon jacket Gender and complexity Pain and Possibility Gregory Bateson Vulnerable systems The real and the blurring The fly in the bottle Addiction The relationship between science and the arts Double binds and paradoxes Where are we right now Multisensorial universe Walking on slippery rocks Where we are right now in Covid 19 Links An Ecology Of Mind- A Daughter's portrait of Gregory Bateson Directed by Nora Bateson ...
John Vervaeke and Zachary Stein: The war in heaven, the kitchen table, and thoughts of the heart
April 01, 2020 06:13 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBJohn 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, philosophy, religion, and the history of ideas. What makes Vervaeke special in my opinion is the breadth of his work, but his courage descend the ivory tower and talk to people ‘on the street’—and to exemplify his ideas. His hero is Socrates, and he embodies the living dialogue and courage that Socrat...
John Vervaeke and Christopher Mastropietro: Dialogos and Extasis
March 25, 2020 19:36 - 1 hour - 73.2 MBThis wide ranging conversation includes: insights on the meaning of the present Covid_19 crisis; a discussion of John and Christopher’s recent essay (Gnosis in the Second Person: Responding to the Meaning Crisis in the Socratic Quest of Authentic Dialogue.); a discussion on the meaning of socratic dialogue and ecstatic epiphanies - which we tried to exemplify in this conversation; and much more. John Vervaeke is a professor at the University of Toronto and the creator of the popular online ...
Jonathan Rowson Part 2: Jordan Peterson, Chess, and Perspectiva
March 22, 2020 10:42 - 46 minutes - 34.8 MBIn this crazy times the forward and tactical thinking of a chess grandmaster and a great humanitarian might help us a little. This is the first part of a two part conversation with Jonathan Rowson. Topics included chess, ecology, technology, spirituality, religion and spirituality, the education meta crisis, post traumatic grown, the value of disequilibrium, the parables of Jesus, and the tiny elephant in the room: Coronavirus. Bio: Dr. Jonathan Rowson is co-founder and Director of...
Jonathan Rowson Part 1: Coronavirus and The Moves that Matter
March 18, 2020 18:58 - 56 minutes - 42.9 MBIn this crazy times the forward and tactical thinking of a chess grandmaster and a great humanitarian might help us a little. This is the first part of a two part conversation. Topics included chess, ecology, technology, spirituality, religion and spirituality, the education meta crisis, post traumatic grown, the value of disequilibrium, the parables of Jesus, and the tiny elephant in the room: Coronavirus. Bio: Dr. Jonathan Rowson is co-founder and Director of Perspectiva. He was until re...
Jamie Wheal: America and The Upsidedown
March 17, 2020 11:19 - 1 hour - 47 MBDONATE ON PAYPAL Patreon Medium Rebel Wisdom Articles Twitter Facebook I wanted to talk to Jamie Wheal about American culture, spirituality, and history. About the strange paradoxes of American, and about his search for the American soul, in the times of 'The Upsidedown'—as the TV show Stranger things calls it. American is in the upsidedown, we both agreed. But Jamie transmitted his enthusiasm and hopes for the American experiment. In our wide ranging conversation we discussed: Th...
John Vervaeke and Zachary Stein: Education and The Divine Double
March 11, 2020 14:39 - 1 hour - 60.5 MBDONATE ON PAYPAL Patreon Medium Rebel Wisdom Articles Twitter Facebook Intro music: Beautiful Machines, by Andrew Sweeny 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, philosophy, religion, and the history of ideas. What makes Vervaeke special in my opinion is the breadth of his work, but his courage descend the ivory tower and talk to peopl...
Guy Sengstock: Wandering between Worlds
March 01, 2020 09:43 - 1 hour - 65.2 MBA lateral and very personal conversation with the founder of 'The circling institute' and close friend and associate to John Vervaeke. Keywords: Listening/Hearkening; Disclosure ; Wandering between worlds; The birth of plenty; Circling and wonder; Intimacy; The sacred and the divine; Aletheia; Heidegger; John Vervaeke; Christopher Mastropietro; Alexander Bard Guy's Bio:https://guysengstock.wordpress.com/aboutme/ DONATE ON PAYPAL Patreon Medium Rebel Wisdom Articles Twitter Facebook...
John Vervaeke 2: Wisdom and Rationality
February 25, 2020 14:12 - 1 hour - 73.4 MBDONATE ON PAYPAL Patreon Medium Rebel Wisdom Articles Twitter Facebook Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: Patreon Medium Rebel Wisdom Articles Twitter Facebook Intro music: Beautiful Machines, by Andrew Sweeny 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, philosophy, religion, and the history of ideas. What makes Vervaeke special in my opi...
Bonnitta Roy: How to change the world
February 23, 2020 02:41 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBA wonderful conversation with the process philosopher and transpersonal psychologist Bonnitta Roy. Some of the topics covered: New architectures of mind; Holistic complexity theory; Emergence and process philosophy; Deep Code Protocols; Self organisation; New educational models; The 4 selves; Due Diligence and Social Media; Polarised discourse; Coherent collectives and the three legged stool; Narrative vs Mental minds; Belonging vs Ranking types; Potentials and affordances; How to chan...
