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In this wild, expansive "Crazy Wisdom" conversation, Alexander Bard, Tim Pickrill, Turiyoa Strojanov, Andrew Sweeny, and Turio dive deep into Vajrayana Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Peruvian shamanism, and the tension between Rangtong and Shentong philosophies. They explore mountain vs. city practice, the archetype of the monk vs. the sly man in the world, and the importance of serving the sociont. Ecstatic mysticism, harsh truths, psycho-spiritual integration, tantric paradoxes, and plenty of provocation. Philosophy on fire.

Alexander Bard unveils Zuvism—blending Zen, Sufism, and Zoroastrianism from the Silk Road. A deep chat with Andrew Sweeny and Tim Pickerill. Esoteric truths, sex, violence—decentralized spirituality for nomads.

This is an invitation to Max Border's new course, Empire of the Mind: A Grey Robes Symposium, which will include a wide-ranging discussion on the meaning of empire, the function of religion, sutra, tantra, and decentralization.

Technology and education in a time between worlds

A first converstion with the intellectual titans Alexander Bard and Daniel Garner of O.G. Rose and a discussion about their two new philosophy books, Belonging again and Process and event.

Bard queries Pickerill and Sweeny about the wonderous practice lineages of Tantric Buddhism and Crazy Wisdom Masters.

A new conversation with Sweeny, Bard, And Borders ond religion, sex, and civilization.

Why are we so depressed in the digital age? A deep discussion about what Roberto Palacio calls the age of anxiety.

A deep conversation about archetypes and the need for art and religion and a Gurdieffian 4th way in the land of technological utopia and dystopia. And a plug for Max's upcoming course on Parallax, which will explore these issue.

A series with Bonnitta Roy, exploring metaphysics and transcendental emergentism—and other ideas circling around Alexander's new book Process and Event.

The beginning of a series with Bonnitta Roy, exploring metaphysics and transcendental emergentism—and other ideas circling around Alexander's new book Process and Event.

After a bit of a hiatus, Sweeny vs Bard are back to talk about core Bardism, Alexander’s new book Process and Event, Zoraster, Marx, Time, Space, and God. Please enjoy this feast.

Parallax Academy is evolving. Starting in Fall 2025, we invite you to become a founding member. When you join us, you gain access to an ever-evolving constellation of live and recorded classes and seminars in philosophy and deep ecology, book clubs, a poetry salon, monthly gatherings with inspiring teachers, mentorship and coaching, discussion groups, and community rituals. 

von Sean Esbjörn-Hargens

Die zunehmende Einsicht in die Komplexität ökologischer Probleme hat Führungskräfte in Umweltorganisationen, Regierungen, Unternehmensbüros und Universitäten dazu bewegt, vermehrt nach interdisziplinären, multidisziplinären und sogar transdisziplinären Modellen zu suchen, um die Umweltprobleme zu lösen.

by Daniel Christian Wahl

Sustainability alone is not an adequate goal. The word sustainability itself is inadequate, as it does not tell us what we are actually trying to sustain. In 2005, after spending two years working on my doctoral thesis on design for sustainability, I began to realize that what we are actually trying to sustain is the underlying pattern of health, resilience and adaptability that maintain this planet in a condition where life as a whole can flourish. Design for sustainability is, ultimately, design for human and planetary health .

Von Lene Rachel Andersen & Tomas Björkman

Wie bemerkenswert sind die skandinavischen Länder? Sind sie wirklich so bemerkenswert? Sind wir nur selbstdarstellerische „Nordländer”, die nur im Auftrag unserer nationalen Tourismusabteilungen handeln, oder gibt es etwas Wichtiges in Island, Dänemark, Norwegen, Schweden und Finnland, das es wert ist, untersucht zu werden?

von Raoul Eshelman

Wir leben unbestreitbar in einer Zeit des kritischen Skeptizismus, in der Glaube meist nur noch als Zitat am Rand der Kultur eine Rolle spielt – beispielsweise bei gelegentlichen biblischen oder religiösen Anspielungen in ansonsten weltlichen Filmen, Gemälden oder Büchern. Die eindeutig säkularisierte Ausrichtung unserer Gesellschaft hat scheinbar endgültig dafür gesorgt, dass das Erlebnis des Glaubens aus unserem kulturellen Erfahrungsbereich verschwunden ist.

