This was a brilliant dialogue about the shadow of righteousness in progressive circles, between the cultural commentator Ayishat Akanbi and the author of the Entangled Activist Anthea Lawson. It was part of Rebel Wisdom’s event at the Wilderness Festival, one of the UK’s top festivals of music, food, talks and experiences. This year Rebel Wisdom […]

Dennis McKenna is perhaps the world’s best-known psychedelic ethnobotanist and a pioneer in the field of psychedelic research. He’s the author of several books, including ‘The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss’ which chronicles his life with his brother Terence McKenna. More recently, he set up the McKenna Academy, a not for profit modern day mystery

As part of our new series, The State of Sensemaking, Rebel Wisdom is rereleasing a couple of older films, including this one, which was initially released as the intro to our Collective Intelligence series. Check out the other films in the new series, and we will be holding a free online event at the end

This film was initially uploaded on Weds 25th, but then taken down by YouTube on Sunday 29th, for "medical misinformation". The appeal was rejected, with no further opportunity for appeal and a Community Guidelines strike added to the channel. However, the situation got a lot of traction on Twitter, and the journalist Matt Taibbi made

If you haven’t been following the drama on Twitter, YouTube took down our last film ‘Vaccine & Dark Horse, Final Word’, rejected our appeal and issued a community guidelines strike against the channel for ‘medical misinformation’. They have relented after public pressure on Twitter and inquiries from the veteran journalist Matt Taibbi, who has just

This is a reissue of a film we released a couple of years ago, originally called the Science and Psychology of Polarisation, which we are re-releasing now as it is even more relevant now than it was then. It is part of our new "State of Sensemaking" series of films, check out the other films

This is part of Rebel Wisdom’s new series ‘The State of Sensemaking’, the first film in the series is here: https://youtu.be/4YYrjHXJ0jI Chris Williamson is the host of the Modern Wisdom podcast, which has over 200,000 subscribers, and where he has hosted many of the same people as Rebel Wisdom. In this fascinating dialogue with Rebel

For years Rebel Wisdom has been focused on the problems of Sensemaking, how we find truth together. The pandemic has made all these problems worse. We are lost in echo chambers, manipulated by narrative warfare and the hacking of our attention by the big tech platforms. The problem of Sensemaking is right at the core

This is the final edition of Rebel Wisdom’s series of films looking at the claims that have been made around the drug Ivermectin and vaccine safety on Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying’s Dark Horse podcast. It is released at the same time as an important interview with Eric Osgood MD telling the real backstory of