Alexander Beiner

It's finally here! My first book 'The Bigger Picture: How psychedelics can help us make sense of the world' publishes today around the world. Get your copy from Amazon, Waterstones, Barnes and Noble, Audible and other retailers listed on my website alexanderbeiner.com

"Culture is born through the union of women and men. When culture becomes toxic, it is often because that union has broken." - @AlexanderBeiner -

"Psychedelics transform us through felt experience....The reason venture capitalists, Transhumanists and longevity obsessives are terrible stewards of these experiences is that they... see the world primarily through the lens of quantity." beiner.substack.com/p/bryan-johnso…

@kellyeld Amazing

A made a concept piece based on Carl Jung’s Red Book More on his state of mind. The actual artwork in this book is so stunning. I feel like his take on the collective consciousness is what ai is today. A collective of all consciousness available to all. Lyrics by me and song made using Suno. #ai #aiart #aivideo

Leviathan, by @AlexanderBeiner On why trust is breaking down and how to fix it. beiner.substack.com/p/leviathan-fu…

New Psychedelics Today episode with Alexander Beiner is out now. We get into psychedelics, culture, power, and how these experiences can shift the systems we’re part of. Listen here: bit.ly/3XQwZtW @AlexanderBeiner @breakingcon

a great Nate Soares/@MIRIBerkeley interview. Thank you @AlexanderBeiner ! beiner.substack.com/p/how-to-stop-…

We've amputated the sacred dimension of reality and yet the wound still bleeds. But that realization (painful though it is) can become a turning point. It gestures toward a deeper mode of attunement: Religio The sacred binding that connects us to reality in all its depth and fullness. Religio not in the institutional sense but in its original meaning: The binding force, the connectedness between self and world. The enacted realization that meaning is not manufactured but disclosed when we are rightly related to reality. On the horizontal axis this includes your connection to others (family, friends, community) but also to the world itself. When you gaze at the night sky and feel awe, or when you enter deep dialogue with another person. The vertical axis relates to your inner structure, the relationship between your capacity to act (agency), your sense of ongoing identity (selfhood), and your unfolding depth as a moral and spiritual being (personhood). Religio is the name for the connective tissue that makes all of this coherent. It is what allows you to live in a world rather than merely occupy a space. It is afforded by an ecology of practices that lets you become a person rather than just a bundle of preferences.

@RichDecibels There’s no way I’d join that group

they should invent a group with no outsiders

A must read from Trish Blain via @AlexanderBeiner

Alexander Beiner - The Bigger Picture: How Psychedelics Can Help Us Make Sense of the World x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@Liv_Boeree Congratulations!

WE FINALLY DID IT!!!

At the root of the human predicament is the inversion of the hierarchy between abstraction/parts and embodiment/whole. That's the diagnosis of brilliant psychiatrist @dr_mcgilchrist, and the thesis of Leviathan — a powerful new documentary by @AlexanderBeiner. Specifically: ✨Embodiment/whole should be the master, and abstraction/parts should be the emissary✨ This is a potent place to land a diagnosis because: 1⃣ It puts humanity on the same team! Instead of us against them, it's humanity against a relatively recent propensity of ours. 2⃣ The relationship between abstraction and embodiment is something that manifests itself at all levels of organization. And something we all have agency around. For example: every week, I observe Shabbat. I spend 6 days a week abstracting and manipulating parts, and 1 holy day embodying and revering the whole. This diagnosis makes something as seemingly simple as observing a Shabbat a way to face the Leviathan. Watch the full documentary: beiner.substack.com/p/leviathan-fu…

YT algo suggested a channel called Kainos with some dudes named @dr_mcgilchrist @AlexanderBeiner talking about the state of "things." Never heard of either, but the conversation covered some truly relevant topics. Very interesting. Nice Work!!! Keep it up!!! ⭐️ { all <3 || no h8 }

@cube_flipper It might be worth connecting with some psychedelic neuroscientists - I know many if you DM me - possibly worth them trying Iboga as it has a positive effect on traumatic brain injury - I’m not a scientist so just a guess but seems like anything is worth exploring

also posting here in the small hope there's an OCD specialist or meditation teacher here on twitter who might be able to recommend something that could help.

i had an email out of the blue the other day from somebody who was experiencing a strange and bewildering neurological condition. i asked if i could post about it here and they gave me permission to

We tend to think that if we just adopt the right beliefs—we’ll somehow reconnect with the sacred. But this arises from a fundamental misunderstanding of the condition we find ourselves in: The Enlightenment radically transformed the very grammar by which we once oriented ourselves to the sacred. Let me explain…

Disconnected Abstraction has overtaken 'Touching Grass' for millenia.. and it's slowly become catastrophic. My quick summary of Leviathan — a new, thought-provoking doco. How do we get back into Right Relation with the living world? How far back does this Wrong Story go?

you should watch @AlexanderBeiner's film it names the egregore most upstream of the metacrisis (even more important than Moloch): Leviathan, disconnected abstraction weaves together interviews from @DrJohnVervaeke @NoraBateson @rushkoff @yanisvaroufakis...

@beefanddairy Well said. At the end of the day music is just air gravy, and you can’t have gravy without beef.

Beef is the Glastonbury of beef.

This project from @AlexanderBeiner looks great. Check out the trailer.