Alexander Beiner
Co-founder, Rebel Widsom
Co-founder, Rebel Widsom
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Alexander is a writer, facilitator and cultural commentator. In 2012, he co-founded a meditation school, Open Meditation. He has also worked in some of the world’s top events agencies developing immersive live experiences.
Alexander leads on Rebel Wisdom’s written content and live events and is particularly focused on finding new ways of having in-person conversations around the most essential and challenging ideas.
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Rebel Wisdom
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The intellect in service to embodied wisdom
It’s the rebels and the renegades, those who dare to think differently, who need to reboot the system.
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When our existing ways of thinking break down, it’s the rebels and the renegades, those who dare to think differently, who need to reboot the system.
In these times of change, we can no longer trust the traditional media to make sense of the world. The old gatekeepers are losing their power. A new counter culture is filling the void, driven by a great intellectual awakening. Facilitated by new technology, it’s made a new kind of conversation possible; more in-depth, more open and more democratic.
Rebel Wisdom is a media platform founded by BBC & Channel 4 filmmaker David Fuller, on the conviction that we are seeing a civilisational-level crisis of ideas, as the old operating system breaks down. The new is struggling to emerge – and the most transformative ideas always show up first as rebellious.
Rebel Wisdom looks to move beyond ideology. We create our content with the intention of engaging with the whole person – intellect, body, and intuition – to create honest discussions.
Fuelled by social media, many have become trapped in reaction and ideology, yet big questions can only be explored with open-minded, self-reflective, grounded conversations.
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Last 50 posts on own channels (YouTube, Podcast, Medium or Website/Blog):
I just started working on it this week 🙂
Published on: 7 Aug 20 in Alexander Beiner – Medium
by Alexander Beiner
Excellent points, and a good gauntlet to lay down.
Published on: 27 Jul 20 in Alexander Beiner – Medium
by Alexander Beiner
Hi Jamie- thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
Published on: 23 Jul 20 in Alexander Beiner – Medium
by Alexander Beiner
Sleeping Woke: Cancel Culture and Simulated Religion
Published on: 20 Jul 20 in Alexander Beiner – Medium
by Alexander Beiner
Thanks! Got it out in a rush so proofreading ended up crowd-sourced — will amend,
Published on: 19 Jul 20 in Alexander Beiner – Medium
by Alexander Beiner
Thanks! Any you could point out and send to alexander@rebelwisdom.co.uk
Published on: 17 Jul 20 in Alexander Beiner – Medium
by Alexander Beiner
Thanks for the thoughtful response Ahmad — I like that term ‘flat data’ — you
Published on: 27 Jun 20 in Alexander Beiner – Medium
by Alexander Beiner
Reasoning the Volcano: Sam Harris & the Limits of Analysis
Published on: 19 Jun 20 in Alexander Beiner – Medium
by Alexander Beiner
Traversing the Underworld: What Myth can Teach us During the Pandemic
Published on: 22 May 20 in Alexander Beiner – Medium
by Alexander Beiner
The Moving Sickness: A Pandemic Parable
Published on: 26 Mar 20 in Alexander Beiner – Medium
by Alexander Beiner
Lost Ways of Knowing
Published on: 13 Mar 20 in Alexander Beiner – Medium
by Alexander Beiner
A Story to Bind Us: The Intellectual Deep Web and a New Grand Narrative
Published on: 13 Mar 20 in Alexander Beiner – Medium
by Alexander Beiner
Pretty much — though I don’t think their race negates the quality of their character
Published on: 21 Sep 19 in Alexander Beiner – Medium
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The Rebel Wisdom Summit
Published on: 16 May 19 in Alexander Beiner – Medium
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Beyond the Basin achieves what has rarely been attempted before – to reconcile the ineffable ego-dissolving experience of psychedelic drugs with written language, all the while maintaining the pace and structure of a more traditional novel.
