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Our thoughts on the queen´s passing

You can also listen to Samuel Barbers Adagio for Strings and mourn the collapse of the west instead.

A dialogos with Andrew Sweeny

A conversation with Baker, musician, and philosopher Stephen Lewis about the next arc of civilisation after the supernova death of liberalism and social democracy.

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Time is broken, narcissism is the consequence. Everybody has a take, infinitely populating the space through hegelian laws. It´s the death of the (time-)commons. Fake tits, fakes horrors, fake experiences prevail against real ones. The image and the story counts. We live in divisive times, because time is divided, there are only bubbles of time we inhabit, we have lost the shared spirit. The distance is more important than the closeness.

Andrew gives an overview on his new projects, which leads into the emergence of the topic of post-egoic will, which in turn leads in into some discussion of some rules of the process, which leads in into some ruminations about everything post-postmodern, which leads to some other topics, ad infinitium, till we reach the point of no return with an exploration the archetype of the great and benevolent whore, and what it means to be a libertine.

A new series of video essays based on my summer reading of the 700-page spiritual classic, entitled Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism by the anonymous author whom everybody now knows was Valentine Tomberg.

This is not a summary of Tomberg’s work per say, but rather my own idiosyncratic reading of the Tarot partly inspired by Tomberg’s work. This series aims to explore Tarot symbolism—and is a contemplation of the meanings of the main archetypes presented in the Tarot card deck.  As a longtime practitioner of Tantric Buddhism, an intensely symbolic and, dare I say, magical path—I’m on a journey to understand the symbolism of western esoteric systems. Tarot and Tomberg’s book seemed like a fun place to start.

Alexander Bard, Alex Ebert, Cadell Last and Thomas Hamelryck join the Parallax View for a discussion extraordinaire, that oscillates between archetypology and peak-cringe, surface and deep meaning, elders and the initiation rites for the young.

The Meaning Apocalypse:  A conversation between Andrew Sweeny and Owen Cox

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