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Beauty Changes Your Life: Plato, Aristotle, and the Beautiful

I’d like to warmly invite you to Thomas Jockin’s upcoming Parallax course on beauty, Plato, Aristotle, and the Greek idea of to kalon — the beautiful, the noble, the fine.

The course begins Monday, July 6, 2026, with live sessions on July 6, 13, 20, and 27.

Thomas will explore beauty not simply as taste, aesthetics, or personal preference, but as something that forms attention, educates desire, and asks something of our lives.

We recently had a wonderful Parallax conversation with Thomas and John Vervaeke on beauty, the sacred, and the meaning crisis. John offered this generous endorsement:

“I’ve been very impressed by Thomas. Thank you, Andrew, for bringing us together. I think the course you’re offering, if it’s filled with this wisdom and this reflection and this philosophia, I heartily and wholeheartedly recommend it.”

Watch the conversation here:
https://youtu.be/hjor3hc_OxU

Course link:
https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/beauty-changes-your-life-thomas-jockin

Thomas Jockin - Beauty Changes Your Life — Parallax Beauty Changes your life will start Monday, July 6 with with Thomas Jockin

There are a couple of tickets left for the upcoming course: The Developmental Growth of Positive Primordial Emotions, with Terri O´Fallon, starting July 5th. 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐤𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧@𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐱-𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚.𝐝𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝟐𝟎% 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭!

https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/terriofallon

You want to learn to navigate and grow your primordial emotions in your daily life, develop more joy, love, gratitude and compassion? Then this course might be the thing for you.

The Developmental Growth of Positive Primordial Emotions. With Terri O`Fallon — Parallax The course will start Sunday, July 5th, with Terri O´Fallon

A new episode of Roots Of Enlivenment.

In a recent conversation with Adriana Forte, returning back to Australia fresh from the Integral Conference in Denver, we explored the idea of the colonial mind—not simply as a historical phenomenon, but as an internalized pattern that continues to shape how many of us relate to our bodies, our landscapes, our time, and even our own development.

What happens when linear progress becomes more important than cyclical wisdom? When abstraction overrides lived experience? When productivity is valued more highly than participation, and cognition more highly than embodiment?

Drawing from Integral Theory, Jean Gebser's structures of consciousness, women's lived experience, and the intelligence of cyclical life, we reflected on whether modern culture has become estranged from some of its deepest sources of knowing.

If an old paradigm is slowly exhausting itself, perhaps the most important question is not what comes next, but what forgotten forms of wisdom are waiting to be remembered.

Here full version:

https://cordulafrei.substack.com/cp/202448959



or at
https://youtu.be/Q_GMwWr9hJE

The Colonial Mind: Cycles, Consciousness & the Intelligence of the Living Body | Adriana Forte n this episode of Roots of Enlivenment, Cordula Frei speaks with wr...

The Architecture of Amnesia: Colonization, Earth Wisdom, and the Forgotten Rhythms of Life

For our Parallax community, we are happy to share this reflection —a deeply woven essay exploring colonization not only as a historical event, but as a psychic and ecological rupture that continues to shape how we live, feel, and relate to the Earth today.

In The Architecture of Amnesia, Cordula traces the hidden continuity between the enclosure of the commons in Europe, the European witch-wise women trials, and the global disruption of Indigenous lifeways. She reveals how these histories are not separate chapters, but part of a single unfolding pattern: the gradual severing of humanity from cyclical time, land-based intelligence, and relational ways of knowing.

At the heart of the text is a powerful inquiry into what has been lost in modernity—not only ecologically, but temporally and somatically. The essay invites us to consider how burnout, anxiety, addiction, and disconnection may be expressions of a deeper collective memory: the loss of belonging to Earth as a living presence.

Cordula brings into resonance Indigenous Australian perspectives on Country, cyclical wisdom, and deep listening, alongside the suppressed European earth traditions once embodied by healers, midwives, and wise women. Through this lens, she explores the feminine principle not as identity, but as a mode of perception rooted in reciprocity, rhythm, and attentiveness to life.

This is not only historical analysis—it is an invitation into remembrance.

These are the living questions carried through the essay—and into the next conversations of her upcoming podcast series:

Roots of Enlivenment | Parallax Media
Featuring our upcoming guests from Australia, this series continues the exploration of land-based wisdom, cyclical consciousness, and Indigenous perspectives on relational existence with Earth.

Together, these works open a shared field of reflection: toward reconnection and remembering what has always been quietly present beneath the noise of modern life.

We invite you to read, listen, and enter this inquiry with us.

Listen on: https://www.parallax-media.com/roots-of-enlivenment

Read on: https://cordulafrei.substack.com/p/the-architecture-of-amnesia-colonization