Teacher at The ‘grandes écoles’ in France. Journalist, Media expert, Editor/Copywriter, and polyvalent with 20 years of teaching experience. Publishes articles for cutting edge cultural magazines like Emerge, Parallax and Rebel Wisdom. Podcaster, YouTuber, and popular blogger. Specialising in all areas of language and communication, advanced writing skills, web design experience, professional musician.
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Meditations on The Tarot: Part 2 – The Magician, The High Priestess, and The Empress
Published on: 12 Aug 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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Meditations on The Tarot: Part 1 – The Magician, The High Priestess, and the The Empress
Published on: 11 Aug 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
by Parallax
A Parallax Course with Layman Pascal: Nonduality in the Network Age
Published on: 6 Aug 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
by Parallax
The Parallax View #50: Intellectual Deep Web Extravaganza
Published on: 4 Aug 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
by Parallax
Parallax Sangha #1: The Meaning Apocalypse: A a conversation between Andrew Sweeny and Owen Cox
Published on: 3 Aug 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
by Parallax
Parallax: Deep Future – with Daniel Schmachtenberger and Alexander Bard
Published on: 20 Jul 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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The Parallax Politics Podcast #3: Is gun control possible? (with Thaddeus Russell)
Published on: 12 Jul 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
by Parallax
The Parallax View Ep. 48: Roe vs Wade (with Brent Cooper)
Published on: 27 Jun 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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The Parallax View Ep. 47: What does ‘Left’ mean? (with Brent Cooper)
Published on: 17 Jun 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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Sweeny vs Bard with Owen Cox: Logos, Mythos, and Pathos – The Three Brains
Published on: 17 Jun 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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CADELL LAST: Zarathustra and the last man
Published on: 3 Jun 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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ANDREW SWEENY Girard, tantra and the scapegoat mechanism
Published on: 28 May 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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ZAK STEIN Education and propaganda
Published on: 28 May 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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OWEN COX Introduction to Marshall McLuhan : Visual vs Acoustic Space
Published on: 28 May 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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JOHN VERVAEKE and CHRISTOPHER MASTROPIETRO Religion and psycho technologies
Published on: 28 May 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
by Parallax
OWEN COX. Jordan Peterson: The Accidental Marxist
Published on: 28 May 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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PAGEAU, BARD, HAMELRYCK, and SWEENY – Religion for the Apocalypse
Published on: 28 May 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
by Parallax
OWEN COX René Girard : Battling to the end
Published on: 28 May 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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THOMAS HAMELRYCK René Girard Mimetic desire and religion in digital culture w
Published on: 28 May 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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WOLFGANG PALAVER René Girard: Mimetic theory and human violence
Published on: 28 May 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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OWEN COX Sexual Personae: An introduction to Camille Paglia
Published on: 28 May 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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JOHN AIGNER and HAJEE PEPPING: The Frontiers of Masculinity
Published on: 28 May 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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FANNY, RAVEN, and LOVISA: The future of the feminine
Published on: 28 May 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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OLE BJERG The meaning crisis in academia
Published on: 28 May 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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ANDREW SWEENY The Realms of War and Desire
Published on: 28 May 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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Layman Pascal: What is tantra?
Published on: 27 May 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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Alex Ebert: Death and The cool
Published on: 14 May 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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Daniel Frage: Ontological design
Published on: 14 May 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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Parallax-Dialogue: Eros and Libido in a time between worlds
Published on: 2 May 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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The Murder of Eros with Marc Gafni
Published on: 28 Apr 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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Parallax book club: Ontological Design with DANIEL FRAGA
Published on: 25 Apr 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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Sweeny vs Bard #54: A class of Paradigms: The war in Ukraine from a meta-historical perspective
Published on: 23 Apr 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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Is Layman Pascal a Guru? A parallax dialogue with Andrew Sweeny
Published on: 16 Apr 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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The Parallax View Ep. 41: Where is Baby Jesus?
