Rebel Wisdom
214 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★ - 258 ratingsWe uncover the most rebellious ideas in philosophy, human potential and culture to find direction through the chaos of the times.
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The Metaverse: Facebook vs Sci-Fi with Damien Walter
November 08, 2021 18:13 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MBMark Zuckerberg recently announced plans to create a new VR 'Metaverse', psychedelic sci-fi classic Dune is the film of the moment, and the super-rich are trying to colonise Mars. The influence of science fiction on culture seems stronger than ever - but why does it matter? In this conversation in the Rebel Wisdom digital campfire, Alexander Beiner talks with sci-fi expert Damien Walter - star of our recent film 'Dune & The Deeper Meaning of Sci-Fi' and host of the host of the Science Ficti...
Stories & Status, Will Storr
November 03, 2021 18:34 - 1 hour - 41.1 MBWill Storr is an author and journalist, and an avid student of human psychology, the stories we tell ourselves and the games we play with ourselves and others. In this fascinating conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller, he discusses the trajectory of his exploration of the topic through his books Selfie, The Science of Storytelling and recent book The Status Game. Rebel Wisdom will be hosting a live event with Will in our Digital Campfire on Monday 8th November. To join ch...
The Modern Dating Economy, James Bloodworth
November 02, 2021 12:34 - 1 hour - 39.7 MBThe tech revolution has completely changed the way we meet and mate, creating a hugely unequal playing field of winners and losers. James Bloodworth is the host of the Modern Dating Economy podcast, trying to understand what this revolution is doing to society. This was a conversation with Raven Connolly as part of the Sex and Culture series. To join future conversations like this, become a Rebel Wisdom member: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans
A Poker Pro Explains Game Theory: Liv Boeree
October 26, 2021 22:35 - 1 hour - 157 MBLiv Boeree was a top ranked poker player and won more than $4 million on the international circuit. A self-professed nerd with a degree in astrophysics, she now has her own YouTube channel making films about game theory, complexity, physics and more. In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's Alexander Beiner, she explains why game theory is such a useful tool for making sense of culture, how her time playing poker changed her attitude to intuition, and how an ancient Canaanite deity called M...
Sensemaking & Complexity, Dave Snowden
October 25, 2021 17:03 - 1 hour - 142 MBDave Snowden is one of the originators of the field of sensemaking, and the creator of influential frameworks such as the Cynefin model. In this conversation with David Fuller, he talks about the origin of his work, and how it applies to the pandemic landscape. You can find out more about Dave's work here: https://www.cognitive-edge.com/
Dune & the Deeper Meaning of Sci Fi, Rebel Wisdom
October 23, 2021 09:42 - 1 hour - 43.1 MBThe new Sci Fi epic Dune is one of the year's biggest releases, and one of the most anticipated science fiction films in years. At Rebel Wisdom we are taking this opportunity to ask some deeper questions, including what is the meaning of Sci Fi? And what are the stories we are choosing to tell saying about us, who we are, and who we want to be? This is a discussion delving into these questions with the host of the Sci Fi podcast, and big fan of Rebel Wisdom, Damien Walter. He talks about h...
The Future of Psychedelics with Dennis McKenna
October 21, 2021 22:21 - 1 hour - 177 MBDennis 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 school. In this wide ranging conversation, we discuss psychedelic capitalism, Dennis' thoughts on the future of psychedelic mainstreaming, in...
Chappelle & Trans Activism, Katie Herzog
October 20, 2021 23:40 - 49 minutes - 113 MBControversies over the topic of trans seem to come around on a weekly basis. The latest is around the recent comedy special by Dave Chappelle on Netflix. In the UK there was a big scandal over a concerted attempt to cancel the academic Kathleen Stock at her university, and a groundbreaking new podcast series from the BBC about the activist organisation Stonewall. Katie Herzog is the co-host of the podcast Blocked and Reported which "scours the internet for its craziest, silliest, most socio...
Rogan, CNN & Heterodox Thinking, Zubin Damania
October 19, 2021 08:26 - 4 minutes - 59.3 MBThe pandemic has stress tested all our institutions, especially those we have relied on for truth seeking and sensemaking. It's deepened the chasm between mainstream and alternative, consensus and contrarian. A couple of days ago the most popular alternative media personality in the world, Joe Rogan, hosted mainstream CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta for a three hour special on vaccines and the pandemic. A small number of the clips went viral, but the full episode was much more nuanc...
