{"id":1635,"date":"2023-10-06T15:10:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T15:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/psychedelics\/?page_id=1635"},"modified":"2023-10-06T15:10:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T15:10:12","slug":"alexander-beiner-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/psychedelic-colloquium-archive\/alexander-beiner-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Beiner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contributor &#8211; Speaker<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/psychedelic-colloquium-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/745\/2023\/10\/Alexander-Beiner-1-300x252.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1637\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/psychedelic-colloquium-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/745\/2023\/10\/Alexander-Beiner-1-300x252.webp 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/psychedelic-colloquium-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/745\/2023\/10\/Alexander-Beiner-1.webp 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Alexander Beiner is a writer and podcaster. He\u2019s one of the executive directors of Breaking Convention, and the author of the upcoming book&nbsp;<em>The Bigger Picture: How Psychedelics can Help us Make Sense of the World<\/em>, published by Hay House in June 2023.<br>In 2018, he co-founded Rebel Wisdom, an alternative media and events platform that grew to a quarter of a million subscribers, and became an influential node in the systems change, personal growth and sense-making communities. His work explores how psychedelics can be used to elicit sustainable cultural change, the complexities of psychedelic capitalism and mainstreaming, and how differing beliefs and value systems affect psychedelic culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Colloquium Presentation: 20 January 2023, 3.30\u20135pm (in person, WS Room 105)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Strange Drugs for Strange Times: How psychedelics can change society<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong>:<br>Can psychedelics help us tackle the biggest problems we&nbsp;face as a species? That\u2019s the question at the heart of Alexander Beiner\u2019s new book \u2018The Bigger Picture\u2019, coming out in June 2023. In this talk, he\u2019ll explore how psychedelic experiences can help us access the ways of seeing and being that could help us find a way through \u2018the&nbsp;Big Crisis\u2019: the overlapping existential risks of climate change, geopolitical instability, cultural polarisation and our seeming inability to co-ordinate at scale to meet these problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, like any trip, the road through it isn\u2019t likely to be easy. 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