Published on: 16 Apr 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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The Parallax View Ep 40: Cause célèbre
Published on: 9 Apr 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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Parallax Course with Layman Pascal: Rebuilding Spirituality
Published on: 20 Mar 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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Strange Attractor Roundtable Ep 5: New Organizational Models for a Game B World
Published on: 18 Mar 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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The Parallax View Ep. 34: Cuddled to Death
Published on: 26 Feb 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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Marc Gafni: A Return to Eros
Published on: 18 Feb 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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Parallax-Interview with Jim Rutt
Published on: 10 Feb 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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Crazy Wisdom with Layman Pascal
Published on: 24 Jan 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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Sweeny, Bard, Hamelryck, and Last: Capitalism, Attentionalism, and Mimetic Theory
Published on: 21 Jan 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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The Parallax View Ep. 28: The Abraham-Dilemma
Published on: 14 Jan 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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The Parallax View Ep. 27: Mass formation Psychosis
Published on: 8 Jan 22 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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Sweeny, Bard, Hamelyrick, and Last: Towards a Metaphysical Totality
Published on: 1 Dec 21 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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David Chaim Smith: What is Black Aether? A Parallax Clip
Published on: 22 Nov 21 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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David Chaim Smith: The mystical view
Published on: 22 Nov 21 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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Cadell Last: ‘Peterson situates love as a key to truth and meaningful revelation’
Published on: 3 Nov 21 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
by Parallax
Zak Stein: “I see an escalation of political polarization”
Published on: 30 Oct 21 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
by Parallax
Parallax-Interview with Tomas Björkman
Published on: 27 Oct 21 in Andrew Sweeny – YouTube
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Originally Published on Parallax: https://parallax-media.eu/andrew-sweeny/ivan-illichs-hour-of-legibilityContinue reading on Medium »
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This post is just to let you know that I will be hosting, along with my good friends Owen Cox and Eskil Avelon, an educational gathering…Continue reading on Medium »
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Meditations on my conversation with Tammy PetersonContinue reading on Medium »
The word patriarchy has come to mean an oppressive power structure run by men and the systematic abuse and exclusion of women. It…Continue reading on Medium »
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The next Messiah won’t be televisedContinue reading on Medium »
Recently, I published a series of short meditations on philia, one of the classical of greek forms of love/friendship, a term which means…Continue reading on Medium »
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A talk given at The European Men’s gathering in Denmark, August 2019Continue reading on Medium »
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Originally published on Parallax (https://www.parallax-magazin.de) on July 1, 2020Jean-Jacques Rousseau got it backwards when he said ‘Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.’ On the contrary, men and
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Paul Cézanne’s ‘Nature morte de pêches et poiresOriginally published at https://www.parallax-magazin.de on June 11, 2020.Now is the time to re-invent the world, to make it beautiful. We need to actually become beautiful,
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Beauty has become an ugly little word. Because we’ve got it all wrong.We think it is waxed bodies, engineered curves, or a youthful glow. But real beauty not, as Byung-Chul
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Awakening from The Meaning Crisis (Episodes 49,50) commentary. Concluding Remarkshttps://youtu.be/kkykBqApP4AMaking my way through the 50 videos of ‘Awakening From The Meaning Crisis’ has been similar to reading a big fat
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A short commentary on John Vervaeke’s Awakening from The Meaning Crisis (Episodes 46, 47, and 48)https://youtu.be/qrkqopjEceUKairosIn the final episodes of ‘Awakening from The Meaning Crisis’ series, John Vervaeke proposes certain ‘prophets
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Some notes Covid 19 and beyondThe Rashomon gate which Kurosawa’s crew constructed for Rashomon (1950)“Corpses piled on bridges, corpses blocking off a whole street at the intersection, corpses displaying every manner of
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A short commentary on John Vervaeke’s Awakening from The Meaning Crisis (Episodes 43, 44, and 45)In the present meaning crisis, according to John Vervaeke, we tend to ‘conflate the having mode
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RationalityA short commentary on John Vervaeke’s Awakening from The Meaning Crisis (Episodes 40, 41, and 42)To be rational usually means to be good at logical games, to be able to see
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“The Rule is: Don’t go to king’s landing if you are Ned Stark“— Jordan HallNed Stark from The Game of ThronesThere has been a rather heady conversation online of late about the
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A commentary on Venkatesh Rao’s article: The Internet of BeefsI’d like take a crack at a neologism invented by Venkatesh Rao called The Internet of beefs in his article of the
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A new season of Sweeny vs Bard begins with a passionate lecture at the Maniphesto Media Academia by the Bardster about media, men and women, and so many other things.