Manson & the Secret War of the 60s, Tom O‘Neill
October 05, 2021 18:54 - 59 minutes - 137 MBInvestigative journalist Tom O'Neill started researching the Manson killings in 1999, twenty years later he finally published what became one of the most complete accounts of the secret war against the counterculture of the 1960s. He discovered links to the CIA's top secret mind control project MK Ultra, the JFK assassination and much more. In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller, they talk about the untold story of this seismic time in American history and ask if America nee...
The Ethics of Alternative Media, Chris Williamson
September 30, 2021 12:08 - 1 hour - 273 MBThis 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. n this fascinating dialogue with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller they discuss the challenges of Sensemaking outside the institutions, the pressures on creators and the ethical dilemmas involved in hos...
Growth & Awakening, Rafia Morgan
September 29, 2021 12:44 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MBRafia Morgan has been a facilitator and counsellor for over 40 years, and is something of a mentor to us at Rebel Wisdom. In this wide ranging conversation with David Fuller, they discuss the positives and the pitfalls of awakening, and the huge shifts that have taken place in personal growth work since it first broke through to mainstream awareness in the 1960s. David's talk about his father's death they mention is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n_fi... Rafia and his co-facilit...
Ivermectin, the Backstory of the FLCCC. Eric Osgood
August 31, 2021 13:06 - 1 hour - 65.6 MBRebel Wisdom has been covering the ongoing controversy over the claims to do with the drug Ivermectin and those who claim the Covid vaccines are dangerous. The principle advocate for Ivermectin has been the doctor Pierre Kory and his organisation the Frontline Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC). However, behind the scenes there has been growing concern about the closeness between the FLCCC and anti-vaccine activists. Eric Osgood MD was part of the FLCCC, but is now speaking out...
The State of Sensemaking, Rebel Wisdom Series
August 30, 2021 17:38 - 1 hour - 68.4 MBFor 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 of all our issues, because how can we begin to solve our problems if we can't agree what they are, and have no shared sense of reality. In this new series Rebel Wisdom lau...
Vaccines & Dark Horse, an Investigation
August 17, 2021 09:08 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBOver the last few weeks, Rebel Wisdom has been investigating the claims of vaccine dangers made by Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying and their guests on the Dark Horse podcast. This has not been an easy process given Bret and Heather are former interviewees and friends. But the stakes could not be higher, and this issue shows up all of the problems of Sensemaking, and finding truth. At the same time as this film is being released, David Fuller has written a piece for Areo magazine look...
Eric Weinstein: Vaccines, Ivermectin & Dark Horse
July 29, 2021 18:40 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBWhat does Eric Weinstein make of the current controversy around vaccines and Ivermectin, centred on the criticism of his brother Bret's podcast, the Dark Horse. In the last days, Sam Harris and former guest Yuri Deigin have both been heavily critical of claims made by both Bret and his guests. In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller, Eric talks through his concerns at what is going on, and what he thinks are the deeper currents of the problem, including a lack of effective le...
Ivermectin, For and Against, with Tess Lawrie, Graham Walker & Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz
July 26, 2021 20:58 - 1 hour - 71.3 MBIn recent months, Ivermectin has gone from a little known anti parasite drug to a culture war battleground - for some it's a potential miracle drug for treating and prevention of Covid and for others it's over-hyped snake oil. Discussion of Ivermectin has also led to censorship from the Big Tech platforms. But the free speech/censorship dynamic is only part of the story - is also shows how broken our information landscape is - with the advocates on one side, and the skeptics on the other - ...
The Weirdest People in the World with Joseph Henrich
July 23, 2021 12:00 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBIf you're reading this, there's a good chance you're WEIRD - raised in a culture which is Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, Democratic. Joseph Henrich is professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a pioneer in the study of WEIRD psychology - how it evolved, its unique characteristics, and why we need to understand it. In this session in the Rebel Wisdom Campfire, Henrich joined us to discuss his book 'The Weirdest People in the World' - drawing on cutting-edge...