Von Tomas Björkman 

Ich glaube, dass die Menschheit und die Welt, in der wir leben, einen kritischen Punkt in unserer Geschichte erreicht haben. Das alte Sprichwort, dass nichts so beständig ist wie der Wandel selbst, schien nie eine genauere Widerspiegelung unserer Realität zu sein als heute.

von David Korten

Wir Menschen, so Kortens These, leben mit und durch Geschichten, und die Geschichten, die wir uns derzeit erzählen, führen uns in eine desaströse Zukunft, geprägt durch Klimawandel, Armut, ungleiche Einkommensverteilung, soziale Ungerechtigkeiten und kollektive Selbstzerstörung. In seinen Buch – einem Bericht an den Club of Rome – untersucht Korten diese Geschichten, nach denen wir leben, unterscheidet vier grundlegende Kosmologien, auf denen diese Geschichten basieren, und zeigt auf, was wir tun müssen, um zu einer tragfähigen und wahrhaft demokratischen menschlichen Zukunft zu kommen.

By Max Borders

Inanna, the Sumerian goddess of love and beauty, descended into the Underworld to confront her sister, Ereshkigal, the queen of death and darkness. As she traveled through each gate of the Underworld, Inanna was forced to remove a piece of her royal attire. After passing through each gate, she stood naked and vulnerable before her sister. Stripped of all illusions and symbols of power, she was reborn. 

von Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Was wir weltweit, von Indien über Großbritannien bis hin zu den USA, gesehen haben, ist die Rebellion gegen den inneren Kreis der "Sachbearbeiter" und Journalisten-Insider, die keine Haut im Spiel haben, diese Klasse paternalistischer halb-intellektueller Experten mit irgendeiner Ivy League, Oxford-Cambridge oder einer ähnlichen label-gesteuerten Ausbildung, die dem Rest von uns sagen, 1) was wir tun sollen, 2) was wir essen sollen, 3) wie wir sprechen sollen, 4) wie wir denken sollen... und 5) wen wir wählen sollen.

by Dennis Wittrock

Like many of my peers, I am constantly wrestling with the question: What does it take to steer the world into a saner, more sustainable direction? This text is not a definitive answer to that question, simply a summary of what puzzle-pieces I have found so far that seem relevant. I will release it in the form of a series of posts. My hope is that by putting my pieces on the table that others will pick them up and link them to theirs so that this act of distributed cognition can move the whole forward.

Von Dominik Irtenkauf

Die politische Landschaft bewegt sich derzeit in eine gefährliche Richtung. Das hängt nicht nur mit Corona zusammen. Das Erstarken (rechts-)populistischer Bewegungen, der zunehmende Verlust einer eigenen kritischen Mitte und die Indifferenz gegenüber dem ökologischen Kollaps unseres Planeten führen zu einer Rückwärtsbewegung. Dies beinhaltet eine Rückkehr zu überwunden geglaubten Haltungen und Verhaltensweisen.

by Alistair Langer

In this piece I want to use C***** just as a starting point of a much larger reflection. I’m intentionally not writing the word out. I call it the big C. C with a capital C. To start with: No, I’m not denying C. It’s a virus. It kills people. I know people who died from it. …

By Paul LLoyd Robson

The necessity and value of Desexualised Spaces is as old as human society its self.

Hunting and military units, sports teams and fraternities such as Freemasons have been gathering points for men throughout the ages. At water fountains, in homes and more recently female empowerment groups are some of the places where women have tended to gather.

by John Bunzl and Nick Duffell

At a time when the human propensity for ostrich-like behaviour is becoming perilous, we owe a massive debt to the Extinction Rebellion movement (XR) for putting climate change onto the headlines. This raising of consciousness has been essential, allowing the notion of ‘climate emergency’ to enter the vocabulary.

Starts November 23nd 2025 - A re-vitalisation of the discourse of will, with Tom Amarque

Starts October 12th 2025 - A one time & free lecture with Brent Cooper

Starts November 2nd, 2025 - A deep dive into Consciousness, Existentialism, and The Human Sociont, with Alexander Bard

This course serves as the third step in the larger long-term journey into the evolving landscape of your unique self, offering practices, insights, and community support to help you live your unique self in a deeper, more connected way.

Guided by Cordula Frei this course invites you to remember your place within the living web of Earth, to honour connectedness as a sacred teacher, and to awaken the integral consciousness that Jean Gebser described as the next evolutionary unfolding of the human spirit.

UNLOCK YOUR WIDE POTENTIAL WITH VOICE DIALOGUE AND INNOVATIVE binaural meditation beats by KLARTRAUM

Integral Theory for Idiots is for all three types.  Layman Pascal will put you all in a blender together -- framing the discussion as part of the general field of developmental metatheories, liminal culture & adaptation to the new bio-informational planetary situation. This carnivalesque educational and participatory journey will be part (lively) introduction, part (dancing) critique, and part (enthusiastic) appreciation.  

