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Alexander Beiner is a writer, journalist, and facilitator focused on culture, systems change, and sensemaking in a complex world. He is best known as a co-founder of Rebel Wisdom, an alternative media platform (2017–2022) that explored topics such as polarization, consciousness, and the evolving cultural landscape through long-form conversations and events.

He is the author of The Bigger Picture: How Psychedelics Can Help Us Make Sense of the World and currently leads Kainos, a storytelling and media studio focused on helping people navigate societal transformation. Beiner is also an executive director of Breaking Convention, Europe’s longest-running conference on psychedelic science and culture, and has facilitated workshops and experiences for thousands of participants worldwide.

His work sits at the intersection of psychology, spirituality, and cultural evolution, often exploring how new ways of thinking and inner development can help address today’s global challenges. 

 

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Walking the Middle Way

Robert M. Ellis and I explore the Middle Way as a practical way of moving beyond rigid beliefs and navigating uncertainty with openness. We discover fascinating overlaps with the Third Attractor, while also challenging each other on metaphysics, ethics and AI.

64 min · 12 Sep 2026

A Really Regenerative Future

The Third Attractor emerging through a return to place, relationship and the principles of living systems. We explore why a truly regenerative future requires more than new technologies and economic models: it asks us to transform how we think, collaborate and understand our place within the living world.

77 min · 4 Sep 2026

Darwin Beyond Biology

What does it take to build a truly pro-social world? In this conversation, evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson brings Darwinian evolution into dialogue with the vision of the Third Attractor.

86 min · 26 Aug 2026

The Sapient Cosmos

What if consciousness is not produced by the universe, but is the ground from which the universe emerges? In this conversation, physicist and author James B. Glattfelder explores ideas from The Sapient Cosmos.

67 min · 24 Aug 2026