Parallax Newsletter #57 - Tonight at 8pm CET - ALEXANDER BARD AND ZEVI SLAVIN
A ZOROASTRIAN, A JEW, AND A BUDDHIST
What happens when a Zoroastrian, a Jew, and a Buddhist get together and have a conversation? Come and join us to find out. The Mystic Orders along The Silk Road in conversation.
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
8:00 PM 9:30 PM CET (Central European Time)
Free Public Event with Q&A: ZOOM LINK
Recent Podcasts and Videos
Parallax Academy #4 - John Michael Greer - Magic and Divination
Owen Cox and Andrew Sweeny, in conversation with the widely respected author and blogger in fields ranging from nature spirituality to the future of industrial society. John Michael Greer is the author of more than seventy books, including sixteen novels, and blogs weekly at ecosophia.net.
Parallax Academy# 3 - Andrew Cohen - The Guru and The Shadow?
Most Gurus wouldn’t admit to having started a cult. Imagine Osho apologising for creating his cult in Oregon, for instance, where his students practised actual bio-terrorism! Impossible to conceive of! But Andrew Cohen is different—a humbled and repentant Guru, which may seem like a contradiction in terms. In any case, Cohen’s harrowing story of meeting the shadow of the Guru is compelling. And in our merciless world of cancel culture, I think it deserves to be told. Cohen has written a new book entitled “When Shadow meets the Bodhisattva”—it could have been called The shadow and the Guru. While he clearly admits his failures and blind spots, he also defends his achievements and the Guru principle in general. A word without great spiritual masters—and access to a vertical dimension—is a postmodern flatland. And Cohen asks the question: what does the Guru look like in the post-post-modern age?
Sacred Technology & the Sacred Feminine
A new Course with Layman Pascal - starts Sunday, April 2nd.
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A Metamodern Approach to Yin/Yang Polarities in the Restoration of Spirituality for the Age of the Metacrisis
This new course from PARALLAX ACADEMY’s “Rebuilding Spirituality” curriculum - and the third one with Layman Pascal - is an in-depth exploration of gender metaphors and polarized dualities from a metamodern & integrative perspective. Human technology has appeared historically to be a hypermasculine (or YANG) force that has excluded and marginalized YIN aspects of reality. However, the ongoing progress in physical, informational and psychological technologies has revealed a world that largely corresponds to ancient notions of the Sacred Feminine. It is mysterious, complex, organic, relational, transrational, embodied and flowing.
How do we re-engage and honor those dimensions of existence without reifying the dualistic metaphors, misjudging the inclusive and plural nature of human gender or ignoring the role of a revivified masculinity in emerging spiritual and religious culture? What are the different ways that these metaphors show up in diverse domains of human experience relevant to the contemporary emergence of the Sacred? And what sorts of personal and collective practices take us to the living edge of these queries?
Join Layman for embodied wisdom-skill practices, supportive depth-oriented feedback in live Q&A sessions, shared emergence spaces and special access to advanced theory modules explaining the view necessary to make sense of how we reformat authentic transformational spirituality for our strange and disturbing times.
The Structure of Magick - A View into the Ecology of Psyche
A 7-part series on the Ecology of Psyche, written and narrated by Tom Amarque.
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