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w. Alexander Bard - Alex Ebert -Thomas Hamelryck - O.G. Rose - Dimitri Crooijmans - Andrew Sweeny - Daniel Fraga - Owen Cox - Raven  A third conversation with the mysterious figures of a legendary online philosophical forum called The Intellectual Deep Web. Attendees include Alexander Bard, OG Rose, Alex Ebert, Thomas Hamelryck, Daniel Fraga, and Raven Connolly.    `What is Parallax Sangha? Parallax 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, and offline events all over Europe.  Apply for parallax sangha here: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-sangha Intellectual Deep Web.   The Intellectual Deep Web is a forum founded by Alexander Bard and Peter Limberg. Layman Pascal has described it thus:  The Intellectual Deep Web (a name that parodies and transcends the notorious ""intellectual dark web"") is a contingent of high-powered neo-philosophers lurking at the edges of the so-called Emerge field.   They are voracious, combative, obscenely well-read, performative, enticing, offputting, fast & deeply attuned to the leading edges of technosocial, occult, spiritual, psychoanalytic and cultural unfoldment.  Their vision of upgrade in a time between worlds is a Dark Renaissance.   This concept takes archaic futurism, technophilia, phallic vigor, immanent transcendence, interactivity, emergent informational worldviews, artistry, metalocalism and emergent religion and combines all that with an intoxicating affirmation of negation, dissonance, abysses and exclusionary boundaries.  Oh, and don't forget their deep skepticism about the unprocessed sexual and aggressive tendencies that might be locking the rest of us into a toothless and doomed utopianism.   https://www.whatisemerging.com/profiles/what-the-hell-is-a-dark-renaissance

With Thomas Hamelryck -Andrew Sweeny-OG Rose  Tom Amarque -Daniel Fraga- Alex Ebert A second conversation with the mysterious figures of a legendary online philosophical forum called The Intellectual Deep Web

With the guiding star of Rene 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.  Thomas Hamelryck is a Girardian scholar and professor of machine learning. His research focuses on rethinking the foundations of religion from the perspective of mimetic desire, scapegoating and ritual, synthesising Girard, Nietzsche, and eastern tantric religion. What is Parallax Sangha? Parallax 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, and offline events all over Europe. Apply for parallax sangha here: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-sangha

Owen 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. O.G. Rose is the penname of Daniel and Michelle Garner, consisting of Michelle’s maiden, middle, and their shared last name. While at the University of Virginia, O.G. Rose spent several years working collaboratively with other artists at Eunoia, a creative community Rose helped develop. Rose now lives on a farm, manages a wedding venue named Mead Lake Lodge, operates Frozen Glory Photography, and teaches piano using visuals from the DLG Pattern Method. A finalist for the 2020 UNO Press Lab Prize and 46th Pushcart Nominee, Rose’s creative works appear at The Write Launch, Allegory Ridge, Streetlight Magazine, Ponder Review, Iowa Review online, The William and Mary Review, Assure Press, Toho Journal online, West Trade Review, ellipsis, Poydras Review, O:JA&L, Burningword, and Broken Pencil. https://www.og-rose.com/ What is Parallax Sangha? Parallax 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, and offline events all over Europe. Apply for parallax sangha here: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-sangha

In this conversation Owen and Raven begin by discussing autoeroticism and autogynephelia, a theory for understanding transgenderism different from the usual gender theories. They continue to think about sexual subculture and the broader 20th and 21st century context, then open up a group discussion which begins to explore the idea of ritual time vs ordinary time and how we suffer when the distinctions break down. Raven Connolly has been described as a “digital socialite” and a “philosopher queen”. She is currently travelling Europe and America, exploring and networking with the various underground subcultures of the avant-garde, hippy and tech scenes. She has been a host on Peter Limberg’s Stoa, a facilitator with the Nordic Women’s Gathering, and was a student of Bret Weinstein (of IDW fame).What is Parallax Sangha? Parallax 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, and offline events all over Europe. Apply for parallax sangha here: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-sangha

Political philosopher and sociologist Daniel Görtz 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 towards metamodernism came about. 1:45 Deontology vs teleology  15:00 A critical path 22:00 An integration of Jordan Peterson? 27:00 To what extent can we adopt new rules 39:00 Are these rules arbitrary? 45:00 What is the Leitmotif for these rules? 51:00 Can you f#k like a beast ironically? 1:00:00 Again, JPB 1:12:12 A dive into Daniels writing technique 1:23:00 Confronting ones own political bias

Tom 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. Tom Amarque is the editor-in-chief of Phänomen Verlag, a German book publishing house, and the founder of Parallax-Magazine, which is a heterodox media hub. He is a philosopher, podcaster, author and occasional translator. He currently lives in Mallorca, Spain. Tom has practised various forms of meditation and other techniques for over 25 years. His philosophical approach is a subject philosophy which centres around volition, self-reference/autopoiesis and the architecture of the development of psyche and culture. What is Parallax Sangha? Parallax 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, and offline events all over Europe. Apply for parallax sangha here: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-sangha

Andrew Sweeny looks at The Dawn of Tantra by Herbert V. Guenther and Chögyam Trungpa. A basic introduction to classical Buddhist tantra and its practices and philosophies; how it can be practised and understood in the west—and how it differs from Sutra , paganism and Neo tantra.What is Parallax Sangha? Parallax 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. Apply for parallax sangha here: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-sangha

Alexander 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. What is Parallax Sangha? Parallax 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. Apply for parallax sangha here: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-sangha

A reflective note for dialectic thinkers: On a paper by Cadell Last What is Parallax Sangha?  Parallax 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.   Apply for parallax sangha here: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-sangha