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After listening to Alex Ebert’s fantastic presentation ‘Dead Cool’ at the Stoa we thought we would invite Alex, who like Alexander Bard, is a pop star turned philosopher for a
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A conversation where media artist and scholar Orsolya Bajusz tells her story about how as an activist she was attacked and scapegoated by a social justice lynch mob and how
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Our third discussion of various Tantric traditions and Tantra’s place in the west. What are the causes and conditions necessary for Tantra to flourish? What is the value of Neo
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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
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Sweeny vs Bard S03E10: Western Tantra? – with Thomas Hamelryck Can Tantra flourish in western society that is predominantly Christian and Moslem? What are the historical roots of Tantra? Is
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Links: Parallax Magazine Alexander Bard’s Books; The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Syntheism – Creating God in the Internet Age (2014) Digital Libido – Sex, power and violence in the network society
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The scapegoat mob and the Exodus, Tantra and Zoroastrianism, Axial Age vs Bronze age, Egyptian vs Persian culture, The two river systems, Hegel, Nietzsche, and so much more. Two hours
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Clinton Ignatov is a Mcluhan scholar and has a labyrinthine mind like an eccentric Renaissance alchemist. He has a great YouTube channel called ‘Concerned Netizen’ where he goes into the
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Links: Parallax Youtube Newsletter Links to books by Alexander Bard with Jan Söderqvist: Cadell Last’s books Sex, God, and Masculinity: Global Brain Singularity Alexander Bard’s Books; The Futurica Trilogy (2012)
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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
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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
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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
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Our first conversation with Cadell Last, an extraordinary new voice on the scene whose beard at least competes with Alexander’s, and who has written a great new book called Sex,
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A new season of Sweeny vs Bard with our now regular guest Thomas Hamelryck. In this discussion Alexander brings up the subject of forgiveness and ties this to the heroic
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The final episode in Season 2 of Sweeny vs Bard with our now regular guest Thomas Hamelryck. We go further in the discussion of the anoject, the scapegoat, and the
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Our latest discussion with Thomas Hamelryck, in which Alexander introduces his concept: The Anoject – a neologism he invented which means, roughly speaking, the anonymous accuser. We expand on this
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Our latest discussion with Thomas Hamelryck, in which Alexander introduces his concept: The Anoject – a neologism he invented which means, roughly speaking, the anonymous accuser. More discussion on the
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A long awaited conversation between my favorite interlocutors, and two philosophical and visionary geniuses of our time—who, as I mention in the beginning—are opposite character types. Nevertheless, both men converge
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How did an obscure esoteric school begun by the French writer and sufi René Guénon and his fascist disciple Julius Evola at the beginning of the 20th begin to influence
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Here we include Thomas Hamelryck, scientist and machine learning expert, and a practitioner of Buddhist Tantra. Thomas is part of a discussion group called the Intellectual deep web. How do
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Here we include Thomas Hamelryck, scientist and machine learning expert, and a practitioner of Buddhist Tantra. Thomas is part of a discussion group called the Intellectual deep web. How do
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Some topics covered in this wide ranging lateral conversation: Alexander’s experience with Covid 19, Pathos and Mythos, The Symbolic and the imaginary, Jaques Lacan and Rene Girard, Moses and
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Some topics covered in this wide ranging lateral conversation: Jordan Peterson; A plural sensocracy; Process and Event; Phallus and Matrix; Men and Purpose; Dictatorship; Tonality and etiquette; Cancel culture
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Andrew Sweeny retweeted: Shout out to @Bardissimo @andrewpgsweeny @OGRoseWriting
Andrew Sweeny retweeted: “The Logos, The Mythos, and The Pathos – The Three Human Brains and their Clashing Narratives” Join the season finale of the interactive Parallax Media Academy, with Andrew Sweeny, Alexander Bard & Owen Cox, on Wednesday 15 June at 8 pm CET. parallax-media.eu/sweeny-vs-bard…
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Parallax media academy is thrilled to present Cadell Last’s intensely personal and stellar introduction to Thus Spoke Zarathustra. A two-hour Nietzschean orgy. The bridge to the overman parallax-media.eu/the-parallax-m…
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