Parallax

27/07/2025

This Fall, we open the doors to a different kind of learning—one that rekindles the ancient art of thinking, storytelling, and soulful inquiry.
Join as with your membership!

Parallax Academy is more than an online school. It’s a digital hearth—a gathering place for writers, philosophers, artists, iconoclasts, and world builders.

Join our educational pilgrimage. As a founding member, you'll gain access to:
Live & recorded classes in philosophy, deep ecology and more with our teachers and guest speakers
Book clubs, writing classes & a poetry salon
Monthly community gatherings and exchange
Mentorship, coaching & meaningful conversation

Let’s imagine—and build—a world worth living in.
Find out more on our various membership tiers:

https://www.parallax-media.com/parallax-membership

22/07/2025

“The greening of the self involves a shift in the sense of self — from the skin‑encapsulated ego to a self wider and deeper, rooted in the ecological cycles of life.” - Joanna Macy

Join our fall classes with Cordula Frei and Guest Speaker Jeremy Lent on DEEP ECOLOGY – and the REWILDING of THE SOUL
Fall Term// Start: 23.9.2025- 4.11.2025 with weekly Live Sessions: Tuesdays 7.30 - 9.00 ET

Find out more on content and program of this class at and register:
https://www.parallax-media.com/syllabus

Free entry for Parallax Members: https://www.parallax-media.com/parallax-membership

16/07/2025

Our friends at Integral Forum Germany have updated their media section in a new design featuring many fantastic integral contributors.

We are thrilled to dive back into many of these rich conversations especially with and at the upcoming FlowFestival were we are a part at this event with Tom Amarque:
https://caia-academy.de/flowtofuture/

One highlight from the archive is this inspiring dialogue between Cordula Frei and Jeremy Johnson, exploring the deep legacy of Jean Gebser.

Gebser, writing in a time of intense cultural transformation in mid-century Europe, observed evolutionary leaps in human consciousness — the most recent being the “integral structure,” marked by a sense of freedom from time. His work has profoundly shaped integral philosophy and consciousness studies, influencing thinkers like William Irwin Thompson and Ken Wilber.

Cordula Frei also reflects on Gebser’s integral approach on our Substack: https://substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-page&utm_source=direct



https://youtu.be/IH7n-HadI40

in englischer SpracheJeremy Johnson arbeitet seit fünf Jahren im Bereich Online-Lernen mit Unternehmen wie Evolver und dem Open Center in New York City. Er i...

15/07/2025

I have no conclusion to offer, only this:

The child is still at the creek.

The trout may or may not appear.

The water still runs cold and clear over the stones.

The wind still shifts through the trees outside the window where I sleep.

The clay still remembers.

And I—who am now many selves—still lean into that current,

listening for what the world is whispering through me,

again and again and always now. - Cordula Frei

by Cordula Frei

14/07/2025

Discover this- and more of
our fall offerings :

ANDREW SWEENY: DHARMA READING GROUP

Join Andrew Sweeny for a lively and congenial reading group focused on mystical texts from both Eastern and Western traditions. This semester, we will continue our journey through George Gurdjieff’s massive, baroque masterpiece Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, alongside The Magic Dance: The Display of the Self-Nature of the Five Wisdom Dakinis by Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, son of Dudjom Rinpoche and a revered Nyingma master, and The Concealing and Revealing: The Wisdom of Reality Only by Traktung Khepa (T.K.). Each session includes collective reading, discussion, and the exploration of basic practices drawn from Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way and the Vajrayana tradition. Whether you're an experienced practitioner or a curious beginner, you're warmly invited to take part.

https://www.parallax-media.com/syllabus

11/07/2025

Today, what separates us from our modern predecessors is not the peculiarity of the “I” or the “mine”, but the “we”.

The nation-form which Aristotle, G.W.F. Hegel, and Martin Heidegger lived, for example, can no longer be identified. “We, the People...” is a phrase which makes no sense.

Not only does the “we” no longer refer to those human animals who are present with us, and who represent “our people”, but the “we is not exhausted by the phenomenon of human morphology.
This follows the various advances in machine learning and the “we” should include even non-human animals, as well. Insofar as the “we” is constituted by whatever is shared in an economy of thriving and flourishing together, a problem must be made of this pronoun.

This study takes for granted that a sense of the common, shared, and objective is only possible when the individuals feel secure to disclose the truth.
Only through their disclosure can we experience an interpersonal commerce characterized by a sense of thriving and flourishing together. Only then can we confront the actual and authentic “we”.

