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Tom and Andrew ramble about object-permanence, paradigm-shifts and Tom´s new Parallax-Series on 'Magick and the Ecology of Psyche'

Are there any essences left?

Most 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! But Andrew Cohen is different — a humbled and repentant Guru, which may seem like a contradiction in terms. In any case, Cohen’s harrowing story of meeting the shadow of the Guru is compelling. And in our merciless world of cancel culture, I think it deserves to be told. Cohen has written a new book entitled “The Shadow and the Bodhisattva” — it could have been called The shadow and the Guru. While he clearly admits his failures and blind spots, he also defends his achievements and the Guru principle in general. A word without great spiritual masters — and access to a vertical dimension — is a postmodern flatland. And Cohen asks the question: what does the Guru look like in the post-post-modern age?Andrew Cohen BioParallax 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 Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Membership and Donation: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendarhttps://www.manifest-nirvana.com/andrew-cohen/

A View into the Ecology of Psyche Written and narrated by Tom Amarque Part VII is partly based on Tom Amarque´s 2019 book "Der Wille zur Transzendenz" [Will to transcendence]. Here we will finally answer the question of what Magick is.

A View into the Ecology of Psyche Written and narrated by Tom Amarque Part VI is partly based on Tom Amarque´s 2007 book "Entwicklung als Passion" [Development as passion]. Here we will encounter talent and the technology of the Daimon.

A View into the Ecology of Psyche Written and Narrated by Tom Amarque Part V is partly based on Tom Amarque´s 2019 book "Der Wille zur Transzendenz” [The will to transcendence]

A View into the Ecology of Psyche Written and narrated by Tom Amarque Part IV is partly based on Tom Amarque´s 2019 book "Der Wille zur Transzendenz" [The will to Transcendence]. Here we delve into the quest for the future and the invention of two anthropotechniques.

A View into the Ecology of Psyche Written and narrated by Tom Amarque Part III is partly based on Tom Amarque´s 2007 book "Der Wille" [The will] - which goes into a stages-theory of will an the paradigm-shift that we don´t live in the world, but with her.

A View into the Ecology of Psyche Written and narrated by Tom Amarque Part II is partly based on Amarque´s 2007 book "Die Evolution der Psyche" [The evolution of the psyche] - which delves into the 'Autopoiesis of the Psyche', systems-theory, George Spencer Browns 'Laws of Form' and the primacy of 'observation' in understanding how we construct our internal experiences.

A View into the Ecology of Psyche An introduction to the series, written and narrated by Tom Amarque Partly based on Tom Amarque´s book "Der starke Mensch" [The strong human], 2011 “What do I mean with the ecology of the psyche? With this I refer to the elements, events, structures and processes that bring forth the experience of self and self-hood as well as world or ‘Lebenswelt’ – lived-in-world. Not the physical world per se, but our cognitive representation of it.”