Parallax Course Archive

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.