Parallax

By Andrew SweenySociety & Culture Philosophy

Parallax episodes

May 15, 2024 Sweeny vs Bard with Tim Pickerill - Vajrayana Buddhism
Bard queries Pickerill and Sweeny about the wonderous practice lineages of Tantric Buddhism and Crazy Wisdom Masters.
1 hr 24 min
May 09, 2024 The Parallax View #129: Tantric money
Niklas Limacher joins the pod to talk about new ways to handle old problems
1 hr 32 min
April 25, 2024 The Parallax View #128: Last ones
Will AI replace our elders?
45 min
April 21, 2024 Sweeny vs Bard #61 - With Max Borders - The Grey Robes vs The Zufists
A continued conversation between Sweeny, Bard, And Borders about religion, sex, and civilization.
`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 to the mission, morality, and meaning of the “Grey Tribe. Borders is founder and Executive Director of Social Evolution, an organization dedicated to liberating humanity and solving social problems through innovation. He is also co-founder of the event experience Future Frontiers, which succumbed to COVID in 2020 after eight years.

Alexander Bard is a Swedish author, lecturer, artist, songwriter, music producer, TV personality, philosopher and political activist, and one of the founders of the Synthesist movement along with his co-author Jan Söderqvist. His books include “The Futurica Trilogy”, “Digital Libido” & “Synthetism”.
Links:
Parallax Mighty Networks
Parallax Academy
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1 hr 24 min
April 18, 2024 The Parallax View #127: The Silence of God
Tom and Andrew continue their discussion of religion, philosophy and psychology
1 hr 12 min
April 17, 2024 Love or Die #11: A Conversation Series with Marc Gafni - The Tree of Life - Part 6 - Yesod
Andrew 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!
Links:
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-academy-calendar
Dr. Marc Gafni: http://www.marcgafni.com
Radical Kabbalah: https://www.marcgafni.com/main-teachings/radical-kabbalah/
Bio:
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 twenty-five books, including the award-winning Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, as well as Orthodox rabbinic ordination.
He teaches on the cutting edge of philosophy and spirit in the West, with the aim of participating in the articulation of what Dr. Gafni together with Dr. Zak Stein and colleagues are calling CosmoErotic Humanism. At the core of CosmoErotic Humanism is what Dr. Gafni and Dr. Stein are calling ‘First Principles and First Values,’ Anthro-Ontology and a “Universal Grammar of Value.” This shared story rooted in First Principles and First Values can then serve as the matrix for a global ethos for a global civilization.
Dr. Gafni is the Co-Founder and Co-President of the Office for the Future, the Center for World Religion and Philosophy and the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. At the core of their shared missions is the articulation and delivery into culture of a Great Library - in multiple forms - which participates in evolving the source code of consciousness and culture in response to the Meta Crisis.
1 hr 24 min
April 13, 2024 John Vervaeke and Christopher Mastropietro: The Philosophical Silk Road - Part 1
I caught up with John and Chris and explored John's change of perspective from 'the religion that is not a religion' to the philosophical Silk Road. How do we create a meaningful passage between the religions and those who have fallen out of religion? A heartfelt dia-logos and the start of a longer conversation on the subject.
Links:
https://vervaekefoundation.org/
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
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Bio
John Vervaeke
For 28 years, cognitive scientist Dr. John Vervaeke has given his life to pioneering the scientific study of wisdom and transformation. His discoveries blend ancient and modern ways of knowing—bringing together philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, information processing, linguistics, and studies of religion.
His Awakening From the Meaning Crisis series has earned him global notoriety and his academic work has gained the respect of the scholarly and scientific community. His lectures and discussions have been viewed by millions.
This cognitive explanation of meaning-making has attracted leaders in many disciplines to the work. His teachings have served as a clarion call, around which practices are being honed and communities are being built that are having a proven ability to bring transformation and meaning to many
Christopher Mastropietro
Is Executive Director of the Vervaeke foundation. He is a writer, instructor, and former public policy advisor. An experienced manager and team lead, he worked for a decade in the Ontario Public Service and Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner.
He is a co-author of several publications related to philosophy, dialogue, and the Meaning Crisis, including Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis (Open Book Publishers, 2017) and the forthcoming Awakening from the Meaning Crisis (Story Grid, 2024).
1 hr 28 min
April 11, 2024 The Parallax View #126: The strange Death of Christianity
Tom and Andrew ramble also about Nietzsche and limp-d*ck approaches to the meta-crisis
51 min
April 04, 2024 The Parallax View #125: The 98 rules of drinking
Tom and Andrew ramble about various aspects of alcohol
54 min
March 29, 2024 Sweeny vs Bard #60 with Roberto Palacio - Anxiety in the Digital Age
Why are we so depressed in the digital age? A deep discussion about what Roberto Palacio calls the age of anxiety?
Roberto Palacio (1967), MPhil., Colombian philosopher and essayist. JAICA Scholar (Government of Japan, University of Tsukuba). For more than two decades he has worked in academic philosophy, in the fields of human ethology and the philosophy of language at the Universidad de los Andes, before building a career as an essayist and popular philosopher through his organization Seminarios La Vida Examinada. He is a contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books, Philosophical Salon, El Malpensante magazine and Arcadia among others. Since 2019 Palacio has belonged to the Intellectual Deep Web global network of thinkers and popular philosophers, run by the Swedish philosopher Alexander Bard. At FILBO 2023, he released La era de la ansiedad through the Ariel imprint of Planeta publishers; this work reflects on the possibility of overcoming the anxiety of our times through philosophical reflection.
Links:
The Age of Anxiety:
https://www.amazon.com/era-ansiedad-ROBERTO-PALACIO/dp/9878318613
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-academy-calendar
Alexander Bard's Books:
Process and Event, (2023)
The Futurica Trilogy (2012)
Syntheism – Creating God in the Internet Age (2014)
Digital Libido - Sex, power and violence in the network society (2017)
1 hr 37 min