Zak Stein Part 2: The Death and Beautification of the World
February 17, 2020 20:34 - 1 hour - 45.4 MBThis is the second part of deep conversation with Dr. Zak Stein. Zak Stein is philosopher of education working at the interface of psychology, metaphysics, and politics. He has published two books, including Education in Time Between Worlds, along with dozens of articles. This writing was done as he worked co-founding a non-profit and think tank, as well as teaching graduate students at Harvard, and consulting with technology start-ups. Zak is a long time meditator, musician and caregiv...
Zak Stein Part 1: Music and Tragedy Between Worlds
February 16, 2020 17:25 - 46 minutes - 35.3 MBThis is the first part of mindblowing conversation I had with Dr. Zak Stein. Trigger warning. We go really deep really fast. Zak Stein is philosopher of education working at the interface of psychology, metaphysics, and politics. He has published two books, including Education in Time Between Worlds, along with dozens of articles. This writing was done as he worked co-founding a non-profit and think tank, as well as teaching graduate students at Harvard, and consulting with technology...
John Vervaeke: The religion that is no religion
January 26, 2020 06:30 - 1 hour - 67.9 MBJohn 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, philosophy, religion, and the history of ideas. What makes Vervaeke special in my opinion is the breadth of his work, but his courage descend the ivory tower and talk to people ‘on the street’—and to exemplify his ideas. His hero is Socrates, and he embodies the living dialogue and courage that Socrat...
The Divine Double: Christopher Mastropietro
December 25, 2019 20:36 - 1 hour - 46.8 MBI was first introduced to Christopher Mastropietro by Peter Limberg for his series on Letter.com, 'impossible conversations'. Our first 'impossible conversation can be found here’: https://letter.wiki/conversation/232 Christopher is John Vervaeke’s writing and research partner and co-author of ‘Zombies in Western Culture: A Twentieth Century Crisis’. A great book which I have used for undergraduate classes in Paris We never got around to talking about ‘The Zombie Apocalypse’ or ‘Joker’...
What does it mean to be a man? Discussions with Ole Bjerg
November 17, 2019 12:30 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBOle Bjerg is an associate professor at the Copenhagen Business school. He writes in his presentation: “My research interests circle around a diagnosis of contemporary capitalism. I am currently interested in the simple question: What is money? The assumption is that money is not a given and constant phenomenon. Money changes as the structure of capitalism changes. In my current research I am exploring how the radical transformations of banking and financial markets over the last 30-40 yea...
Dr Arne Rubinstein: Rites of Passage and the Ladder of Life
August 14, 2019 10:33 - 58 minutes - 54.6 MBDr Arne Rubinstein is an expert on Rites of Passage and adolescent development, with 30 years experience as a medical doctor, counsellor, mentor, speaker and workshop facilitator. The programs, seminars and programs he’s helped to develop have been attended by over 100,000 people globally and are designed to support boys and girls to successfully make a safe, healthy transition to adulthood, with a particular focus on creating coming of age Rites of Passage. Dr Arne is the proud father of tw...
Andrew Sweeny and Stephen Lewis on Rudolf Steiner: The spirit of the machine
July 27, 2019 11:10 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBThis is the 5th in a series of talks with Stephen Lewis, in which we discuss Rudolf Steiner and his theories of Lucifer and Ahriman, among other things. Podcast version can be heard on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/podcast-c709ee4 Stephen Lewis is owns an organic bakery in Newfoundland, Canada, is a singer-songwriter, and real philosopher—he is also a bit of a mystic by my estimation. He has all kinds of theories about art, economics, sex and society, which you will find are completely uniqu...
Andrew Sweeny and Stephen Lewis discuss René Girard: The defence of the innocent victim
July 04, 2019 13:37 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBThis is the 4th in a series of talks with Stephen Lewis, in which we discuss Réne Girard and his theories of the Scapegoat and their broader implications. Stephen Lewis is owns an organic bakery in Newfoundland, Canada, and is a singer-songwriter, and real philosopher—he is also a bit of a mystic by my estimation. He has all kinds of theories about art, economics, sex and society, which you will find are completely unique. I've been talking to him since the late 90's about all kinds of...
Mountains and Rivers: Gender and Complementarity
July 01, 2019 13:46 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBMy thoughts on the re-integration of polarity as the 'next step'. With reference to Ivan Illich's book in Gender: https://books.google.fr/books/about/Gender.html?id=ZyVHAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Ronan Harrington in Conversation: Vulnerability, truth, and the collective superego
July 01, 2019 12:27 - 1 hour - 66.5 MBRonan is a leading voice in transformational change, supporting leaders to transform themselves and their organisations to become the success stories of our complex new world. Ronan is also a leading figure within the Burning Man community, giving the keynote on new politics at their Global Leadership Summit in 2017. He writes and speaks widely about the prospect of a more visionary politics, guest editing a series for Open Democracy. He is also an Associate at Perspectiva, a research insti...
