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Death and Rebirth of EuropeA recorded conversation between members of Parallax and Dark Renaissance Productions discussing the idea of Europe’s decline and the possibility of transformation.The conversation also relates to a longer-term collaborative project planned for Paris in 2026.Timestamps00:00 – Introduction and context02:10 – Where the idea “death and rebirth of Europe” comes from06:45 – Europe as culture, history, and myth14:30 – Sense of decline and loss of orientation23:20 – Tradition, modernity, and rupture33:40 – Is Europe already dead?43:10 – What “rebirth” could mean54:00 – Future conversations and Paris project1:01:30 – Closing remarks

January 14th 2026 Tom and Andrew discuss Camille Paglia´ Sexual Personae

DescriptionDr. Gafni is interviewed by Andrew Sweeny. The central question: How to go beyond a mere tragic view of life? Invitationhttps://www.parallax-media.com/courses/pretragic-tragic-and-posttragicThe course includes three weekly recorded lectures with Q&A and three weekly Digital Campfire sessions, where practices and inquiries are introduced and the material is reflected on in community.Start date: Sunday, January 25Time: 8:00pm CET · 2:00pm EST · 11:00am PSTPrice: €300 / €100 tiers

DescriptionIn this talk, Dr. Marc Gafni introduces a central framework of his teaching: pre-tragic, tragic, and post-tragic as recurring stations of human experience. These are not developmental stages or psychological categories, but existential positions we move through repeatedly in love, desire, power, intimacy, creativity, meaning, and our relationship to God.Pre-tragic clarity gives way to rupture. Desire becomes complicated. Power distorts. Intimacy fractures. The question is not how to avoid this passage, but how to understand it—and how a different kind of clarity can emerge on the other side. Post-tragic clarity is not a return to innocence, but a second clarity that includes uncertainty, depth, and lived complexity.This video serves as an orientation to a three-week course that explores these stations in depth, with particular attention to wounding and how unintegrated wound shapes desire, power, and intimacy.InvitationThe course includes three weekly recorded lectures with Q&A and three weekly Digital Campfire sessions, where practices and inquiries are introduced and the material is reflected on in community.Start date: Sunday, January 25Time: 8:00pm CET · 2:00pm EST · 11:00am PSTPrice: €300 / €150 tiersFurther details and registration can be found via the link below.https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/pretragic-tragic-and-posttragic

Struggling to make your stories truly land? Years of writing taught us that sentences have a job, stories have an inner logic, and vision organizes a life—not just a project. This course condenses that transformation into three live modules with hands-on practice.📅 Start Date:Saturday, Jan 17, 2026⏰ Time: 8:00 PM CET | 2:00 PM EST | 11:00 AM PST💻 Format: 3 Zoom Classes + 3 Practice Sessions💶 Price: €260 / 200€ / 100€ tiersModules:1️⃣ Writing: Learn what fiction sentences are really for2️⃣ Story: Make your story blossom and resonate3️⃣ Vision: Transform inspiration into actionable writingWho This Course Is For:Writers who’ve been writing seriously for yearsThose who feel stuck or sense something missingWriters ready to make their work come alive🔗 Sign Up / More Info: https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/writing-literary-fiction-with-og-rose

December 15th 2025 Andrew Sweeny takes a look into the future

Join author Marianne Costa for a deep dive into the Minor Arcana of the Tarot de Marseille.🔥 COURSE: Cracking the Code of the Minor ArcanaLink: https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/cracking-the-code-of-the-minor-arcana-part-1Connect:Marianne Costa: https://mariannecosta.com/Parallax Courses and Events: https://www.parallax-media.com/courses-and-eventsMarianne Costa shares her unique, practical interpretation, treating the tarot as a tool for self-observation and survival in the real world. We explore the four suits (Swords, Cups, Wands, Coins) as representing the basic economics of life, from politics and agriculture to emotions and trade, grounding spiritual wisdom in the concrete everyday. Learn how to stop "esoteric wanking" and start asking the "burning questions" necessary for inner pilgrimage and growth.