Medicines, Censorship, Quillette & the Dark Horse, a sensemaking dialogue
July 10, 2021 10:26 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBThere has been a lot of heat recently around YouTube censoring Bret Weinstein's Dark Horse podcast discussions around the vaccines and the drug Ivermectin. Yesterday Quillette published an article highly critical of Bret co-authored by Yuri Deigin, one of the researchers who uncovered evidence on the 'lab leak' hypothesis and a former guest on Bret's podcast: https://quillette.com/2021/07/06/look... This was a discussion about the deeper issues at play, the difficulties of finding truth a...
Medicine, Censorship & Truth, Zubin Damania
June 30, 2021 18:06 - 1 hour - 68.4 MBZubin Damania, AKA ZDoggMD is a Stanford-trained MD who became something of a medical star during Covid. In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller they discuss the difficulty in finding truth online, the rise in censorship by the big tech platforms, and also his keen interest in the future of healthcare and his interest in spirituality and awakening. This was a fascinating conversation. Zubin will be joining our Digital Campfire for a member's Q&A on July 14th, to join that ca...
Making Sense in 2021: Daniel Schmachtenberger, John Vervaeke, Sara Ness & Doshin Roshi
June 29, 2021 14:42 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBWhat are Daniel Schmachtenberger, John Vervaeke, Sara Ness & Doshin Roshi trying to make sense of right now? We catch up with the faculty of our online course, Sensemaking 101, to find out what questions they've been wresting with recently. We also discuss how we think the information landscape has shifted in the last 6 months, reflect on the challenges of figuring out how to navigate the complexity and weirdness of 2021, and share which practices we've found essential in improving agency, ...
Sensemaking the 'Lab Leak', Rebel Wisdom
June 18, 2021 13:43 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBIn the last few weeks, the suggestion that the Covid virus emerged from a lab in Wuhan instead of the wild has gone from 'fringe conspiracy theory', to 'possibility' to 'most likely explanation' for many mainstream media outlets. At the same time, the way that the 'consensus' position was created and defended has been laid bare. This is a hugely important story that touches on many of the topics we've covered on Rebel Wisdom, the problems of Sensemaking, the manipulation of the informatio...
A Time Between Worlds, Zak Stein
June 08, 2021 12:51 - 1 hour - 70.3 MBZak is an influential voice among those wrestling with the deep problems with the source code of our culture, and he is particularly focused on the problems of learning and education. We welcomed Zak to this Digital Campfire event, where we will dive into his concept of a "Time Between Worlds". His piece a year ago, "A War Broke out in Heaven" caused a stir, proposing that "We are being shaped by vast and complex forces into becoming new kinds of people: http://www.zakstein.org/blog/ He...
Jordan Petersonitis, Jonathan Rowson
June 03, 2021 13:27 - 1 hour - 74.2 MBJonathan Rowson is a philosopher and chess grandmaster, who did an interview with Jordan Peterson at the Royal Society for the Arts in January 2018. In the aftermath he received a lot of criticism online from Peterson's fans, and spent six months trying to make sense of his interaction with the 'Peterson Phenomenon'. This took the form of a long essay, trying to wrestle with what he called 'Petersonitis': https://integral-review.org/an-episte... Now, more than three years on, he talks t...
Facing Death with Stephen Jenkinson: Wisdom Gym
June 02, 2021 15:46 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MBIn this episode of the Wisdom Gym, we're joined by Stephen Jenkinson, best known as one of the world's leading commentators on our cultural attitudes to death. The author of 'Die Wise' and 'The Case for Elderhood in Times of Trouble', Jenkinson is also a musician, cultural activist and co-founder of a training school called Orphan Wisdom. With a live audience of Rebel Wisdom members, he explored what it means to live in a death-phobic culture, how the pandemic has affected our attitudes t...
Psychedelic Capitalism: Debate with Compass Pathways Co-Founder
June 01, 2021 15:37 - 1 hour - 80.3 MBAs psychedelics enter the mainstream, a lot of people are concerned that they're being captured by corporate interests. In this debate, hosted by the Oxford University Psychedelic Society on 27 May, Alexander Beiner and Lars Wilde (President and Co-Founder of Compass Pathways) discussed the controversies surrounding Compass Pathways' patenting strategy, the future of the field and more. The Oxford University Psychedelic Society run regular events, check them out on: https://www.oxfords...
