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- Yesterday1h 14m
Sweeny vs Bard #68 - The Path to Enlightenment part 1
In this first conversation in a new series on enlightenment, mysticism, and civilization, Andrew Sweeny and Alexander Bard explore the relationship between enlightenment, ancient spirituality, and digital culture.The discussion moves through Peter Kingsley, Jung, Gurdjieff, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Göbekli Tepe, mountain civilizations versus river civilizations, shamanism, altered states, René Girard, mimetic contagion, social media, and the collapse of symbolic depth in modernity.Themes explored include:• Enlightenment as wholeness rather than salvation• The mystical origins of Western philosophy• Semi-nomadic and mountain cultures as sources of ecstatic spirituality• Göbekli Tepe and ritual consciousness before agriculture• Shamanism as transformation of perspective• Jung’s *Red Book* as initiatory descent• Girard, scapegoating, and digital mass psychology• Gurdjieff and the idea that modern humanity lives asleep• The return of mysticism during periods of civilizational collapseMore Sweeny vs Bard:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuseeco8fLSmX1HUEmKV0WFecRg2Z1G6S&si=6e1Ry-WfechSySo6More Substack articles by Andrew Sweeny:https://substack.com/@andrewsweenyParallax is supported by readers and members who participate in the Parallax Academy, a space for deeper exploration of philosophy, media, myth, and culture.Free Subscribers• Receive selected public essays and podcast excerpts• Stay informed about Parallax events and conversationsMembers — €12/month• Full access to Parallax articles and essays• Participation in Parallax groups and community sessions• Access to member discussions and the growing Parallax archiveParallax Academy Members — €500/year• Everything included in Member access• Full access to all Parallax Course Library + Bonus Live Courses• Invitations to academy salons, dialogues, and special gatheringsSubscribe to join the Parallax community and Parallax Academy:[https://www.parallax-media.com/the-parallax-academy]
- 2 weeks ago1h 17m
Henry Miller - The Time of the Assassins. With Owen Cox and Andrew Sweeny
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.
- Mar 26, 202659 min
Max Borders, w. Owen Cox and Andrew Sweeny - The myth of America, part 2
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
- Mar 24, 202648 min
The Parallax View #170: On Habermas
Andrew and Tom pay their respect.
- Mar 19, 202645 min
Max Borders, w. Owen Cox and Andrew Sweeny - The myth of America, part 1
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
- Mar 6, 20261h 7m
New Course: Integral Tarot with Marianne Costa
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
- Feb 27, 20261h 10m
The Parallax View #169: Civil war in Europe
Raven Connolly and Owen Cox join the Parallax View to talk about the issues of Europe and it´s underlying themes
- Feb 23, 20261h 55m
Iain McGilchrist, Marc Gafni & Zak Stein | The Return of Value and the Sacred - Part 2
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
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