In this engaging conversation, Marc Gafni dives into Hebrew Kabbalah's Tree of Life, focusing on the 6th Sepirot, Tiferet. They explore beauty, harmony, and the impact of pornography on internet technology. The discussion also delves into the art of placing attention in love, the nuances of beauty, and concludes with a heartfelt chanting session praising each other.

Max Borders, author of The Social Singularity and The Decentralist, discusses topics such as the Gray Robes, political symbolism, decentralization, emotional regulation, persuasion, opting out as resistance, the practice of virtues, mutualism, questioning accreditation, and embracing digital tools while valuing face-to-face interactions.

Marc Gafni discusses the Tree of Life in Hebrew Kabbalah, focusing on Sephirot Chesed and Gevurah. He explores CosmoErotic Humanism, boundary breaking in Hasidism, and the importance of radical originality and heresy for transformation.

Again, Tom and Andrew tackle the important things, from pain to poetry to Christ and cunning vixens.

Andrew questions Marc about the famous Tree of Life and the ten Sephirot in Hebrew Kabbalah. An introduction and a radical interpretation. And a discussion on the 2nd and 3rdd Sepirot: Chokhmah and Binah 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. " Artist links: Website Dr. Marc Gafni: http://www.marcgafni.com Radical Kabbalah: https://www.marcgafni.com/main-teachings/radical-kabbalah/ Parallax Academy: https://www.parallax-media.com/2024-courses-and-events Membership and Donation: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar

Tom and Andrew ramble about justification-systems

A deep conversation and a plug for Luke’s New course: https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/the-hard-way-with-luke-behncke In the early 20th Century, Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff brought an ancient system of personal transformation to the western world known as the ‘Fourth Way’ or the ‘Work’. He claimed that this system was the source of all spiritual traditions and now adapted for the modern world. Its focus is on the individual and community to understand the energies and forces of their nature through direct experience. In doing so, it would become possible to contact a different order of reality that can deepen the experience of life. Gurdjieff was clear that it is the most difficult work that anyone can undertake, but also the most productive. It calls for relentless authentic questioning and a discipline of special efforts that can enable a quality of relationship that nothing else can give. Gurdjieff affirmed that a sustained work of this kind would accelerate the necessary transformation of men and women to meet the demands of a responsible life while fulfilling their essential purpose. Join Luke Behncke in practically exploring some of the tenets of the Work on Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way - THE HARD WAY - from the Parallax Academy. Live sessions will be recorded, and participants will have access to a video of each recorded class. Participants will have one-on-one interviews with the instructor. Sign up here for this one time exclusive, never to be repeated experience. Links: Our Substack: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Homepage: www.Parallax-media.eu Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar"

The second part in a series with Bonnitta Roy, exploring metaphysics and transcendental emergentism—and other ideas circling around Alexander's new book Process and Event. With Special Guest Alexander Elung Subscribe to our Substack: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Bonnitta is a visioneer, insight guide and horse whisperer. Her work is deeply embodied and grounded, and over the last several years, she's shown us how to trust the intelligence of life again. She is founder of Alderlore Insight Center and curates wickedly provocative and seriously surprising conversations at The Pop-UP School: https://bonnittaroy.substack.com/,; https://a.co/d/4ZLYDnuLinks: Alexander Bard's Books: Process and Event, (2023)The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Syntheism – Creating God in the Internet Age (2014) Digital Libido - Sex, power and violence in the network society (2017)"

Tom and Andrew discuss dreams, the underrated sexiness of Wilbur, lucid dreaming and dream work, the importance of lineage and specific practices, scapegoating and enemies at the second tier, unveiling the secrets of Kabala, transcendental emergence and habitual patterns, and a humorous conversation about integration, transcendence, and the eternal game of genitals.

Brendan Graham Dempsey, writer, poet, and farmer, along with Tomas Björkman, entrepreneur and financier, discuss the transition from postmodernism to metamodernism. They explore topics such as systems theory, integrating insights from postmodernism, the postmodern volitional move, understanding the postmodern individual, and the complexities of metamodernism. They also touch on the relationship between metamodernism and capitalism and how to navigate that relationship in the current economic system.