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Gurdjieff for a Time Between Worlds: Hyperpersonal Essays on the Grandfather of Metamodern Spirituality
In this collection of diverse and humorous micro-essays, spiritual teacher, philosopher, and cultural activist Layman Pascal takes us on a wild intellectual rollercoaster ride with one of history’s most enduringly relevant and cryptic sages.
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SEX, DEATH & THE OCCULT
Part textbook, part transcription of an online course, & part poetic grimoire. A grimoire is a fancy term for a collection of magical practices and ideas. Do you believe in magic? Does anyone really believe or disbelieve in magic? Maybe it is more about a kind of feeling. A special flavor of attention, energy and embodiment. A collection of interests in symbolism, manifestation, intention, ritual, ancient wisdom and the emancipatory vibe of all things wondrous. The provocative title of this book (Sex, Death & the Occult) is an homage to my childhood mentor Robert Anton Wilson and reflects the name of an online course hosted by my friends at the Parallax Academy. The basic content of this book is the transcription of that course, additionally my personal willingness to engage in the “occult” versions of wisdom development alongside my other work in more standard areas of existential self-cultivation and community building. Author: Layman Pascal Published by Parallax
In this first volume of his book series The Evolution of Meaning, Dempsey introduces a theory of meaning based in thermodynamics and information processing. Tracking the trajectory of this learning process through the emergent levels of Matter, Life, Mind, and Culture, we see how meaning takes on new shades of depth and informational richness across scales. Author: Brendan Dempsey Published by Sky Meadow Press Narrated by Layman Pascal
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I have never called myself a shaman. People occasionally refer to me that way either because they are being playful or perhaps because they want me to talk about the shamanic turn in spirituality, philosophy, and developmental psychology. Usually, I say “shamanism” in quotes. Or else I say “something-like-shamanism” or I say, “whatever we want to call it.” My own interest revolves around a study (that I made up) called metashamanics.
Love is a “magical technology” when it is coupled to intentionality. Hard to disagree with that. Wait — let’s back up. Around the beginning of the 20th century, a fascinating wave of transcultural occult innovators emerged. Haunting historical figures like Blavatsky, Fortune, Steiner, Evola, Mathers, Yeats, and others brought forth a transrational stance that combined a modernist zeal for progress and agency with an anti-modernist longing for the mythic-libidinal potency of traditional worldviews and archaic patterns of alternative sensemaking.
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November 10, 2025 In this new Integral Stage episode, Layman sits down again with Alexander Love to explore the roots and contours of a post-tragic worldview.
Soulmakers#12 The Jazz Life of Geoff Fitch Follow the ongoing effort of embodiment in the past lives, childhood, jazz, tech, and spirit life of Geoff Fitch. Transcendental Meditation. GTC. Terri O’Fallon. Adi Da. David Deida. Abigail. Children. Messages to the Future. The Family of the Developmental Field. Love & Embodiment. Death. Worlds Beyond Self-Reflection.
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