Is Layman Pascal a Guru? A parallax dialogue with Andrew Sweeny

REBUILDING SPIRITUALITY FOR A NEW A NEW WORLD  Sign up here:  https://parallax-media.eu/events/rebuilding-spirituality  This special introduction to “Rebuilding Spirituality” serves as the inaugural gateway to all future PARALLAX ACADEMY courses in this important emerging domain. Starting from his own unique philosophical and practical approaches, Layman Pascal guides us through a deep exploration of what it will really take to be a personal practitioner, teacher-theorist or collaborative community participant in the emerging dharma of metamodern religion, integral postmetaphysical spirituality & the dark renaissance of the human spirit. These rare online sessions will illuminate the convergence of archaic, traditional and postmodern intelligence toward personal and collective ensoulment in the Age of the Metacrisis. Join Layman for embodied wisdom-skill practices, supportive depth-oriented feedback in live Q & A sessions, and special access to advanced theory modules explaining the view necessary to make sense of how we reformat authentic transformational spirituality for our strange and disturbing times.  MODULE OUTLINE 4 pre-recorded lectures and 4 live, interactive calls  (Sunday class begins promptly at 5 p.m. CET/ 11am EST on Zoom  April 17  • Lesson I - A general introduction to the project, invitation to go beyond integral and postmodern approaches, some examples of new ways to handle religion and spirituality  April 24 • Lesson II - Theoretical exploration of the components of dharma. How do insight and practice work together? What are some of the major kinds of insights and practices/skills that will be needed in order to rebuild spirituality?  May 1 • Lesson III - How do we handle experience, interpretation and language in ways that both validate spirituality and avoid dogmatic traps?  May 8 • Lesson IV - What kind of moment do we live in and what sorts of spirituality are needed for the "time between worlds"?   

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN Deepen your capacity to explore, compare, evaluate and enhance your spiritual practices.  Practice attunement, mixing and assimilation of alternate states of consciousness.  Establish new spiritually-based relationships using communication styles that are not idealist, dogmatic, cynical, gullible or dismissive.  Generate new flavors of being by harmonizing the different intelligences of our spiritual organism.  Explore the access points to radical consciousness without absolutism or metaphysical baggage.  Strengthen your skills in intentional attention, somatic interception, subtle energetics, liberating insight & deeper connection.  Learn to inhabit cognitive dissonance and refine it into cognitive resonance.   

ABOUT YOUR FACILITATOR  Layman Pascal is a species of author, public speaker, yoga teacher, nondualist theologian, meditation advocate & chakra biopsychologist. He is the host of the popular podcast THE INTEGRAL STAGE. He is based in Victoria, British Columbia. His family has lived in the coastal islands for five generations. He is a writer on themes of cultural philosophy, shamanism and organic spiritual development. Lately, he has been active as a board member of the Foundation for Integral Religion and Spirituality and a founder of the Beyond Interfaith project.