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By Andrew SweenySociety & Culture Philosophy

Parallax episodes

September 11, 2023 Love or Die #4: A Conversation Series with Marc Gafni - Sabbatai, Sevi, Sara, and the Messiah
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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 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.
Website Dr. Marc Gafni: http://www.marcgafni.com
Your Unique Self: the Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment (book):
http://bit.ly/3FkFhli
A Return to Eros: the Radical Experience of Being Fully Alive (book):
https://bit.ly/3XRCA28
1 hr 10 min
September 09, 2023 The Parallax View #100: Sloterdijk´s Dream
Tom and Andrew ramble about Marshall McLuhan reading texts, Lacan´s Real and Peterson´s Ordeal
52 min
September 05, 2023 Sweeny vs Bard #56 - Back in Black
After 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
1 hr 8 min
September 02, 2023 The Parallax View #99: Zombie ideas
We are on a shooting range: We-Spaces, meaning crisis, postmodernism, metamodernism, time between worlds, sangha and spirituality.
1 hr 15 min
September 02, 2023 Kulturwang #7: Thot-GPT
About cringe Tik Tok Dances, and the female urge to expose themselves
55 min
September 01, 2023 Parallax Academy # 17 - David Cayley and Bonnitta Roy on Ivan Illich - Friendship in the network age
This 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 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 Alderlore Insight Center and curates wickedly provocative and seriously surprising conversations at The Pop-UP School.David Cayley is a Toronto-based Canadian writer and broadcaster who is known for documenting the philosophy of prominent thinkers of the 20th century - Ivan Illich, Northrop Frye, George Grant, and Rene Girard. His work has been broadcast on CBC Radio One's programme Ideas. He is the author of man books, including the recent biography Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey.
2 hr 1 min
August 26, 2023 Kulturwang #6 : The Bodycount Identity
Masha and Tom dig into Baracks and Ninas bodycount and try to find out if the womens identity is defined by whom she is dating.

1 hr 11 min
August 19, 2023 The Parallax View #98: In Taylor we trust
Tom 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.
54 min
August 05, 2023 The Parallax View #97: Lacan and stuff
The 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.
1 hr 3 min
August 02, 2023 Bonnitta Roy - The Convivial Life - Full conversation
Check 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, September 10th and will continue every Sunday for the month of September. It will include prerecorded lectures, live Zoom sessions and campfire community sessions. For more information and join us in the learning and conviviality
57 min