Parallax

07/12/2025

This is the imbalance modernity has created: for centuries, the neocortex, evolutionary newcomer, has been over-glorified, taught to dominate while the limbic and reptilian brains were silenced. Civilization trained us to think more than to feel, to plan more than to sense, to quantify more than to belong. Humans became creatures living from the shoulders up, while the rest of the organism—woven through fascia, gut, heart, lungs, ancestral memory—was left undernourished, ignored, unlistened to. Neurobiologists call this “cortical dominance,” a mismatch between evolutionary design and cultural expectation. The cost is high: anxiety, panic, disconnection, exhaustion when a situation occurs which threatens the neocortex safety comprehension.

https://open.substack.com/pub/parallax/p/embers-of-the-ancient-brain-reclaiming?r=4o6lsb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

30/11/2025

https://open.substack.com/pub/parallax/p/rewilding-the-nervous-system-a-return?r=4o6lsb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

19/11/2025

-Rewilding the Nervous System: A Feminine Path Through the Collapse of the Mental Age

In recent years, something has begun to stir beneath the surface of our collective mind, and it is impossible to ignore the signs. Jean Gebser, the cultural philosopher who mapped the evolution of human consciousness, foresaw a moment when the mental structure of cognition — the linear, rational, controlling mode that shaped modernity — would reach its peak, strain under its own weight, and begin to crack open into a new form of being he called the integral.

Gebser’s entire life was devoted to tracking these structures of consciousness as they emerged across history: archaic, magic, mythical, mental, and the dawning integral. For him, each structure was not a stage that erased the previous one but a mode of experiencing reality that layered itself into the human being.

https://open.substack.com/pub/parallax/p/when-the-mind-cracks-open-entering?r=4o6lsb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

12/11/2025

"For an instant, fear flared — a brief spark in the amygdala, that almond-shaped core deep in the brain where all threats are weighed. I thought of wild boars, of getting lost, of the oncoming dusk. But the dog stayed calm. I could trust her. How often had she explored this wild on her own and found her way back home. If darkness would fall, i d take her on and follow her path. She, as so often, thanked me for my trust by being even more in connection with me, waiting patiently when i stumbled and every few meters stopping and taking care if i still followed. She was at home, in perfect harmony and joy about the sensations, smells and explorations. I could see, how her body almost exploded with satisfaction for the many smells she collected and i imagined this telegraphic network she sniffled for, informations on any wild beast that encountered this path, mushrooms, water, every branch was a multitude of information for her nervous system. "

https://open.substack.com/pub/parallax/p/beyond-fear-a-exploration-on-transient?r=4o6lsb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

09/11/2025

🔥 New Course Launch 🔥
Lifeforce Leadership - with F***y F***y Norlin
Eros, Clarity and action in the digital age
📆 Begins this Thursday at 19:00 (CET)
💫 Hosted by Parallax (in collaboration with Andrew Sweeny & team)

https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/lifeforce-leadership-with-fanny-fanny-norlin

Dive into an incisive exploration of masculine and feminine energies.. This course takes you beyond surface binaries into a rich dialogue on power, embodiment, and transformation.

🔍 What we’ll explore:
– The nature of masculine energy as direction, structure, materialisation.
– How feminine energy (“pussy power”) de-centres and re-shapes the ph***ic gaze.
– The architecture of true power: not domination or suppression, but full-spectrum capacity.
– Practical implications: relationships, meaning-making, social structures.

🎯 Who it’s for:
This course is suitable for anyone interested in power dynamics, depth psychology, spiritual philosophy, gender theory, and transformational practices.

📌 Join us:
Click the link to register and secure your spot → https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/lifeforce-leadership-with-fanny-fanny-norlin
We look forward to your presence and contribution.

Let’s step into a new understanding of power together.

Starts november 13th 2025 - a deep exploration of feminine and masculine leadership in the digital age with F***y Norlin. 

28/10/2025

https://youtu.be/BbjofayecUI?si=H0iVjNteIkOFCNDV

💥 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 ...

15/10/2025

Alexander Bard will give three lectures this November on Consciousness, Existentialism, and The Human Sociont.

This will be, as usual, a wild ride and a deep philosophical exploration of Bards newest ideas.

Get your ticket here:

Starts November 2nd, 2025 - A deep dive into Consciousness, Existentialism, and The Human Sociont, with Alexander Bard

14/10/2025

🔥 NEW COURSE — Begins November 1, 2025
“Why the World Hates Christianity”
with Luke Behncke
➡️ https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/why-the-world-hates-christianity-with-luke-behncke

"Why does the world hate Christianity?
Not because of culture wars, politics, or philosophy —
but because it strikes at the very foundations of human existence.

Christianity is not one religion among many.
It declares itself the axis of reality, the hinge of evolution,
a fire that unmasks the ego and demands the impossible:
to die in order to live,
to lose in order to gain,
to surrender everything in order to inherit all.

This course explores why Christ provokes the most visceral energetic reaction in history —
and why, 2,000 years on, His power still divides kingdoms, unmasks hearts,
and calls forth a new humanity."Luke Behncke

Prepare to be turned upside down.
🔥 Join us at https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/why-the-world-hates-christianity-with-luke-behncke

12/10/2025

Today at 6 pm CET (in 30 min)

FREE PARALLAX LECTURE

with Brent Cooper

CHECK YOUR HEAD

Starts October 12th 2025 - A one time & free lecture with Brent Cooper

03/10/2025

https://youtu.be/wYlHPovCrcw?si=Bwyobpsj-4r5pd33
The Parallax View # 165: The Metaphysics of time, with Alexander Bard and Justin Carmien
Tom Amarque moderates an intense and wide-ranging conversation between Alexander Bard and Juston Carmien on Vernunft, Metaphysics, Time, and Ethics.
Alexander Bard is philosopher and author of numerous book, including 'Process and Event'
Justin Carmien is a a philosopher, his book "Metaphysics of the Aletheyein" ist just out! https://www.parallax-media.com/.../metaphysics-of-the...
Upcoming course with Alexander Bard: https://www.parallax-media.com/.../consciousness...

15/09/2025

Through writing my latest german book Wild&Wunderbar , two profound shifts awakened within me. First: I was reclaimed by the writer’s heart and the storyteller’s craft — by the deep narrative voice I had learned, perhaps early on, to silence. In giving space to story, metaphor and deeper memory than the everyday spaces of my brain, I began re-enlivening my capacity to see, to feel, to shape with words. And second: in remembering ritual, in weaving ancient practices back into my daily life, I activated parts of my brain that evolution and culture have long abandoned — the neural pathways for rhythm, belonging, ancestral memory. These two—story and ritual—together have changed my life fully and enormously.

What modern medicine is just beginning to understand, the wise women of old cultures have always known: that healing does not occur through control, but through connection. That a strengthened vagus nerve does not grow through performance, but through rituals, tenderness, through rediscovering a natural rhythm. And that pains lodged in tissue arise not only from trauma, but from the loss of meaning, of connection and memory.
https://parallax.substack.com/p/rewilding-the-nervous-system-through?r=4o6lsb

31/08/2025

Book-lauch starts in roughly one hour at 7 pm CET. Get access here (free):

The subject matter of modern philosophy has gone by various names: the cogito sum, transcendental subject, Dasein, or the dividual. However, these descriptions do not merely refer to subject matter for philosophers, but are a description of a “subiectum” which is prior to the world and which acc...