Andrew Sweeny and Tom Amarque on Europa, feminism, and Tom´s new novel, The Infinite Now.Get all episodes of "The Parallax View" here: https://www.parallax-media.com/overviewTom Amarque´s book "The Infinite Now": https://www.parallax-media.com/books/theinfinitenowAcademy: https://www.parallax-media.com/courses-and-eventsPublishing: https://www.parallax-media.com/parallax-booksSubstack: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Network: https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/ND8NVO1oMB3RjEyi?utm_source=ma

In this profound dialogue, Dr. Marc Gafni and Andrew Sweeny introduce Part Two of the Unique Wound and Unique Self series:“Identifying Your Unique Wound of Desire: From Wounds of Desire to Wounds of Love.”The course begins November 16.Enroll here: 👉 https://www.parallax-media.com/course...Dr. Gafni reveals the deep connection between touch and wounding—the Hebrew word nega means both—and shows how our wounds mark the places where reality touches us most intimately. Together, they explore how desire, eros, and love shape our individuality and how our wounds of desire become the doorway to our unique self and soul’s calling.#MarcGafni #Parallax #UniqueSelf #Desire #Eros #CosmoEroticHumanism #SpiritualPhilosophy #WoundOfDesire #AndrewSweeny #DrMarcGafni #Soulwork

💥 The Offence of Christ: A SymposiumAndrew Sweeny (host) with, Jordan Hall, Luke Behncke, Jordan Hall, and Daniel L. Garner (O.G. Rose) on the provocative question: "Why the world hates Christianity."This is an intense dive into the fundamental, energetic friction between the Christian message and the human ego. We move past culture wars to explore the core demands of transformation.🕊️ Go Deeper: Luke Behncke's CourseLuke Behncke's 3-session course, "Why the World Hates Christianity," explores the ultimate demands of transformation in detail.Enroll Here:https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/why-the-world-hates-christianity-with-luke-behncke#TheOffenceOfChrist #Christianity #Logos #Theosis #SpiritualGrowth #JordanHall #OGRose #ParallaxPodcast

This talk is about money and capitalism, and it´s relationshiop to spirituality.Upcoming course: https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/phaenomenologyofwillAcademy: https://www.parallax-media.com/courses-and-eventsPublishing: https://www.parallax-media.com/parallax-booksSubstack: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Network: https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/ND8NVO1oMB3RjEyi?utm_source=ma

A Conversation with Luke BehnckeGurdjieff spoke of hidden currents—of electricity, attention, and energy—long before our world was woven in wires and screens. In this dialogue, Luke Behncke explores how Gurdjieff’s uncanny vision can guide us to remain awake amidst the digital spell, and how the Internet itself may be seen as a field of forces demanding new forms of consciousness.👉Explore our library and courses with Luke: https://www.parallax-media.com/library

With Tom Amarquewww.parallax-media.comThis talk is ostensibly about the culture war that is, to agreater or lesser extent, occupying all our minds right now. But I don’t wantto get lost in the political trenches. Instead, I’d like to shift thehorizontal axis to a vertical one and see what lies underneath.We can’t talk about the culture war without talking aboutfeminism, and we can’t talk about feminism without Carl Jung. Perhaps, intalking about the latter, we can shed some light on the former—or at leastbring in a parallax view. That may sound like a daring endeavor, but let’s gofor it and try to weave politics, psychology, and what we might call deepsociology together.

The question I want to pursue with this piece is: “How do we relate to the future?”Tom Amarque is writer, philosopher, podcast host, editor & publisher. His recent book is ‘Phenomenology of will’, which will also be subject to a online couse in November 2025. He founded the German publishing house Phaenomen-Verlag in 2009 and Parallax-Media in 2019. Tom currently lives in Palma, Spain. Contact him a tomamarque@yahoo.de

For the Benefit of Mr. Kite.

