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Alexander Bard: Alexander Bard is a Swedish author, lecturer, artist, songwriter, music producer, TV personality, philosopher and political activist, and one of the founders of the Syntheist movement along with his co-author Jan Söderqvist. His books include “The Futurica Trilogy”, “Digital Libido” & “Syntheism”.   Thomas Hamelryck is a Lecturer and Researcher based in Copenhagen. His academic research interests revolve around Machine learning, Bayesian statistics, Protein Structure Prediction, Probabilistic Programming, Deep Learning. He is also an enthusiast of Réne Girard, and denies all rumours that he was once the keyboard player for Depeche Mode.    Andrew Sweeny: Andrew Sweeny is a writer, editor, blogger, Youtuber, published poet, podcaster, musician, and teacher. He has worked as a touring musician and put out several albums, published a book of poetry, and animated two popular podcasts and a philosophical blog on Medium and now on Parallax. He Lectures at Sciences Po, in Paris, France.   Cadell Last: is a philosopher with an interest in anthropology, history and psychoanalysis, and the author of Global Brain Singularity, and Sex, Masculinity, God. He is currently working on various philosophical projects, including a book project with Alexander Bard, and an online academy called Philosophy Portal.   About the Strange Attractor Series  In the last couple of years, we have witnessed the emergence of different meta-models, theories, and future visions which try to go beyond the worldview of postmodernism: a strange attractor that seems to run on new and exciting algorithms. But what—if anything—do all of these models and movements have in common? Is there a shared deep-structure that is expressing itself, not only in new and more complex ways of thinking and cognition, but also in geopolitics, science, industry, religion, ecology, sexuality, parenting, culture, technology, architecture, the arts—and in every other area of contemporary life. Is there a strange attractor that emerges after postmodernity? What are its shape and characteristics? What new and exciting vistas and opportunities do these new vistas open up for us? Can they contribute to solving the existential problems of the current meta-crisis? What are the moral and ethical injunctions that we could infer from the present emergence of these meta-tribes.   In this Roundtable-series - hosted by PARALLAX - we invite a multitude of ‘post-postmodern’ pioneer—thinkers, psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, educators, economists, and artists—to have an interdisciplinary discussion about the essence of Post-Postmodernity – given there is such a thing. More precisely, this podcast-series is an experiment which seeks to find out whether these movements and models after Postmodernity have something in common. Can these movements leave their respective bubbles and contribute something essential to the development of the world we live in? That is our primary question.

January, 14th A talk about Rene Girard, scapegoeting Fauci and Djokovic, and children as sacrifical victims

A talk about the psychosis-model of clinical psychiatrist Matthias Desmet. Or is the Covid-Craze fundamentally a religious phenomenon?

January 1st; Ep. 26 A reading of Andrews piece Tantra, Trungpa, and Booze

December 25th; Ep. 25 Andrew and Tom do a deep dive on the new Matrix 4 flick

December 18th; Ep. 24 Cadell Last joins the discussion. 

Mit  ihrem Artikel "A Poetic Realist" und ihren Bildern hat die Dänin Lone  Morch uns in der ersten Archronon-Ausgabe eindrückliche innere und  äussere Landschaften erschlossen.   Was bedeutet Planetarisches Bewusstsein ausgedrückt in Kunst, Kulturentwicklung und in einer gelebten Tiefenökologie? Wie erleben wir  Übergänge, Mutationen und Rites of Passages in Zeiten der Pandemie und  Krise? Wie findet sich Resilienz und schöpferische Kraft im Prozess  zwischen Krankheit und Gesundung?

Parallax-Interview with Aaron Cheak about Origin, Being free of time,  yin and yang forms will, and the difference between Jean Gebsers and Ken Wilbers philosophy. Aaron Cheak, PhD, is a scholar of comparative religion, philosophy, and esotericism. Former president of the International Jean Gebser Society (2013–2015),

with Alexander Bard, Cadell Last, Thomas Hamelryck, and Andrew Sweeny A Parallax Roundtable about philosophy, religion and metaphysics east and west with Alexander Bard, Cadell Last, Thomas Hamelryck and Andrew Sweeny.

Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. In this interview Sophie and Tom Amarque are talking about the connections between myths, archetyps, fungi, gender roles and consciousness.