Dear friends of Parallax,
We are very happy to offer you great new heterodox content with our May-newsletter.
First and foremost, our Parallax-interview with Dr. Gad Saad is up, on parasites of the mind, cultural immunology, and the evolutiony arms-race, here.
Episode 2 of the Parallax-Premium-Podcast with Andrew Sweeny and Tom Amarque is up. Tom and Andrew ramble about current projects, being construct-aware, memetic replicators, the well-tempered personality, sex, tantra and culture as a system of domestication ... and somehow all of this belongs together ... and you know what: You can support us now!
Andrew Sweeny did a killer interview with Greg Kaminsky on GNOSIS AND THE TANTRIC PRELIMINARIES.
Greg Kaminski is a man of gravity, learning, and dedication. In our wonderful two hour conversation, the creator of the podcast ‘Occult of Personality’ and author of the new book ‘Pronaos: Reflections on the Preliminary Practices of Buddhist Tantra from a Western Perspective’, shared something fantastic: that a particular series of preliminary practices in Buddhist Tantra known as ngondro is now openly available to people in the west, in glorious and poetic english—in full and unabashed form. These practices, which are usually associated with traditional Tibetan Buddhism and thought to be too arcane, too difficult, and too ‘eastern’, can now by western people.
Also, SWEENY VS BARD S03E11: WITH THOMAS HAMELRYCK is here!
The Tantric path gives us a Parallax or another view of reality.
A description of the 9 vehicles of Buddhism including Tantra, comparing the Tantric approach with Western ‘eventological’ religion and Zoroastrianism.
This talk is shorter than usual because the depth of this topic requires at least 3 more talks, and this might be easier to digest. But it is still full of our usual mischievous fun and interruption of the banal.
About Parallax
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The word ‘parallax’ stems from the old greek παράλλαξις parállaxis, which means to shift the viewpoint of the observer. The name suggests psychoactive and alternative sense-making, as opposed to mainstream narratives and ideologies.
Through our work with various European ‘digital tribes’, we create media and Bildung (education), and promote social, cognitive and spiritual development. Moreover, we aim to provide a European counterpoint to the dominant anglo-saxon narratives.
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