Jules Evans is a writer, historian of ideas and practical philosopher. Jules is now leading the Challenging Psychedelic Experiences Project - researching psychedelic harm reduction, ethics and integration. He wrote the essay 'More evolved than you', outlining several spiritual pathologies. In this talk, we delve into his essay.
Read MoreFanny Norlin has for the past ten years lived and breathed decentralised initiatives, where she, for the past five years, has specialised in the role the feminine and masculine play for leaders, organisations and the emerging society. She has created a framework that can help us cut through the culture wars and distorted versions of both polarities and unleash the power and creative potential between them. She is an engineer and economist, ex-C-level of one of Sweden’s largest and Europe’s most innovative e-commerce, a deep practitioner of decentralised leadership and a leader of the feminine leadership movement within the business world.
Read MoreFanny Norlin has for the past ten years lived and breathed decentralised initiatives, where she, for the past five years, has specialised in the role the feminine and masculine play for leaders, organisations and the emerging society. She has created a framework that can help us cut through the culture wars and distorted versions of both polarities and unleash the power and creative potential between them. She is an engineer and economist, ex-C-level of one of Sweden’s largest and Europe’s most innovative e-commerce, a deep practitioner of decentralised leadership and a leader of the feminine leadership movement within the business world.
Read MorePamela von Sabljar is a new breed speaker, facilitator, and mentor working at the evolutionary edge. She practices dialoguing, sensing, creating, and leading from this ever-emergent edge. She calls this Living from Eros.
Read MoreUTOK Consilience Conference 2023 - Reflections from the Intellectual Deep Web. With Alexander Bard, Alex Ebert, Fanny Norlin—Moderated by Andrew Sweeny
What have the mysterious renegades from the legendary Intellectual Deep Web been thinking about lately?
What happens when a Zoroastrian, a Jew, and a Buddhist get together and have a conversation? A spirited conversation where Zevi and me 'barded'. What is mysticism, what is good religion, what do we all have in common?
Read MoreOwen Cox and Andrew Sweeny in conversation with the widely respected author and blogger in fields ranging from nature spirituality to the future of industrial society, John Michael Greer is the author of more than seventy books, including sixteen novels, and blogs weekly at ecosophia.net. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife Sara.
Read MoreMost Gurus wouldn’t admit to having started a cult. Imagine Osho apologising for creating his cult in Oregon, where his students practised actual bio-terrorism! Impossible to conceive of!
Read MoreZevi Slavin is the creator of Seekers of Unity, an educational project and community dedicated to a collaborative, comparative, interdisciplinary exploration of mysticism. Exploring the unity of the world’s mystical traditions and the intersection of philosophy and mysticism, east and west, ancient and contemporary, in the hopes of creating a more intimate, tender and caring world together.
Alexander Bard and Layman Pascal tango for the first time here in a discussion about religion and spirituality, men and women, tantra and sutra, shamanism, the barred absolute, and a deepening of some of our favourite topics. One of the best discussions on religion you will find anywhere!
Read MoreWhy be a nomad? What does it offer? What challenges do nomads face, personally, socially, and politically? Which places are particularly interesting and friendly to the lifestyle? Which are not? And what can organisations and communities do to attract them? The aim is to raise awareness about the lifestyle, both for current and aspiring nomads, and to promote and develop the cultural projects that several of our guests are working on.
Read MoreWith the guiding star of Réné Girard, Tomas Hamelryck makes an analysis of the present culture and the need to distinguish between ritual time and times of prohibition. Without the release valve of ritual carnival transgression, the murderous scapegoat mechanism and mob will capture the culture; whereas with too much prohibition, the culture becomes rigid and tyrannical. In the present culture, we have ‘unsatisfying ritual time’ in the form of banal entertainment; our prohibitions are unclear and tend to devolve into scapegoating. This is why we need to understand the tension between sutric law (prohibition) and tantric transgression (ritual) and bring back intelligent religious prohibition and satisfying art and collective ritual.
Read MoreOwen Cox and Andrew Sweeny talk to OG Rose ( pen name of Daniel and Michelle Garner) about the creative dance between literature and philosophy. They discuss how literature makes philosophy real by putting ideas into the conflict between different human subjects, requiring the reader to evaluate and undergo their process of self-discovery and self-becoming in reading. They discuss the pitfalls of rationality and intellect divorced from the body and how art helps keep the two together. They think about tragedy and trauma in literature and critique notions of "post-tragedy". And they think about the state of modern literature and culture in general, where it goes wrong, and what it needs.
Read MoreRaven Connolly and Owen Cox talk about sex, sexual difference, androgyny, transgenderism and autoeroticism.
Read MorePolitical philosopher and sociologist Daniel Gortz is the leader of the "Nordic school" of metamodernism. He is co-author of Hanzi Freinacht books "The Listening Society" and "Nordic Ideology". He lives in Sweden Here we are talking about his upcoming book '12 much better rules for life', and delve into the structure and generator function of how these rules towads metamodenrism came about.
Read MoreTom Amarque talks to Andrew Sweeny and Owen Cox about the legendary Aleister Crowley, the English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer—a hero to some, a notorious satanist to others.
Read MoreAlexander Bard talks to Andrew Sweeny and Owen Cox about anthropology, philosophy and religion. The conversation begins exploring Bard's theories of socio-sexual archetypes and how they relate to social structure, spirituality and religion. It then explores the legacy of various religious traditions and their relevance today, the meaning of tantra and "barred absolute", Bard's ideas on empire and technology, and the prospects of building a 21st-century global religion. Followed by Q&A.
Read MoreAlexander Bard talks to Andrew Sweeny and Owen Cox about anthropology, philosophy and religion. The conversation begins exploring Bard's theories of socio-sexual archetypes and how they relate to social structure, spirituality and religion. It then explores the legacy of various religious traditions and their relevance today, the meaning of tantra and "barred absolute", Bard's ideas on empire and technology, and the prospects of building a 21st-century global religion. Followed by Q&A.
Read MoreOwen Cox discusses Cadell Last's paper "A Reflective Note for Dialectical Thinkers", which contains many of the core elements of Cadell's philosophy. The paper describes how dialectical thinking works, using the examples of religious and secular subjects and societies to illustrate the historical development of spirit. Owen's talk explores Cadell's arguments and shows how to approach contemporary phenomena through a dialectical lens, and how subjects can attempt to think and act creatively between contradictory ideas and ideals.
Read MoreParallax Sangha is a digital classroom and living community dedicated to studying, practising, and contemplating matters of the soul and psyche. We are a network of friends, writers, teachers, and podcasters offering online study circles, classes, as well as offline events all over Europe.
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