The Path of the Wounded Hero: Becoming Homo Amorwith Dr. Marc GafniCourse begins Sunday, September 28th, 2025At the heart of every myth and every human life lies the wound—not a detour, but the very portal to depth, heroism, and love. In this transformative Parallax course, Dr. Marc Gafni guides us into the mystery of the wounded hero: the one who does not bypass pain or heartbreak, but alchemizes it into wonder, service, and the realization of Homo Amor.This course is part of Parallax’s ongoing exploration of story, myth, and spiritual philosophy in our time, grounded in the vision of Cosmoerotic Humanism: a new story of value for our world.✨ Learn more and enroll here: The Path of the Wounded Hero – https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/the-path-of-the-wounded-hero

The boys are back and continue to ramble about the deepest narrative structures of the west. Yihaa!

In this wild, expansive "Crazy Wisdom" conversation, Alexander Bard, Tim Pickrill, Turiyoa Strojanov, Andrew Sweeny, and Turio dive deep into Vajrayana Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Peruvian shamanism, and the tension between Rangtong and Shentong philosophies. They explore mountain vs. city practice, the archetype of the monk vs. the sly man in the world, and the importance of serving the sociont. Ecstatic mysticism, harsh truths, psycho-spiritual integration, tantric paradoxes, and plenty of provocation. Philosophy on fire.Learn more about the speakers:Alexander Bard – @Bardissimo on XTim Pickerill - https://themysteriousdeepblack.substack.com/Andrew Sweeny - https://www.parallax.coach/Homepage: https://www.parallax-media.com/Academy: https://www.parallax-media.com/courses-and-eventsPublishing: https://www.parallax-media.com/parallax-booksSubstack: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Network: https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/ND8NVO1oMB3RjEyi?utm_source=ma

A rich and provocative conversation at the crossroads of philosophy, education, and technology, and a bold defense of religion in the modern age.Three intellectual titans — Alexander Bard, Marc Gafni, and Zak Stein — come together in this deep-dive dialogue, discovering surprising points of unity across their metaphysical differences. Learn more about the speakers:Alexander Bard – @Bardissimo on XMarc Gafni – https://www.marcgafni.comZak Stein – https://www.zakstein.orgHomepage: https://www.parallax-media.com/Academy: https://www.parallax-media.com/courses-and-eventsPublishing: https://www.parallax-media.com/parallax-booksSubstack: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Network: https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/ND8NVO1oMB3RjEyi?utm_source=ma

Zak Stein moderates an intense and wide-ranging conversation between Dr. Iain McGilchrist. and Dr. Marc Gafni and The dialogue spans the sacred nature of story, the loss of value and eros, the nature of evil, and the deep structures shaping culture today.Iain McGilchrist is a British psychiatrist, literary scholar, and one of the most important philosophical voices of our time. He is best known for The Master and His Emissary and The Matter With Things, where he argues that the left and right hemispheres of the brain attend to the world in fundamentally different ways, with massive consequences for civilization. His work bridges neuroscience, philosophy, art, and depth psychology, offering a vision of human consciousness grounded in attention, embodiment, and reverence.Dr. Marc Gafni is a visionary philosopher, spiritual teacher, and social theorist. A former Orthodox rabbi with a doctorate from Oxford University, he is the co-founder of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion and a leading voice in the articulation of “cosmo-erotic humanism.” His books include Your Unique Self, A Return to Eros, and Radical Kabbalah. Gafni’s work fuses Jewish mysticism, integral theory, and Western philosophy to explore the nature of self, eros, and value at the evolutionary edge of human identity and spirituality.Zak Stein is a Harvard-trained education and transformation philosopher known for his work on developmental ethics, meta-crisis, and the future of human learning.#IainMcGilchrist #MarcGafni #ZakStein #Eros #Story #MeaningCrisis #IntegralPhilosophy #TheMasterAndHisEmissary #CosmoEroticHumanism