Parallax Newsletter #104
Summer of Imagination; The Parallax View with Layman Pascal; Belonging Again with O.G. Rose; Love or Die with Dr. Marc Gafni - Tonight!
Course: Parallax Movie Club ‘24: Summer of Imagination
With John Vervaeke, Layman Pascal, Robert Gray, and Andrew Sweeny
JUNE 15/22/29/JULY 6 - 2024
How can great films bring joy, fun, and imagination into our lives? Find out more here:
The Parallax View #131: Gurdjieff for a time between worlds (with Layman Pascal
Layman Pascal joins to talk about his new book on Georges I. Gurdjieff: “Gurdjieff for a time between words”. Great book, check it out.
Course: Belonging Again: An Address with O.G. Rose
SUNDAYS
JULY 7/14/21/28; AUGUST 4 2024
WHAT IS BELONGING AGAIN ABOUT?
Our identities, religions, nationalities, occupations, life choices, philosophies, political ideologies, political leaders—none of these are “given” anymore: whatever we face, we find ourselves full of questions. “Is this true? Is this best? Is this valid?” We live during what James Joyce in “The Dead” called ‘a thought-tormented age,’ which, as James K.A. Smith put it when writing on Charles Taylor, is to say that our world is a ‘contested, cross-pressured, haunted world [...] [T]raditional definitions of reality which previously provided stable [guides] for living everyday life (in courtship, marriage, child-rearing, religious faith and practice, interpersonal exchange and the like) are increasingly fluid, fragmented, and deprived of plausibility.’ Might this prove to be an opportunity though? Indeed, it might.
Belonging Again describes our sociological moment where nothing is “given” and yet we find ourselves forced to confront the inescapable reality that freedom isn’t always free. We’re able to be whoever we want to be, but this was made possible by emptying our possibilities of significance. Everything is just like everything else, and so we find ourselves like that donkey between two equal-sized piles of grain of grain: starving, unable to choose, and tempted to flee. If we’re not going to seclude ourselves or engage in some exodus though, we must find a way to achieve “rest” and “belonging” around others who are very different from us and in a world that is ever-changing. And none of this is “natural,” suggesting we will have to become “super-natural” or something—somehow. Furthermore, we will have to “scale” the conditions which make this possible, and how can that be done without slipping into oppression and totalitarianism? The challenge is great.
- Full Ticket includes 5 Sunday Zoom Classes with Q&A/ 5 Digital Campfires Zoom discussion groups
- All tickets include the digital versions of Belonging Again and other books by O.G. Rose
Tonight: Love or Die #12: With Marc Gafni - The Tree of Life - Malkuth
Dr. Marc leads an exploration into ‘The Divine Story’ or or the ‘The Tree of Life’ or the Ten Sefirot. This is our final episode in this part of our series.
How to create a new story of value? The stakes are high. It’s Love or Die!
Sunday, June 2nd, 2024
8 PM CET; 2 PM ET; 11 AM PT