Pandemics & Podcasts, Heather Heying Q&A
May 25, 2021 16:20 - 1 hour - 68.5 MBOver the last year, Heather Heying and her husband Bret Weinstein have turned their podcast the Dark Horse, into a commentary on the pandemic. It's a long way from their background as evolutionary biology professors at Evergreen college, which they were forced to leave in 2017. How has the journey been over the last year, and what can be learnt from it? This Q&A was recorded in April in the Rebel Wisdom Digital Campfire. To see upcoming events, and join conversations like this, check he...
Lessons from the Brian Rose Implosion, with Nic Gabriel & Coffeezilla
May 24, 2021 18:06 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBWhat have we learnt from Brian Rose's spectacular London Mayor flameout, and assorted other scams? This was a conversation including Nic Gabriel, the original co-host of London Real, Coffeezilla, who has done so much to expose Brian over the last months, hosted by Rebel Wisdom in the Digital Campfire. David Fuller has just written a new Medium piece summarising the unanswered questions about Brian's mayoral bid, in particular, whether any of the money from the 'Digital Freedom Platform' sca...
Alan Watts, 'The Book: The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are', with Tim Lott
May 19, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 73.8 MBAlan Watts is still considered one of the most penetrating and influential thinkers on the topic of spirituality, and played a pivotal role in introducing the west to Eastern religious thinking. In this edition of the Rebel Wisdom Book Club, author and Watts expert Tim Lott discusses one of his most intriguing books, 'The Book: The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are'. The Book Club is a monthly event hosted in Rebel Wisdom's Digital Campfire in front of a live audience. To join around e...
What is a Live Player? Samo Burja
May 05, 2021 19:15 - 1 hour - 72.5 MBWhat is a Live Player? How does this concept help us make sense of the cultural landscape? Is becoming one important, maybe essential? Samo Burja is a deep thinker with a talent for creating concepts that help make sense of the cultural landscape, such as 'Live Player', meaning a person or organisation capable of novelty, versus one only able to run existing scripts. The pandemic, and the inept response to it has shown up how many institutions and organisations are now effectively 'dead ...
Reactionary Feminism? Mary Harrington
May 04, 2021 10:27 - 1 hour - 80.2 MBMary recently took part in Rebel Wisdom's first 'Sex and Culture' event, where there was a great deal of interest in her concept of 'reactionary feminism'. She returns to Rebel Wisdom for a showcase event in our Digital Campfire, in dialogue with Raven Connolly. She says: "The central contention of reactionary feminism is that the ideas of 'freedom' and 'progress' themselves are now delivering diminishing returns for all but a shrinking elite. And this is impacting especially severely on ...
Recapture the Rapture, Jamie Wheal
April 26, 2021 17:52 - 1 hour - 65.9 MBIn the face of multiple existential threats, and a pervasive crisis of meaning, how can we reconnect to our deepest purpose and what techniques and practices can help us reboot. Jamie Wheal is launching his new book, Recapture the Rapture, based on three principles: Choose Your Own Apocalypse, The Alchemist's Cookbook and Ethical Cult Building. Rebel Wisdom is co-hosting the launch party for the book with Jamie on Wednesday 28th April with guests including Gabor Mate, Dennis McKenna, Dou...
Brian Rose's London Mayor Scam, with Coffeezilla
April 22, 2021 11:47 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBBrian Rose is the grift that keeps on giving. After his successful attempts to part people from their money through his scam 'Digital Freedom Platform' last year, he's now running for London Mayor. After becoming a laughing stock on YouTube, Brian is now determined to bring his failing personality cult to the capital's voters. He claims to be running in second place, and the main challenger to Mayor Sadiq Khan, but as can be expected by now with Brian, that's a lie. And it's not the only o...
The State of Integral, Layman Pascal & Bruce Alderman
April 19, 2021 18:06 - 1 hour - 70.8 MBIntegral Theory has been a hugely influential school of thought in alternative communities for decades, likely peaking in the early 2000s. Created largely by the philosopher Ken Wilber, it still maintains a strong influence, and has featured several times on Rebel Wisdom. What light can it shed on current cultural dynamics? This was a discussion on Rebel Wisdom's Digital Campfire with the hosts of the Integral Stage podcast, Layman Pascal and Bruce Alderman. We have just relaunched our...
