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The first Sweeny vs Bard without a guest in a while.  In this episode, Alexander describes the war in Ukraine as a clash of paradigms rather than civilization.  He says that it’s a fight between David and Goliath, but also liberal democracy vs Putin’s attempt at Feudalism in the digital age.  We talk about Duganism, technology, history, and religion in the face of the war.  And so much more.

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.

April 16th 2022 Andrew Sweeny and Tom Amarque on death cults and unbound libidinal energies.

https://parallax-media.eu/the-parallax-view     April 9th 2022 - A Sloterdijkean view on celebrity, where we come from, and where it will go.

April 2nd Dugin-Chaos-Ukraine-The Slap-Magick ... this one is for the fans

Andrew Sweeny reads his new essay ‘Special Operations’ and The Kali Yuga - Meditations on the War in Ukraine. Available at www.parallax-media.eu.

Campbell Dixon joins for a trio infernal about sexual politics, sexual initiation, the virtues and pitfalls of monogamy and polyamory, pornofication vs true eroticism ... it´s about sex, guys.

Buckminster Fuller once said, ”You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” If the current system is „Game A“, how do new organizational models for a "Game B“ world look like? What insights can we glean from experiments in the space of self-management? How would a truly integral, metamodern, holistic form of running a business look like? How can we make purpose the boss and decentralize power systematically? What role might the emergence of Web3 and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) play to create better incentive structures and solve global coordination problems? How can new organizational and business models outcompete the legacy system? With Hosts Tom Amarque & Dennis Wittrock and guests: Jim Rutt He is the host of the “Jim Rutt Show” and the former CEO of Network Solutions. The New York Times once referred to him as “the Internet’s bad boy” due to his reputation for creative mischief. He sold Network Solutions at the peak of the Dot Com boom and then went into scientific research. Jim has been affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute since 2002, serving as Chairman from 2009 thru 2012. In a conversation with Jordan Hall he coined the term “Game B” that now galvanizes a global movement of changemakers. Thomas Thomison A seasoned entrepreneur and business builder, Thomas Thomison is a recognized leader, developer, and practitioner of self-organizing systems and methods. In 2007, he co-founded HolacracyOne, LLC, to develop and mature Holacracy® into what is now the gold-standard replacement for conventional management hierarchies. In 2015 he launched encode.org to further embed self-organization practices in legal, capital, and social structures. In 2019,  encode.org launched PowerShift Capital LLC to re-invent sourcing and deploying capital for purposeful, self-organized, and power-shifted endeavors. And in 2020, encode.org launched PowerShift People, LLC to create a global community of interdependent agents working in purposeful, self-organized, and power-shifted systems. Marco Robledo Marco Robledo is the author of the book "3D Management, an integral theory for organizations in the vanguard of evolution", and advises on how to build more conscious, humane, efficacious, and responsible forms of enterprise. He is a Professor of Business and Director of the Master of Business Administration (MBA) at the University of the Balearics (UIB). He defines himself as a change agent that helps organizations and individuals in their development towards higher consciousness.

Saturday 12th of march. A  Parallax View on Sex, War & Aggression. And the connection between Batman and the Ukraine conflict.

A Parallax View on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, the information war, a tasteless joke, Game A vs Game B reactions, the power of the Id, and an asymmetrical solution.