To be present is to be
divided for the sake of
wholeness
Nietzsche, All-Too-Nietzsche
Nietzsche, All-Too-Nietzsche begins with a deeply personal introduction and goes on to explore a comprehensive Nietzschepedia that unpacks his primary concepts, meets his interlocutors, and passes into a collection of meta-commentaries on the philosopher’s books and essays.
This “love letter to a post-postmodern Nietzsche" as an early ecologist and systems thinker, is the second book in the Moustache trilogy that began with Gurdjieff for a Time Between Worlds by Layman Pascal.
Interviews
Layman's Upcoming Events
Dec 09
2026
“Gurdjieff and Swedenborg: Cosmology, Mysticism & the Rise of Reason”
December 09, 7pm
Join us for a live event with Rich Tafel for Swedenborg House
Dec 13
2026
“AI & The Future of Humanism”
December 13, 7pm CET
At the Philosophy Portal.
Dec 20
2026
Memorial Celebration for Jim Rutt
December 20, 11am Eastern
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Jan/Feb
2027
“Nietzsche, Crowley & Gurdjieff: The Age of Tantric Patriarchs”
Sundays hosted by Parallax
Join Layman for six 90 min explorations of patriarchality through a metashamanic and developmental lens.
For modules and course outline visit:
https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/the-age-of-tantric-patriarchs
current book offerings
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
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.
recent writings
A Xagick Short. The concepts of hyperstition and hauntology are both part of the current magical zeitgeist. An explorer of Xagick should be familiar with these interestingly entangled terms as they pertain to futurecrafting.
A Pious Assault on Historicity. It seems to me that real faith requires a free heart. True faithfulness springs up among the diverse flowers in a garden of mystery, plurality and critique. The compulsion to prove or persuade is a castration of mythic potency. Thus historicity prevents myth from doing its deep neurogenetic work upon our souls.
podcasts of layman
Part 2 of new mini-series, Postmetaphysical Gestures. Layman sits down with Alexander Love to talk about a spiritual philosophy he has been developing at the intersections of Ken Wilber's integral postmetaphysics and Terri O'Fallon's STAGES model.
Soulmakers #16 - The Unfolding Context of Venita Ramirez. The Soulmakers Project is an autobiographical archive that solicits the self-curated life stories of elders in the overlapping developmental, transformational and regenerative communities.
We're joined by the self-appointed Metamodern Pop Culture Supreme Master, Inquisitor Black for a rambling niche journey into ponderances such as, Is transhumanism feminist? Should my nonduality have sides? Where did all the cerebral jazz clubs go? Is queer losing its queerness? How great is Willem Dafoe? For anyone who doesn't know who the edginess of "third spaces" is supposed to be edgy for -- this is the podcast for you.
collaborative community
Endemic, inspired by and working in collaboration with Layman Pascal, a leader in the movement to revive the role of the shaman in contemporary culture, is committed to restoring these connections. Endemic is establishing a Foundation to help those with shamanistic tendencies enhance their ability to guide cultural development practically, nurture shamanistic capacity, and feel supported and guided. Take the test!
Explore, play, beatbox with experimental AI librarian of Layman Pascalians. Discuss with Layman AI topics like metashamanics, meaning making, integral for idiots, Gurdjieff 4th way, Dharma, metacrisis, Wilber and liminal circus acts.
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Specializing in spiritual and existential development, developmental theory, stages of life, unfolding your own Big Picture, metashamanics, systems change, philosophical feedback, and finding your role in new cultural networks.
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