Sweeny vs Bard – Details, episodes & analysis

Alexander Bard unveils Zuvism—blending Zen, Sufism, and Zoroastrianism from the Silk Road. A deep chat with Andrew Sweeny and Tim Pickerill. Esoteric truths, sex, violence—decentralized spirituality for nomads.

The course starts April 2, 2025, at Parallax:

https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/zufism-alexander-bard

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The second part in a series with Bonnitta Roy, exploring metaphysics and transcendental emergentism—and other ideas circling around Alexander's new book Process and Event. With Special Guest Alexander Elung Subscribe to our Substack: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Bonnitta is a visioneer, insight guide and horse whisperer. Her work is deeply embodied and grounded, and over the last several years, she's shown us how to trust the intelligence of life again. She is founder of Alderlore Insight Center and curates wickedly provocative and seriously surprising conversations at The Pop-UP School: https://bonnittaroy.substack.com/,; https://a.co/d/4ZLYDnuLinks: Alexander Bard's Books: Process and Event, (2023)The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Syntheism – Creating God in the Internet Age (2014) Digital Libido - Sex, power and violence in the network society (2017)"

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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

Intro music: Beautiful Machines, By Andrew Sweeny

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 of dynamite.

Links/donations:
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

Intro music: Beautiful Machines, By Andrew Sweeny

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 weeds of this great Canadian scholar who discovered ‘The global village’ and then later renamed it ‘The global theater’.  Alexander Bard’s philosophy is also aimed at, among other things, trying to understand Mcluhanism for the internet age, and contains the same challenging prophetic urgency, which is never moralistic.  Enjoy this sparking conversation and deep dive!

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Parallax
Youtube
Newsletter

Links to books by Alexander Bard  with Jan Söderqvist:

Concerned Netizen  

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

Intro music: Beautiful Machines, By Andrew Sweeny

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)
Syntheism – Creating God in the Internet Age (2014)
Digital Libido - Sex, power and violence in the network society

Intro music: Beautiful Machines, By Andrew Sweeny

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 Jan Söderqvist:

The Futurica Trilogy (2012)
Syntheism – Creating God in the Internet Age (2014)
Digital Libido - Sex, power and violence in the network society

Intro music: Beautiful Machines, By Andrew Sweeny

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 a religion.  This is a discussion of the men’s movement and an apology for traditional religion.  

Links:
Maniphesto The European Men’s Movement   
Parallax Magazine
Support Parallax on Patreon

Books by Alexander Bard

The Futurica Trilogy, with Jan Söderqvist (2012)
Syntheism – Creating God in the Internet Age with Jan Söderqvist (2014)
Digital Libido - Sex, power and violence in the network society, with Jan Söderqvist (2018)

Our first live Sweeny vs Bard on Parallax and the most fun we have had yet!

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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 the Internet Age with Jan Söderqvist (2014)
Digital Libido - Sex, power and violence in the network society, with Jan Söderqvist (2018)

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, God and Masculinity.  We talked about a lot of things including Freudian psychoanalysis and socio-analysis, a defense of Freud and Hegel, the phallus and the fake phallus,  exodology, and many themes familiar to this podcast. We talked about Alexander’s proposed Pro-topia, a world beyond the barred absolute and of creativity undreamed of. But also of the ‘rites of passage’ that the society will have to endure before we get there.  

Bio: Cadell Last is an anthropologist, philosopher and therapist focused on biocultural evolution, mind-matter relation and future speculations.  He earned his PhD in interdisciplinary and complexity studies at the Evolution, Cognition and Complexity group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.  He is also the author of over a dozen academic publications and two books: Global Brain Singularity and Sex, Masculinity, God; as well as over a dozen academic publications.  You can find more about his work at cadelllast.com.

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Links to books by Alexander Bard  with Jan Söderqvist:

The Futurica Trilogy (2012)
Syntheism – Creating God in the Internet Age (2014)
Digital Libido - Sex, power and violence in the network society

Intro music: Beautiful Machines, By Andrew Sweeny