Rebooting the Psychedelic Renaissance with Jamie Wheal
April 15, 2021 15:20 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBRecently, we released 'Endgame for the Psychedelic Renaissance?' in which Alexander Beiner caught up with Jamie Wheal to make sense of recent tensions in the psychedelic space around patenting, IP disputes and lobbying. In this follow up, we move the conversation forward to explore possible ways to reboot the psychedelic renaissance. Jamie lays out 3 different approaches people are using to ensure psychedelic culture keeps its transformative potential: working within the existing game to c...
Endgame for the Psychedelic Renaissance? Jamie Wheal
March 17, 2021 20:00 - 46 minutes - 63.5 MBTensions are running high in the fast-growing field of psychedelic medicine. As companies use aggressive tactics to corner the market, researchers and activists are being pushed toward check-mate. Alexander Beiner speaks with Jamie Wheal to make sense of what's been happening - including patent grabs, Tim Ferriss raising the alarm around psychedelic ethics, and striking new accusations of corporate lobbying to prevent Oregon from democratising psilocybin therapy.
Clubhouse, the New Media Battleground. Rebel Wisdom
March 08, 2021 18:44 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBClubhouse is the new audio-only social media network that's been described as a continual podcast that you can drop in and take part in. It's been valued at over $1bn, making it a rare 'unicorn' company, and is now growing exponentially as competitors like Facebook scramble to produce competing versions. Is the hype justified, and what are the dynamics of this new network? What can we make of Bret Weinstein's recent 'struggle session', and what might be possible in this new medium? Reb...
Walking the Talk on Free Speech? With Triggernometry
March 03, 2021 17:44 - 1 hour - 125 MBWhat does free speech mean in practice, and just as importantly, what are the rights and responsibilities of creators and journalists? Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller and Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster of Triggernometry explore the complexities of free speech in an enjoyable and sometimes heated conversation. Triggernometry Channel To discuss the ideas in our films and take part, check out Rebel Wisdom's Digital Campfire: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans
The Cancelling of Slate Star Codex, with Tom Chivers
February 19, 2021 15:37 - 27 minutes - 37.1 MBAt the weekend, the New York Times published a long awaited article about one of the world's most celebrated blogs, Slate Star Codex, a central node of the influential rationalist community. Called 'Silicon Valley's Safe Space', it was widely criticised as an inaccurate hit piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/te... This is an interview with Tom Chivers, the writer of 'The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy', on the backstory to the controversy. What does this say about the ongoing c...
Connection & Covid with Gabor Maté: Wisdom Gym
February 15, 2021 13:48 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBDr Gabor Maté is a bestselling author and one of the world's leading voices in the science of the mind-body connection, healing addiction and transforming trauma. In this episode of the Wisdom Gym, he talks about how the pandemic is affecting our ability to connect, and what we can do in relation to it. He also demonstrates a powerful psychotherapeutic approach he has developed called Compassionate Inquiry, and answers audience questions. This is an edit of our Wisdom Gym, which is avai...
The Dark Side of Spirituality, Alex Ebert & Jules Evans
February 13, 2021 14:40 - 1 hour - 58 MBWhat is the link between spirituality and eugenics? What is the dark side of spirituality? This conversation brings together Alex Ebert, singer and songwriter for Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, and Jules Evans, philosopher and writer. Jules will be doing a series of exclusive talks for the Rebel Wisdom Digital Campfire starting Thursday 11th February, to join, check here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans
The Q Anon 'Shaman' & The Return of the Mythic
January 15, 2021 18:07 - 53 minutes - 73.9 MBIn the last week so many of the topics that Rebel Wisdom has been covering burst onto the world stage, the birth of new religions, the overlap between spirituality and conspiracy/Q Anon, and more, all personified in the iconic image of the Q Anon Shaman, leading the mob that stormed the seat of American democracy. In this film, we try to pull apart the deeper strands of mythology, religious fervour and high weirdness with three experts in the esoteric, Erik Davis, Gary Lachman and Jules Eva...
