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February, 20th 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   Dr. Marc Gafni’s Biography: https://www.marcgafni.com/dr-marc-gafni-biographyParallax Spiritual Book Club: The Parallax spiritual book club is every Sunday 8pm CET on Zoom: https://parallax-media.eu/bookclub/parallax-spiritual-book-club

February, 12th 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.

January, 22th 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.

Alexander Bard: Alexander Bard is a Swedish author, lecturer, artist, songwriter, music producer, TV personality, philosopher and political activist, and one of the founders of the Syntheist movement along with his co-author Jan Söderqvist. His books include “The Futurica Trilogy”, “Digital Libido” & “Syntheism”.   Thomas Hamelryck is a Lecturer and Researcher based in Copenhagen. His academic research interests revolve around Machine learning, Bayesian statistics, Protein Structure Prediction, Probabilistic Programming, Deep Learning. He is also an enthusiast of Réne Girard, and denies all rumours that he was once the keyboard player for Depeche Mode.    Andrew Sweeny: Andrew Sweeny is a writer, editor, blogger, Youtuber, published poet, podcaster, musician, and teacher. He has worked as a touring musician and put out several albums, published a book of poetry, and animated two popular podcasts and a philosophical blog on Medium and now on Parallax. He Lectures at Sciences Po, in Paris, France.   Cadell Last: is a philosopher with an interest in anthropology, history and psychoanalysis, and the author of Global Brain Singularity, and Sex, Masculinity, God. He is currently working on various philosophical projects, including a book project with Alexander Bard, and an online academy called Philosophy Portal.   About the Strange Attractor Series  In the last couple of years, we have witnessed the emergence of different meta-models, theories, and future visions which try to go beyond the worldview of postmodernism: a strange attractor that seems to run on new and exciting algorithms. But what—if anything—do all of these models and movements have in common? Is there a shared deep-structure that is expressing itself, not only in new and more complex ways of thinking and cognition, but also in geopolitics, science, industry, religion, ecology, sexuality, parenting, culture, technology, architecture, the arts—and in every other area of contemporary life. Is there a strange attractor that emerges after postmodernity? What are its shape and characteristics? What new and exciting vistas and opportunities do these new vistas open up for us? Can they contribute to solving the existential problems of the current meta-crisis? What are the moral and ethical injunctions that we could infer from the present emergence of these meta-tribes.   In this Roundtable-series - hosted by PARALLAX - we invite a multitude of ‘post-postmodern’ pioneer—thinkers, psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, educators, economists, and artists—to have an interdisciplinary discussion about the essence of Post-Postmodernity – given there is such a thing. More precisely, this podcast-series is an experiment which seeks to find out whether these movements and models after Postmodernity have something in common. Can these movements leave their respective bubbles and contribute something essential to the development of the world we live in? That is our primary question.