Mar 15Member-onlyThe Guru and The ShadowReflections on my conversation with Andrew Cohen — Most Gurus wouldn’t admit to having started a cult. Imagine Osho apologising for creating his cult in Oregon, where his students practised actual bio-terrorism! Impossible to conceive of! But Andrew Cohen is different — a humbled and repentant Guru, which may seem like a contradiction in terms. In any…Spirituality4 min readSpirituality4 min read
Oct 12, 2021Member-onlyIVAN ILLICH’S HOUR OF LEGIBILITYOriginally Published on Parallax: https://parallax-media.eu/andrew-sweeny/ivan-illichs-hour-of-legibility The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben said recently that Ivan Illich has arrived at his ‘hour of legibility.’ In other words, the radical propositions of Ilich — that we need to ‘deschool society’ for instance, or that the present medical paradigm has become a danger to…Ivan Illich9 min readIvan Illich9 min read
Aug 29, 2021Member-onlyManiphesto Media AcademyThis 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 on Maniphesto core — a European men’s network. We call this project ‘The Maniphesto Media Academy’. Maniphesto Media Academy (aka MMA) is a virtual…Media7 min readMedia7 min read
Mar 19, 2021Member-onlyTammy Peterson, Jordan Peterson, and The 4th DimensionMeditations on my conversation with Tammy Peterson — Jordan Peterson8 min readJordan Peterson8 min read
Dec 18, 2020Member-onlyDigital Patriarchy?The word patriarchy has come to mean an oppressive power structure run by men and the systematic abuse and exclusion of women. It describes the ignoble sins of men throughout history and the plight of women who have always been victims of men; patriarchy is a word synonymous with ‘injustice’…Men7 min readMen7 min read
Nov 18, 2020Member-onlySome thoughts on The American ElectionThe next Messiah won’t be televised In this commentary, I don’t want to indulge in any elation about the crushing of that minor tyrant in the pantheon of world historical tyrants, Donald Trump. Elation is a harmful form of delusion, and it always comes before a fall. Instead, let us be stoics here and dare to…Politics4 min readPolitics4 min read
Oct 29, 2020Member-onlyOn FellowshipRecently, I published a series of short meditations on philia, one of the classical of greek forms of love/friendship, a term which means something like ‘brotherly love’. I drew on Aristotle, who said that there are three kinds of friends: the ones that are useful, those who give us pleasure…Lord Of The Rings6 min readLord Of The Rings6 min read
Sep 2, 2020Member-onlyShamanism and Media in The Digital AgeA talk given at The European Men’s gathering in Denmark, August 2019 — The Matrix In the film Matrix, Neo is given a choice. Is he going to become the ‘new man’, and take a radical risk, which means a dangerous trip down the rabbit hole? Or will he remain in the dark, narrow, comfortable, familiar, known womb called the Matrix. Neo is, metaphorically speaking…The Matrix12 min readThe Matrix12 min read
Jul 24, 2020Member-onlyWe Need a Renaissance, Not Another RevolutionJean-Jacques Rousseau got it backwards when he said ‘Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.’ On the contrary, men and women are born in a state of radical un-freedom. We come into the world attached by the umbilical cord to mother, family, and tribe — and only…Philosphy8 min readPhilosphy8 min read
Jun 17, 2020Member-onlyReinventing BeautyOriginally 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, John Vervaeke tells us. Vervaeke isn’t speaking of aesthetic or cosmetic beauty particularly, but something more intrinsic—related to virtue and wisdom. Vervaeke uses the…Philosophy7 min readPhilosophy7 min read
