Dear all,
We are thrilled to introduce a new format to Parallax academy—which is:
Public events and open house on Wednesday
Private member-only groups on Thursday
Public and private podcast events with Q&A on other days
The member-only groups will begin on Wednsday, the 22nd of March. These will include what I am calling:
‘The Work’: George Gurdieff’s Fourth Way.
‘Psycho-magic’: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Way of The Tarot and psychoanalysis.
Higher-tier Members will also be offered free access to past courses on Parallax, including courses with Layman Pascal and Brendan Graham Dempsey. See our membership page for more details.
https://parallax-media.eu/membership
For public events, we will continue as always. Stay tuned for a new series with Marc Gafni beginning on April 2nd and upcoming conversations with John Vervaeke, Zak Stein, and others. We will also have some private events for members only, including a talk with Andrew Cohen, on Monday, March 13, at 13h30 CET. Keep track with our calendar here:
https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar
Another innovation: The doors for our events will now open at 7:30 pm CET or 1:30 pm ET with a 30-minute meditation session. This is voluntary, and people can come and go at this time. We will close the ‘digital gate’ at 8 pm CET and begin our events. This will allow people from other time zones to meditate together.
Some notes on the courses being offered:
The Work - A study group dedicated to George Gurdieff’s Fourth way: We learn about and practice the simple and powerful spiritual technologies of transformation Gurdjieff called ‘self-remembrance’. Our first source will be The Reality of Being The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff by Jeanne De Salzmann, which we will read slowly in the style of Lectio Divina, or total immersion in the text. The goal of the course will be to sharpen our meditation and contemplation skills and develop ‘self-remembrance’ in our daily lives.
Psycho-magic will have a more artistic and psychological emphasis and will be a study of symbolism and archetypes. We will learn to become symbolically literate: in other words, to learn to read the spiritual import of numbers, colours, geometrical forms, alchemical symbols, bodies, and gestures. Jodorowsky likens Tarot to reading music, where the cards are strung together like sentences, and learning them is like learning an archetypal language.
Importantly, the goal of Jodorowsky Tarology is not occultism, fortune-telling, or astrology: it is to gain practical insight into our real lives by observing patterns, and ‘reading the present’ rather than the future. Finally, this course will give participants a basic knowledge of the Classical Marseille Camion Tarot deck, which was restored by Jodorowsky in 1997.
If there are any questions about the groups or Parallax Academy, please write me at andrewpgsweeny@gmail.com
Looking forward to seeing you there!
All the best,
Andrew Sweeny
Ps if people can’t afford membership but are gung ho to be a member or join a group please be in touch, and we can make an arrangement