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Excellent points, and a good gauntlet to lay down. I did speak to several people in researching this and a few intersectional scholars have been in touch after reading it — I
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Hi Jamie- thanks, glad you enjoyed it. Sure – the targeting is just ‘friends of people who like Rebel Wisdom’ – so presumably a friend of yours likes our Facebook
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A new religion has erupted. It has taken over newsrooms, radio waves, HR departments, social feeds and film scripts. It dictates your playlists on Netflix. It tells you what language
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Thanks! Got it out in a rush so proofreading ended up crowd-sourced — will amend, much appreciated
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Thanks! Any you could point out and send to alexander@rebelwisdom.co.uk would be hugely appreciated 🙂
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Thanks for the thoughtful response Ahmad — I like that term ‘flat data’ — you might like Nora Bateson’s work around ‘Warm Data’ too
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Culture is on fire. Grief, anguish and anger have erupted from the depths of our collective psyche with a force that cannot be ignored. And the more we try to
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the Traversing the Underworld: What Myth Can Teach us During the PandemicConversations with Zak Stein, Stephen Jenkinson & Charlotte Du CannWhat sustains us, beyond the sun and soil? How deep do our
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The Adults and the ChildrenLong before anyone living was born, four people gathered in the centre of the world. Two were adults, and two were children. Two were male, and two
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Chapter 1: Embodied Cognition, Living Systems and the Culture WarsWe are lost in the woods. It is 2020, and the mist grows thick and full of desperate voices. As we wander
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A Story to Bind Us: The Intellectual Deep Web and a New Meta-NarrativeWe know ourselves through stories, and we know each other through the stories we share. But for all
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Pretty much — though I don’t think their race negates the quality of their character or ideas. Likewise it can be important to include a variety of perspectives — however, in the particular ‘meta
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A New Type of Conversation, The Rebel Wisdom SummitIn these polarised, fractured times, what does a real conversation look like? One where people feel free to speak their minds, change their
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Alexander Beiner retweeted: i hooked up chatgpt to a furby and I think this may be the start of something bad for humanity
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Get ‘em while they’re hot! Just two weeks until Breaking Convention returns in all its glory Quoted feed from @breakingcon Tickets selling fast for our conference! For more info follow this link: tickettailor.com/events/brea…
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New piece out on AI, metaphysics and, of course, fish farming beiner.substack.com/p/realit…
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@RCarhartHarris Not long – this is why I’m so happy I’ve made a career overthinking popular culture – the robots will never appreciate the hidden social commentary of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, but could definitely design a solid clinical trial protocol.
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Alexander Beiner retweeted: A great interview with @PaulStamets by our director and author of The Bigger Picture @AlexanderBeiner Read the full interview here: beiner.substack.com/p/paul-stamets… Catch Paul at our next event happening 20-22 April 2023, more info here: tickettailor.com/events/breakin…
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Alexander Beiner retweeted: A great interview with @PaulStamets by our director and author of The Bigger Picture @AlexanderBeiner Read the full interview here: beiner.substack.com/p/paul-s… Catch Paul at our next event happening 20-22 April 2023, more info here: tickettailor.com/events/brea…
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The Bigger Picture : Paul Stamets on Fungi, Heterodoxy and Systems beiner.substack.com/p/paul-stamets…
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@BenjaminRamm Good question- the survey is actually ready to go, but I haven’t had time to send it out and then analyse the data as I‘be been focused on my book and other projects – I do intend to though – always looking for collaborators so if it’s of interest DM me
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Alexander Beiner retweeted: Check out our latest paper in @ScienceMagazine about the mechanism of #psychedelic-induced neuroplasticity. Fantastic collaboration between @UCDavisIPN labs @DEOlsonLab, @LinTianPhD, @johnalangray, as well as @MccorvyL! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
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Alexander Beiner retweeted: Check out our latest paper in @ScienceMagazine about the mechanism of #psychedelic-induced neuroplasticity. Fantastic collaboration between @UCDavisIPN labs @DEOlsonLab, @LinTianPhD, @johnalangray, as well as @MccorvyL! science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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The Bigger Picture : The Art of Difficult Conversations beiner.substack.com/p/the-art-of-d…
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@aimee_tollan @JasterAlaina @breakingcon Thanks Aimee! This was early thinking @JasterAlaina – I made a shot doc about it a few months later youtube.com/watch?v=rf7S0P… And there’s a chapter on this question in my upcoming book ‘The Bigger Picture’ penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724758/t…
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@tommaso_barba Because they’re trying to solve ontological problems with biological interventions
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The Bigger Picture — Broken Men in a Broken World: The Last of Us, God of War and The Banshees of Inisherin beiner.substack.com/p/broken-men-i…
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@benpartridge If you listen to episode 455 of Chatatar (around the 4 hour 55 min point where they interview the Key Grip from the first Avatar) you can get the whole backstory around the Academy’s decision.
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Alexander Beiner retweeted: It was great to have @AlexanderBeiner speak at the first Exeter psychedelic colloquium this term, on: ‘Strange Drugs for Strange Times: How Psychedelics can Change Society’. Recording here: blogs.exeter.ac.uk/philosophyandp…
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@PeterSjostedtH Thanks for having me Peter – great audience and loved seeing Exeter University for …
@PeterSjostedtH Thanks for having me Peter – great audience and loved seeing Exeter University for the first time – bring on @breakingcon 2023!
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The Bigger Picture : ‘Why Socrates was a Monster’ with John Vervaeke beiner.substack.com/p/why-socrates…
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