This course serves as the third step in the larger long-term journey into the evolving landscape of your unique self, offering practices, insights, and community support to help you live your unique self in a deeper, more connected way.

This five-part course invites students to embark on a journey of philosophical mythmaking as they explore how to reclaim time from linear progress, ‘see through’ the complex conditions of the present, and trace the outlines of an ‘integral’ spirituality–a spirituality that uniquely meets the challenges of this strange time between worlds..

The profound value of the Marseille Tarot lies in its objective and humble nature: an immaterial architecture that summarizes the concrete, psychological, and spiritual structure of the human being, a point of encounter between our existential struggles and the laws of the Cosmos.

Zufism – Toward the Origin and Source of Philosophy, Religion, and Spirituality is a course that lays the groundwork for Alexander Bard’s forthcoming book on Zufism. It combines Bard’s philosophical insights with key spiritual traditions such as Zoroastrianism, Zen, and Eastern traditions like Taoism and Vajrayana along the Silk Road. Drawing from his intellectual influences, including Hegel, Nietzsche, and Deleuze, Bard’s philosophy delves into the evolving relationship between philosophy, religion, and technology.

This course serves as the second step in the larger long-term journey into the evolving landscape of your unique self, offering practices, insights, and community support to help you live your unique self in a deeper, more connected way.

Finding and Living your Truth as a Woman in Business

Starting 21.2.2025 at Parallax Academia hosted by Simone Junod, Shaman

Portal 1: This course serves as the first step in the larger long-term journey into the evolving landscape of your unique self, offering practices, insights, and community support to help you live your unique self in a deeper, more connected way

This transformative five-part course is designed for those ready to construct a powerful memeplex: an Empire of the Mind. In a world where personal stagnation can be dangerous, we will learn to shed old skin, gather our strength, and rise against the forces of manipulation and control. More than a course, this symposium is rooted in a powerful vision of social self-organization, along with the doctrine and practices that can realize it.

In this course, Gafni and Stein deepen the themes raised in First Principles and First Values. The Eye of Value is contrasted with the Eye-of-Anti-Value, and the topics of anthro-ontology, story, and value are explored in depth. Marc and Zak will engage participants in a series of dialogues at the edges of human knowledge, where there is a dance between the languages of science and the sacred, and between the lineages of ancient wisdom and our living memory of the future.  

What is the occult?  And how can a deeper understanding of its theory and practices help us to grow in power and wisdom?  Individually we need to become more complex (and simpler), wealthier in every sense, and infused with a greater force of intention in all aspects of our lives.  Collectively, we need to enhance the well-being of those we love and also spread new ideas,  patterns, and moods into a planetary civilization that is wavering between implosion and transformation.   Real growth requires more than just aspiration and meditation.  We must contact, unfold and empower hidden parts of ourselves.  We need to get better at “magic.”  

Many portray Gurdjieff as a mere syncretic teacher of Eastern traditions or the more fashionable "Silk Road'' mystic who cobbled together ideas and practices for his system of the “Fourth Way”. However, this superficial understanding belies his history and teachings that tell a very different story and reveals a far more profound and challenging reality. This introductory session will delve into Gurdjieff's faith and work, and his controversial views on religion, and modern Christianity in particular, setting the stage for a deeper exploration.

Part I of Belonging Again attempted to explain our circumstance through thinkers like Peter Berger, Philip Rieff, and James Hunter. Part II will work to address our circumstance, arguing what it would mean to think economics, politics, sociology, and the like in light of the arguments of Belonging Again. In this, our aim is to show that in “The Meaning Crisis” there can be reason to hope. 

A 4 part course with Zak Stein which will will delve into the works of David J Temple.

In this six-part seminar cyber-philosopher Alexander Bard will delve into his Magnum Opus, Process and Event

The Hard Way 3 month deep dive begins March 7th, 2024

The Grey Robes - Initiation into a Global Digital Priesthood begins March 10, 2024

Luke Behncke´s Parallax Course on Georges I. Gurdjieff, starting January 6th

Course at the PARALLAX ACADEMY

Course at the PARALLAX ACADEMY

A 5-part interview series with Alexander Bard on Digital Libido

Brendan Graham Dempsey course on Metamodern Spirituality in a new installment of our “Rebuilding Spirituality” Curriculum

This fourth installment of Layman Pascals “Rebuilding Spirituality” Course at the PARALLAX ACADEMY

This third installment of Layman Pascals “Rebuilding Spirituality” Course at the PARALLAX ACADEMY

This second installment of Layman Pascals “Rebuilding Spirituality” Course at the PARALLAX ACADEMY

This special introduction to “Rebuilding Spirituality” serves as the inaugural gateway to all future PARALLAX ACADEMY courses in this important emerging domain.