However, if we are to recognize anything like an actual and authentic “we”, when and where it manifests, and speak intelligently about “our economy”, then possession of an idea of the “we” is necessary. Therefore, while this study takes as its goal the identification of an idea of the “we”, it does so merely as a catalyst. The realist metaphysics which describes the “we” not only satisfies our want for description, but prescription as well.- Justin Carmien

The subject matter of modern philosophy has gone by various names: the cogito sum, transcendental subject, da sein, 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 ac...

11/07/2025

https://www.parallax-media.com/the-parallax-view/162

Andrew Sweeny and Tom Amarque on the The Parallax View

11/07/2025

Whats New at Parallax? Join Cordula Frei & Andrew Sweeny for a weekly online writing practice open to all genres, levels & curiosities starting in fall.

Each Friday, we gather to write, share, and support one another in a focused, welcoming space — with guided and free writing, gentle feedback, and zero pressure.

Each month culminates in a Literary Salon, where you're invited to share your work.

Whether you're polishing a novel, journaling for insight, or just seeking a weekly creative anchor — this group offers rhythm, community, and inspiration.

Check the full schedule: parallax-media.com/syllabus

How to register:

Parallax Academy is more than a school — it’s a digital hearth for writers, philosophers, artists, and intellectual shamans. It is also a book house and serves to publish new literature.

Become a founding member and access a growing constellation of live & recorded classes in philosophy, deep ecology, poetry, storytelling, and much more. Join us on an educational pilgrimage at parallax-media.com/parallax-membership

09/07/2025

To be Integral is not to preach unity. It is to suffer the fragmentation until it reveals its hidden song. It is to include memory—of the archaic, the mystical, the magical—without shame. It is to know that our futures are made only of what we dare to feel from our deepest pasts.

Today, in that field with my friend, as grass swayed and butterflies hummed with gold, we touched the still point beneath language. And it is from there that I write now, inviting you not to “understand” this work—but to let it pierce you. Let it remind your skin. Let it speak through your venes.

The trance of modern life is not merely unhealthy—it is a murder of memory. And this essay, these voices, this moment, is our small act of resurrection.

Let it burn. Let it sing.

Let the invisible web awaken in you.

by Cordula Frei

08/07/2025

The archaic structure, in particular, is the root of our primal embodiment—the source of our undivided communion with cosmos, matter, and life itself. When Gebser says the archaic is “zero-dimensional,” he means it is without division, without differentiation—pure origin, the point before space and time open up. In us, it still whispers in the wordless knowing of the body, in breath and heartbeat, in the ineffable feeling of simply being. The integral must embody this root, or it will float untethered—another mental fantasy.

The magical structure brings back the interconnected field, the world not as seen from outside, but spoken with, sung with, acted with—a world of synchronicity and correspondence, where symbols shimmer with living power. Without this magical re-enchantment, the integral loses its radiance and its participatory vitality. We must reawaken this field—not naively, not regressively, but transparently, knowing what we are doing as we re-initiate into mystery.

And the mythic structure gifts us with the story that holds meaning, the symbolic narratives that allow soul to speak. Myth bridges the imaginal and the historical; it draws depth down into time. If the integral loses the mythic, it becomes dry and systematized, a sterile aperspectivity that cannot feel. The mythic must be reclaimed—not literalized but lived through.

Thus, the embodiment of these earlier structures is the condition of possibility for integral consciousness to arise—not as theory but as lived truth. And embodiment means more than intellectual integration. It means a bodily, emotional, spiritual reconciliation: a welcoming of the whole human being.- Cordula Frei
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by Cordula Frei

06/07/2025

OUR TEACHERS

Parallax Academy hosts a wide array of academic, artistic and schamanoid teachers.

If you want to apply to for the Academy, become a teacher and present a course or seminar, please contact us here:

https://www.parallax-media.com/teachers

25/06/2025

Layman Pascals new course "Integral for Idiots" starts in 11 days. There are a couple of tickets left for this groundbaking course. If you love Integral Theory, consciousness and development, then don´t miss out on that one. Even if you are already familiar with this theory. There is still new ground to cover.

Integral Theory for Idiots is for all three types.  Layman Pascal will put you all in a blender together -- framing the discussion as part of the general field of developmental metatheories, liminal culture & adaptation to the new bio-informational planetary situation. Thi