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In this weeks episode: Layman Pascal as the 'Liminal Web´s' MVP, the protestant dogma of averting your eyes when it´s right in front of you, Gurdjieff´s mindtricks & the art of dying, Ukraine & accepting the unacceptable, and of course spaceships.

In which Andrew wants to get cancelled, invents "spiritual wokeism", talks about the Intellectual Deep Web, and gets corrected by Aleister Crowley.

Parallax Spiritual Book Club Presents a dialogue with Marc Gafni  

A call for the crazy ones - the artists & magickians - You can quote them, disagree with them,  glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them  because they change things

Jim Rutt was Former Chairman Santa Fe Institute, is Co-initiator of the GameB community, and host of the popular podcast the Jim Rutt Show

We are were talking about complexity, catastrophes, competition in relationship to Game A and Game B. How to deal with complex systems? How efficacious are we actually? How to deal with inevitable catastrophes? And how to deal with our inbuild drive to compete?

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This one has a bend to it. Musings on Old hags, prophecy, and metamodernism

Prof. Timotheus Vermeulen, Dr. Robin van der Acker and Dr. Alison Gibbons wrote on the cultural condition known as Metamodernism. We are talking about the attributes and characteristics of Metamodernism, Covid and new concepts of time, the problems of the media-landscape, devices of literature and commonalities with other post-postmodern theories.

Parallax Spiritual Book Club Presents a dialogue with Layman Pascal and Andrew Sweeny on Crazy Wisdom.     Layman Pascal is an author and host of the Podcast THE INTEGRAL STAGE. He is also a public speaker, nondual theologian and yoga & meditation teacher—and so many other things.    

The Parallax spiritual book club is every Sunday 8pm CET on Zoom: SIGN UP HERE  https://parallax-media.eu/bookclub/parallax-spiritual-book-club 

A survey of texts from mystical, tantric, and non dual traditions—east and west.  A experimental class and a ‘lectio divina’ reading group, that aims develop a non-sectarian community of learners interested in the ‘hidden traditions’.  We will begin by discussing the 9 Yana system of The Nyingma Lineage of Vajrayana Buddhism, while studying theistic and non-theistic views. We will then move to western mystical traditions with reference to the first books of Genesis, Carl Jung’s ‘Answer to Job’, and Meister Eckhart. Finally, we will move east to the Indian Tantric and Advaita masters including Nisargadatta Maharaj and Ramakrishna; and then far east to Zen and Taoism. Finally, we will look at some of the great crazy wisdom masters of the 20th Century, beginning with George Gurdjieff, to controversial 20th Century masters like Chogyam Trungpa and Osho. The class will not be academic in spirit but rather aims to create an open community of dialogue with these texts.  It will include some basic meditation and inquiry, have the occasional special guests, and there will be breakout rooms for discussion.  It is open for anybody who is interested in deep meditation, contemplative traditions, and non-ordinary views of existence.

There is only one viable solution to the meaning crisis, to the pickle we are in, and to the multitude of informational, environmental, political, economical problems. Only one.