Check out https://parallax-media.eu/courses for more info Bonnitta is a visioneer, insight guide and horse whisperer. Her work is deeply embodied and grounded, and over the last several years, she's shown us how to trust the intelligence of life again. She is the founder of Alderlore Insight Center and curates wickedly provocative and seriously surprising conversations at The Pop-UP School. Her course, THE CONVIVIAL LIFE - CONVERSATIONS WITH IVAN ILLICH & FRIENDS, begins on Sunday, September 10th and will continue for 4 weeks. It will include prerecorded lectures, live Zoom sessions and campfire community sessions. For more information and join us in the learning and conviviality

Consider supporting us by donation via PayPal, Patronage or by becoming an Academy member: https://parallax-media.eu/donateParallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendarParallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculumMembership: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar The 3rd of a monthly series of discussions, Love or Die, in which Marc and Andrew discuss the meta-crisis, Hebrew Wisdom and AI. How can we rewrite the source code of the present epoch and create a new story? The stakes are high. It’s Love or Die! Dr. Marc Gafni is a visionary thinker, social activist, and passionate philosopher. He is known for his “source code teachings,” including Unique Self theory, the Five Selves, the Amorous Cosmos, A Politics of Evolutionary Love, A Return to Eros and Digital Intimacy. He is author of over twenty-five books, including the award-winning Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, as well as Orthodox rabbinic ordination.He teaches on the cutting edge of philosophy and spirit in the West, with the aim of participating in the articulation of what Dr. Gafni together with Dr. Zak Stein and colleagues are calling CosmoErotic Humanism. At the core of CosmoErotic Humanism is what Dr. Gafni and Dr. Stein are calling ‘First Principles and First Values,’ Anthro-Ontology and a “Universal Grammar of Value.” This shared story rooted in First Principles and First Values can then serve as the matrix for a global ethos for a global civilization.Dr. Gafni is the Co-Founder and Co-President of the Office for the Future, the Center for World Religion and Philosophy and the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. At the core of their shared missions is the articulation and delivery into culture of a Great Library - in multiple forms - which participates in evolving the source code of consciousness and culture in response to the Meta Crisis. Website Dr. Marc Gafni: http://www.marcgafni.comYour Unique Self: the Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment (book):http://bit.ly/3FkFhli A Return to Eros: the Radical Experience of Being Fully Alive (book): https://bit.ly/3XRCA28

The boys review the Barbie movie and discover the laws of Magick

Daniel Görtz and Michael Garfield in dialogue, hosted by Tom Amarque "Evil is the annunciation of the next level of order" Paleontologist-Futurist Michael Garfield is devoted to helping navigate our age of accelerating weirdness and helping cultivate the curiosity and play we'll need to thrive in it. As host and producer of both Future Fossils Podcast & The Santa Fe Institute's Complexity Podcast, Michael acts as interlocutor for a worldwide community of artists, scientists, and philosophers — a practice that feeds his synthetic and transdisciplinary "mind-jazz" performances in the form of essay, music, and fine art. Standard-bearer for a new generation of boundary-defying scholars, Michael refuses to be enslaved by a single perspective, creative medium, or intellectual community, walking through the walls between academia and festival culture, theory and practice — speaking and performing everywhere from Moogfest to Burning Man, SXSW to Boom Festival, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia to Long Now's Ignite Talks to The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors. Daniel Görtz is the co-author, with Emil Esper Friis, of both “Hanzi Freinacht” books The Listening Society and Nordic Ideology. Daniel’s work approaches what many know as Ken Wilber’s integral theory, but considers its secular and practical application to politics, cultural currents in society, within the arts and beyond. He lives in Sweden and works for Metamoderna, the publisher of metamodern books, and for Glimworks, an IT-company where he is In-House Philosopher.

The perverts Masha Anderson and Tom Amarque dig into Freak-Pageants, fuckibility factors, the Marilyn-Monroe-Mechanism and Sissy-Porn, Red Scare and Steve Bannon. Go to patreon.com/kulturwang for more episodes

Tom and Andrew ramble about the architecture of memes, archetypes, buildings, sex and innovation

There is no meaning crisis, there is no time between worlds.

Edited audio, full unedited video available at Patreon. Hosted by Tom Amarque Will A.I. flatten the human experience? Will new technologies disrupt ancient religious mechanisms like ritual, prohibition ans sacrifice? What is the future of A.I. itself? Guests are: Swedish Philosopher Alexander Bard, Jim Rutt, Former Chairman Santa Fe Institute, Co-initiator of the Game B, and host of the popular podcast the Jim Rutt Show, American Philosopher and musician Alex Ebert and Thomas Hamelryck, a specialist in Bayesian modelling and probabilistic machine learning.

With Rachel Hayden, Adriana Forte, Aydan Connor Hosted by Andrew Sweeny Consider supporting us by donation via PayPal, Patronage or by becoming an Academy member: https://parallax-media.eu/donate Parallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculumMembership: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy is an educational and media-based network of friends, writers, teachers, and podcasters offering online study circles, classes, and offline events all over Europe A deep and revealing conversation about different aspects of the transgender experience—Ayden and Rachel, both having transitioned, share their experiences and reasons for transitioning as adults. We also discuss the dangers of the polarising debate on transgenderism on both sides of the culture war. Some surprising and necessary insights. Rachel Hayden met with her own gender crisis several years ago. Finding the dogma of "trans ideology" insufficient and problematic, she turned to scientists and thinkers on the liminal web for guidance, eventually developing an aspirational model of gender transition for herself. She has become increasingly fascinated by gender over time and has spoken publicly with many others on the subject, including John Vervaeke, Gregg Henriques, and Alexander Bard. Her interest has recently turned toward healthy models of gender for non-trans people, and she is following the work of such thinkers as Bard, Fanny Norlin, and co-presenter Adriana Forte-Naili to enrich her understanding in this regard. Aydan Connor is a Transman who currently works as a craft beer brewer. He has been slowly entering the conversations in the liminal web space after finding John Vervaeke’s Meaning Crisis work through his interview on Jordan Peterson’s podcast. In contrast to the superficial biological essentialist trans debate happening in the anti-woke circles surrounding Jordan Peterson, Aydan quickly discovered John Vervaeke’s interview with Rachel Hayden, which demonstrated a rich and nuanced interest in the psychology and cognitive science of sex and gender, and most importantly, acknowledged the brain as part of our biology. Aydan has been in regular conversation with Rachel, and now also with Adriana, and is increasingly urgent and invested in finding a way to deepen our conversations about gender and sex, hoping to reverse the current trend of scapegoating trans people. Adriana Forte Naili is a coach and facilitator, but she currently spends a lot of her time speaking about the cyclical nature of the female body. Experiencing the double bind of appreciating her cyclical nature and feeling stifled by Modernity’s pressures and expectations, she dove deeply into the question; “how do I show up as a cyclical being in a world that imagines itself linear?”  This inquiry has led her into many rabbit holes, including deep explorations of our social constructs and the ways they shape our bodies, our psyches, our relationships and the systems that we create. She has become increasingly active in the “Liminal Web” having conversations with a meta thinkers, futurists  and philosophers in an attempt to awaken us from our “linear” daze. She sees both Rachel Hayden and Aydan Connor as friends and colleagues in this journey of bringing nuance to the “gender” conversation. You can find out more about her work and vision at:  (https://finelinefullcircle.substack.com/,  https://www.youtube.com/@finelinefullcircle/videos) and https://www.fullyhuman.net.au/

Philosopher Cadell Last from Philosophy Portal is joining the Parallax view to talk about Nietzsche, Leadership and the function of books.