Invitation to The Forge
with Layman Pascal
PARALLAX FORGE
is not an online course in the traditional sense. It is a four-week future-crafting event, bringing individual and social goals into alignment to adress the meta-crisis. The Forge is a narrative transformation engine altering what futures become possible. It’s not a hub, container, or incubator. It´s your chance to co-create within a “smart-group” the future to come in a meaning way.
The Forge brings intellectual inquiry, ritualized reflection, and collective sense-making within a consciously held liminal field. Each cycle is guided by mythotechnician Layman Pascal, acting less as lecturer and more as shamanic elicitor of change, helping participants read the deeper patterns beneath their personal and collective stories and align them to possible collective futures.
This is not about acquiring information. Across four weeks, participants engage in:
Guided provocations and framing impulses
Live dialogues and collective inquiry
Narrative reframing and future-oriented sense-making
A shared field in which new perspectives can crystallize
Spontaneous invocations of futures
Tickets include:
Live access to all sessions of The Forge I
As preparation access to all previous Parallax Courses by Layman Pascal from the Library:
“We need new kinds of gymnasiums in which we can figure out our personal and shared impressions of our actual life and world. On the basis of this more reliable sensemaking, we can forge exciting new visions of plausible or miraculous futures that are worth fighting for. In this process, we can start immediately practicing to be a network of people who are smarter, deeper, stronger, healthier, more existentially satisfied, and more mutually capable of trusting and being trustworthy for each other.” - Layman Pascal
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