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Sweeny vs Bard Season 3 Ep. 5: Sex, Ritual, and Religion – with Thomas Hamelryck

A heated and passionate discussion about our usual topics: Process and Event in relation to sex and religion. Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism and Zoroastrianism – popular sutric religion and behind the ‘barred absolute’.  The place of sex and violence in ritual.  And so much more. Links: Parallax Youtube Newsletter Links to books by Alexander Bard  with […]

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Sweeny vs Bard Season 3 Ep. 5: Sex, Ritual, and Religion – with Thomas Hamelryck

A heated and passionate discussion about our usual topics: Process and Event in relation to sex and religion. Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism and Zoroastrianism – popular sutric religion and behind the ‘barred absolute’.  The place of sex and violence in ritual.  And so much more. Links: Parallax Youtube Newsletter Links to books by Alexander Bard  with

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Sonia Shah “We’re Always Strangers, Ourselves” – Live from IMPAKT Festival

Playing for Team Human today, investigative journalist and author of “The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move,” Sonia Shah. Shah challenges conventional assumptions about migration and reveals how it has long been central to the human experience. Further, she looks ahead to how climate change will force the next

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053 Tuesday Ryan-Hart – Being the Medicine for One Another

Systems change strategist and facilitator Tuesday Ryan-Hart explores the trauma, care, tenderness, and sacredness that are underneath our discussions of equity and systemic injustice. She and Terry consider which mindsets, skills, and relational practices can enable us to stay in the complexity of difficult conversations and collective healing without losing sight of our common humanity

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Using and Misusing History – Premodern lessons in a postmodern world

On last week’s edition of CNN’s Global Public Square, host Fareed Zakaria ardently condemned Donald Trump’s attack on the election, drawing dark parallels to the rise of Hitler and Nazism after World War 1. His first guest, former National Security Advisor, General H. R. McMaster, chided Fareed for “misusing history”, arguing that the US has

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Sweeny vs Bard Season 3 Ep. 4: The return of Religion, with Paul LLoyd Robson of Maniphesto

Paul LLoyd Robson is the initiator of the European Men’s movement and head of Maniphesto. He’s also an Orthodox Christian, and here he sits down with a Vajrayana Buddhist and a Zoroastrian.  Besides an interest in Men’s group, one thing that the three of us have in common is that we have all converted to

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Sweeny vs Bard Season 3 Ep. 4: The return of Religion, with Paul LLoyd Robson of Maniphesto

Paul LLoyd Robson is the initiator of the European Men’s movement and head of Maniphesto. He’s also an Orthodox Christian, and here he sits down with a Vajrayana Buddhist and a Zoroastrian.  Besides an interest in Men’s group, one thing that the three of us have in common is that we have all converted to

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Nadia Eghbal – The Making and Maintenance of our Open Source Infrastructure

Nadia Eghbal is particularly interested in infrastructure, governance, and the economics of the internet – and how the dynamics of these subjects play out in software, online communities and generally living life online. Eghbal, who interviewed hundreds of developers while working to improve their experience at GitHub, argues that modern open source offers us a

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052 Jude Currivan – The Center of the Cosmic Hologram Is Love

Cosmologist, futurist, and mystic Jude Currivan describes her understanding of the quantum nature of reality, which has profound implications for our planetary crises, and the potentials for creative emergence. In the process, she points to several recent scientific discoveries that reveal a holographic, nonlocal, and conscious universe, and describes the implications for our social and

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Sweeny vs Bard Season 3 Ep. 3: Sexual Apocalypse – Stealing Queer Back From Woke: With Cadell Last and Raven Connolly

Our first live Sweeny vs Bard on Parallax and the most fun we have had yet! Links:    Parallax Magazine Support Parallax on Patreon Cadell Last’s YouTube Channel:   Cadell Last’s books Sex, God, and Masculinity: Global Brain Singularity: Books by Alexander Bard The Futurica Trilogy, with Jan Söderqvist (2012) Syntheism – Creating God in

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