Parallax Newsletter #106
Summer and Fall Courses: Belonging Again; From Crisis to Crossing; No Bullshit Path
Belonging Again: An Address with O.G. Rose - Starts this Sunday, July 7th!
SUNDAYS JULY 7/14/21/28; AUGUST 4 2024
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.
From Crisis to Crossing - Clarifying, Widening, and Focusing The Eye of Value (with Marc Gafni and Zak Stein)
SATURDAYS: JULY 13/20/27/AUGUST 3 2024
In this course, Gafni and Stein deepen the themes raised in First Principles and First Values. The Eye of Value is contrasted with the Eye-of-Anti-Value, and the topics of anthro-ontology, story, and value are explored in depth. Marc and Zak will engage participants in a series of dialogues at the edges of human knowledge, where there is a dance between the languages of science and the sacred, and between the lineages of ancient wisdom and our living memory of the future.
This September: In Search of Unconditional Love - With Guy Ferré: The Lee Lozowick No Bullshit Path Of Transformation
SATURDAYS SEPTEMBER 14/21/28-2024
In this three-week introductory course, we will explore the foundations of an authentic path, addressing both the hindrances and the beauties along the way. We will also discuss the importance of having a living human teacher to help our hearts expand.
Ultimately, only we can know the depth of our yearning for an authentic inner life. So, where do our priorities lie? The Universe, God, or Truth has no choice but to respond to this sacred need.
The Parallax View #133: Giorgio Agamben
Tom Amarque and Andrew Sweeny dig into the philosophy of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben.