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DescriptionA deep dive into a strange and luminous literary encounter: Henry Miller on Arthur Rimbaud.In this conversation, we explore Miller’s short but intense meditation on Rimbaud—the teenage visionary who burned through language, identity, and the limits of experience itself. A confrontation with genius, madness, exile, and the cost of mystical vision.Links🔗 Owen Cox — Dark Renaissancehttps://darkrenaissance.com🔗 Parallaxhttps://parallax-media.comAbout Owen CoxOwen Cox is a writer and cultural critic associated with Dark Renaissance, a platform exploring philosophy, art, and the deeper undercurrents of Western and post-Western thought. His work moves between literature, metaphysics, and cultural analysis, often focusing on neglected or transgressive figures.About Andrew SweenyAndrew Sweeny is a poet, musician, and editor at Parallax, a media platform dedicated to philosophy, art, and cultural transformation. His work explores the intersection of poetry, sound, and myth, engaging with themes of eros, symbolism, and the inner life of artistic creation.

A Parallax conversation on The Meaning of America, celebrating Max Borders’ upcoming course and exploring America as ideal, shadow, empire, and future. With Andrew Sweeny, Max Borders, and Owen Cox, this discussion moves through revolution, liberty, collectivism, Europe, myth, and the strange paradox of America as both promise and danger.Join Max Borders’ course, The Meaning of America, on April 12.https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/the-meaning-of-america-with-max-borders

Andrew and Tom pay their respect.

A Parallax conversation on The Meaning of America, celebrating Max Borders’ upcoming course and exploring America as ideal, shadow, empire, and future. With Andrew Sweeny, Max Borders, and Owen Cox, this discussion moves through revolution, liberty, collectivism, Europe, myth, and the strange paradox of America as both promise and danger.Join Max Borders’ course, The Meaning of America, on April 12.https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/the-meaning-of-america-with-max-borders

Learn more about the course and register here:https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/integral-tarotAndrew Sweeny speaks with Tarot teacher Marianne Costa about the upcoming Integral Tarot course at Parallax.This is the third Tarot course Marianne Costa has offered with Parallax. In this conversation, she introduces the structure and ideas behind the new course, which explores the Tarot de Marseille as a complete symbolic system, integrating the Major Arcana, Minor Arcana, and Court cards into a coherent practice of reading and interpretation.Previous Parallax courses with Marianne Costa:Tarot, The Real Deal – A Journey Through the Major Arcanahttps://www.parallax-media.com/past-courses/tarot-the-real-dealCracking the Code of the Minor Arcana – Part 1https://www.parallax-media.com/past-courses/cracking-the-code-of-the-minor-arcana-part-1

Raven Connolly and Owen Cox join the Parallax View to talk about the issues of Europe and it´s underlying themes

Iain McGilchrist, Marc Gafni & Zak Stein | The Return of Value and the Sacred | Part 2Zak Stein moderates an intense and wide-ranging conversation between Dr. Iain McGilchrist and Dr. Marc Gafni. The dialogue spans the sacred nature of story, the loss of value and eros, the nature of evil, and the deep structures shaping culture today. In Part 2, the conversation turns explicitly toward the question of value itself — whether the sacred is intrinsic to reality or merely projected, and what is at stake in that distinction.Iain McGilchrist is a British psychiatrist, literary scholar, and one of the most important philosophical voices of our time. He is best known for *The Master and His Emissary* and *The Matter With Things*, where he argues that the left and right hemispheres of the brain attend to the world in fundamentally different ways, with massive consequences for civilization. His work bridges neuroscience, philosophy, art, and depth psychology, offering a vision of human consciousness grounded in attention, embodiment, and reverence.Dr. Marc Gafni is a visionary philosopher, spiritual teacher, and social theorist. A former Orthodox rabbi with a doctorate from Oxford University, he is the co-founder of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion and a leading voice in the articulation of “cosmo-erotic humanism.” His books include *Your Unique Self*, *A Return to Eros*, and *Radical Kabbalah*. Gafni’s work fuses Jewish mysticism, integral theory, and Western philosophy to explore the nature of self, eros, and value at the evolutionary edge of human identity and spirituality.Zak Stein is a Harvard-trained education and transformation philosopher known for his work on developmental ethics, meta-crisis, and the future of human learning.#IainMcGilchrist #MarcGafni #ZakStein #Eros #Story #MeaningCrisis #IntegralPhilosophy #TheMasterAndHisEmissary #CosmoEroticHumanism

Death and Rebirth of EuropeA recorded conversation between members of Parallax and Dark Renaissance Productions discussing the idea of Europe’s decline and the possibility of transformation.The conversation also relates to a longer-term collaborative project planned for Paris in 2026.Timestamps00:00 – Introduction and context02:10 – Where the idea “death and rebirth of Europe” comes from06:45 – Europe as culture, history, and myth14:30 – Sense of decline and loss of orientation23:20 – Tradition, modernity, and rupture33:40 – Is Europe already dead?43:10 – What “rebirth” could mean54:00 – Future conversations and Paris project1:01:30 – Closing remarks

January 14th 2026

Tom and Andrew discuss Camille Paglia´ Sexual Personae

DescriptionDr. Gafni is interviewed by Andrew Sweeny. The central question: How to go beyond a mere tragic view of life? Invitationhttps://www.parallax-media.com/courses/pretragic-tragic-and-posttragicThe course includes three weekly recorded lectures with Q&A and three weekly Digital Campfire sessions, where practices and inquiries are introduced and the material is reflected on in community.Start date: Sunday, January 25Time: 8:00pm CET · 2:00pm EST · 11:00am PSTPrice: €300 / €100 tiers