Now WTF is going on? American Meltdown Edition
January 14, 2021 14:04 - 1 hour - 129 MBIn this latest film in Rebel Wisdom's Sensemaking Series, David Fuller attempts to make sense of an astonishing week for America and the world. From the scenes in the US Capitol, Q Anon making the final leap from fringe conspiracy theory to the centre of American government, to the reaction of big tech, Twitter booting Donald Trump and the demise of Parler. In this talk and Q&A for the Rebel Wisdom Community, David tries to tease out the complexities of the situation, and how multiple narra...
The Rise of Psychedelic Capitalism
January 09, 2021 13:01 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBPsychedelics are going mainstream. With landmark studies in the last decade showing their incredible potential in treating serious mental health conditions, 2020 saw a goldrush of investment. But what are the implications as psychedelics move from the counterculture to the boardroom? In this short documentary, Alexander Beiner speaks to leading experts in the field - from clinicians and CEO's to shamans and philosophers - to ask what the rise of psychedelic capitalism means for the future of...
Decoding Culture: New Religions. Jonathan Pageau & Jules Evans
December 31, 2020 19:18 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBIn the first episode of 'Decoding Culture', Alexander Beiner is joined by Jonathan Pageau and Jules Evans to discuss whether we're witnessing the birth of major new religions in 2020. In a three way conversation, we try to make sense of cultural phenomena like Wokeism and Conspirituality to figure out whether they're historical blips, new forms of religious worship, or something else entirely. Jules Evans is the bestselling author of 'Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations' an...
Art, Race and Transformation, Chloe Valdary
December 22, 2020 17:24 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBChloe Valdary uses art and literature to teach empathy, depolarisation and anti-racism. But not anti-racism as practiced by the likes of Ibram Kendi or Robin DiAngelo (White Fragility). In fact, she believes that Critical Race Theory is a betrayal of the artistic heritage of Black America. In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller, they cover the legacy of black art, the inheritance of Martin Luther King and much more. Chloe's work can be found here: https://theoryofenchant...
Creating Community During Covid, Rich Bartlett
December 09, 2020 14:29 - 38 minutes - 35 MBThe pandemic has led a lot of people to rethink every aspect of their lives, where they work, where they live, who they live with. Rich Bartlett says it's created a huge boost in the number of people who say they want to create community. But it's not so easy. Rich has spent the last decade or so looking at why communities succeed, why they fail, and how to create methods of connection and growth. Together with his wife Nati, they run workshops in 'Microsolidarity'. Starting on T...
WTF is Going On? If Everything is Far Right Then Nothing Is
December 09, 2020 14:28 - 10 minutes - 9.4 MBWhy is Rebel Wisdom listed as 'far right' in a new academic study? Does it point to a major crisis in sensemaking in mainstream institutions? In this latest edition of the Sensemaking Series, we take a look at the questions raised by this report, from academics at places like Harvard, Santa Fe Institute, University of Pennsylvania and more. The study: https://transfer-learning.ai/paper/ev... Transparency Tube: https://transparency.tube/ Films featured or mentioned. WTF is Going On ...
Dealing with Spiritual Emergency, Dr Tim Read
December 09, 2020 14:26 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBSpiritual Emergency is the name given to a psychological crisis with spiritual overtones. It was coined by the psychologist Stan Grof in the 1970s. Dr Tim Read is a leading psychiatrist and is also trained as a holotropic breathwork practitioner with Stan Grof. He was Consultant at the Royal London Hospital for over twenty years leading the Liaison Psychiatry service and the Crisis Intervention service. In this discussion with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller, they talk about the phenomenon o...
Flow & Transformation, Q&A with Jamie Wheal
December 03, 2020 18:37 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBJamie Wheal is a long time friend of Rebel Wisdom, the creator of the Flow Genome Project, author of 'Stealing Fire', and the upcoming 'Recapture the Rapture'. In this member Q&A he talks about the nature of flow, whether mainstream culture is also a cult, and much more. Check out the Flow Genome Project here: https://www.flowgenomeproject.com/ To join future Q&A calls, consider becoming a Rebel Wisdom member: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans