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Shozan Jack Haubner talks to Andrew Sweeny about Zen, Comedy, Love, Learning to Die, Leonard Cohen, and other things that matter the most. Shozan describes himself as a Zen priest, writer, bon vivant, and confused renunciate. Failed screenwriter, poet, stand-up comic, and Catholic. Available for parties. He is also the award-winning author of Single White Monk: Tales of Death, Failure, and Bad Sex (Although Not Necessarily in that Order) and Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk He also runs a great YouTube channel called Zen Confidential: Links: Zen Confidential: https://www.youtube.com/@zenconfidential25 Books by Shozan: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shozan-Jack-Haubner/e/B00BU82XU6%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Parallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership and Donation: 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.

Tom and Andrew ramble about the the irregularities around the margins

Tammy Peterson catches up with Andrew Sweeny and speaks about her Catholic conversion, storytelling, her husband Jordan Peterson's tours, a critique of feminism, the need for deep listening, prayer, beauty, negotiation and wrestling with God. A wise and quiet but articulate counterpart to her firebrand husband! Links: https://www.youtube.com/@Tammy-Peterson/about Parallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership and Donation: 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

Tom and Andrew ramble about pyramids, critical paths, AI, doom and gloom, Baudelaire´s great poem on drunkenness, and beauty in the streets of Palma.

A conversation with educational philosopher Dr Zak Stein about the future of education, AI, and its dystopian and utopian possibilities. What happens when we create the supermind. Hosted by Andrew Sweeny Zak Stein studied philosophy and religion at Hampshire College, and then educational neuroscience, human development, and the philosophy of education at Harvard University. While a student at Harvard, he co-founded what would become Lectica, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to the research-based, justice-oriented reform of large-scale standardized testing in K-12, higher-education, and business. ​He is also a writer whose work has appeared in a variety of journals including American Psychologist, New Ideas in Psychology, Mind, Brain, and Education, Integral Review, and the Journal of Philosophy of Education. He has published two books, Social Justice and Educational Measurement a dissertation that traces the history of standardized testing and its ethical implications, and Education in a Time Between Worlds, which expands the philosophical work to include grappling with the relations between schooling and technology more broadly. Learn more about Zak's work: http://www.zakstein.org/ 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. Parallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership and Donation: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar"

Hosted by Andrew Sweeny The first of a monthly series of discussions, Love or Die, in which Marc elaborates on what he has called 'The global intimacy crisis' and 'CosmoErotic Humanism'. 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.com 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.Parallax Events:https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendarParallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculumMembership and Donation:https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar

Arabella Thais is a writer, philosopher and podcast host. We ramble about art as an antidote to existential dread.

Hosted by Andrew Sweeny Dr Angela Puca holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Philosophy. In 2021, The University of Leeds awarded her a PhD in Anthropology of Religion, which will soon be published with Brill. Her research focuses on magic, witchcraft, Paganism, esotericism, shamanism, and related currents. Author of several peer-reviewed publications and co-editor of the forthcoming ‘Pagan religions in five minutes’ for Equinox, she hopes to bridge the gap between academia and the communities of magic practitioners by delivering related scholarly content on her YouTube Channel and TikTok ‘Angela’s Symposium.’ SUPPORT Dr Puca’s work on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/angelapuca or Paypal https://paypal.me/angelasymposiumFOLLOW Dr Puca: YouTube (Angela’s Symposium), https://www.youtube.com/c/AngelasSymposium 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.Parallax EventsParallax AcademyMembership and Donation

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.

Tom and Andrew ramble about the patriarchy, a trans-spectrum, and tough handjobs.