Jordan Peterson Part 4: Sweeny vs Peterson and Zizek
July 01, 2019 12:17 - 34 minutes - 32.3 MBA audio essay on the recent debate between Jordan Peterson and Slavov Zizek, based 3 medium essays I wrote about these two men --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Jordan Peterson Part 3: Why the polarised reaction to JBP? A conversation with Rebel Wisdom.
July 01, 2019 11:59 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MBWhy does Jordan Peterson create such strong and polarised reactions? Andrew Sweeny has written many articles examining Peterson's impact on the culture. In this Skype chat with David Fuller, director of two documentaries about Jordan Peterson, he explains how the reaction to Peterson is largely due to the way that Peterson is reviving a perspective that many thought had been banished forever. It accompanies this Medium article - Jordan Peterson and the Dark Tide of Mysticism: https://medium...
Jordan Peterson Part 2: Sex, and The Patriarchy
July 01, 2019 09:43 - 34 minutes - 31 MBSource Article here: https://medium.com/@andrewpgsweeny/jordan-peterson-sex-and-the-patriarchy-a39ad3902946 Rebel Wisdom Articles by Andrew Sweeny: https://medium.com/rebel-wisdom --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
Jordan Peterson Part 1: The Shadow and The Conscious Man
July 01, 2019 09:30 - 20 minutes - 18.3 MB“Peterson is problematic to practically everybody, which is interesting. He is problematic to traditionalists, because he doesn’t go to church. He’s problematic to modernists because he is interested in religion. He is problematic to post-modernism because he values hierarchy. He’s problematic to the extreme right and the extreme left because he is so reasonable.“ “Trump to me represents the unconscious Man, the shadow of Western civilization. When Trump was elected there was this void...
Stephen Lewis and Andrew Sweeny in conversation part 3
July 01, 2019 09:19 - 1 hour - 70.8 MBThis is the 3rd in a series of talks with Stephen Lewis. In this conversation we dare critique certain aspects of feminism. On a broader level, we discuss how men and women can be sovereign in the face of redundancy in the meaning crisis. Stephen Lewis is owns an organic bakery in Newfoundland, Canada, and is a singer-songwriter, and real philosopher—he is also a bit of a mystic by my estimation. He has all kinds of theories about art, economics, sex and society, which you will find ...
Stephen Lewis and Andrew Sweeny in conversation part 2
July 01, 2019 09:14 - 57 minutes - 51.8 MBThis is the second in a series of talks with Stephen Lewis. I have included his song 'Nothing has been lost' in the intro (the entire can be heard here. https://slewis1.bandcamp.com/album/anthems-for-a-failed-state Stephen Lewis is owns an organic bakery in Newfoundland, Canada, and is a singer-songwriter, and real philosopher—he is also a bit of a mystic by my estimation. He has all kinds of theories about art, economics, sex and society, which you will find are completely unique. I'v...
Stephen Lewis and Andrew Sweeny in conversation part 1
July 01, 2019 09:03 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBStephen Lewis is owns an organic bakery in Newfoundland, Canada, and is a singer-songwriter, and real philosopher. And by philosopher I mean someone who actually thinks in a deep and revelatory way—he is also a bit of a mystic by my estimation. He has all kinds of theories about art, economics, sex and society, which you will find are completely unique. I've been talking to him since the late 90's about all kinds of stuff, and he's definitely one most acutely and deeply intelligent people...
Darin Stevenson: Aliens, insects, and an operating system that works like our minds
July 01, 2019 08:51 - 1 hour - 76.8 MBDarin Stevenson is my facebook friend, other than that I don’t know a lot about him. He doesn’t share personal information online, but rather his writing and ideas. He is always fascinating, radically intelligent, and provocative - perhaps is one of the best social critics and comedians I know - and also a great guitarist. He writes about nature and machines, representations and reality - language and rhetoric among other things. He has some wild ideas about how to save our ecosystems, s...
Lateral Conversations with Tom Amarque
July 01, 2019 08:40 - 1 hour - 67.1 MBTom Amarque invited me on his podcast Lateral Conversations to talk about the Intellectual Dark Web. Here is the podcast site: http://www.tom-amarque.de/tom/ Here are his show notes: I came to know Andrew Sweeny becuase of a series of articles about Jordan Peterson and the 'Intellectual Dark Web' he posted on Medium, which were not only excellently written, but also tried to to explore the cultureal shift in which that movement appeared. We both share the sentiment - as a lot of peopl...
An interlude of poetry
July 01, 2019 08:25 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MBSome poems from 2016 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message
My Landlord: Meditations on Leonard Cohen
July 01, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 98.7 MBAfter Cohen died last year, I spent about a month listening to and writing about his music. This turned into a short book, which I have now made into a video podcast. This is part 1 of a 3 part series. For those who prefer to read you can find the text on my medium blog here: https://medium.com/@andrewpgsweeny/my-landlord-c16a096ee2e9 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message