Ch. 3 AI & Our God-shaped Hole
A collision of two ideas that don't usually share a room: artificial intelligence and spirituality. Alexander Beiner and Catriona Wallace sit with what is arriving, drawing on psychedelics and animism: a new kind of intelligence even its makers don't fully understand, and the ancient questions it...
E39. What's It Like To Be Injected With DMT For 40 Minutes Straight?
What happens when you're injected with DMT for 40 minutes straight... on four separate occasions?
Alexander Beiner was one of nine participants in the Imperial College of London's DMTx extended state trial — a protocol designed to push a human being to the peak of a psychedelic experience and ho...
MiCRO:16 — The Attention War: How Screens Are Hijacking Your Consciousness | Carl Hayden Smith
Is your attention being trained the same way an algorithm is trained?
In this micro, Carl Hayden Smith joins me to unpack what he calls the attention war: how algorithms and short-form media shape the brain toward ADHD-like patterns, whether you have ADHD or not. We also talk about what surfaces...
#56 Trust, Reality & Sensemaking with Alexander Beiner
Alexander Beiner is an author, filmmaker and co-founder of Kainos, whose documentary Leviathan explores why social trust is breaking down and how we find it again. He's also the author of The Bigger Picture and a co-director of Breaking Convention, Europe's largest conference on psychedelic medic...
E47. SOLO: How Psychedelics Helped Heal My Deepest Shame
Can one psychedelic experience change a pattern you’ve lived with for a decade – without magically fixing everything else?In this solo episode of On The Same Paige, I share one of the most personal parts of my story: my ten-year struggle with bulimia, the ayahuasca ceremony that unexpectedly beca...
Cognition in Motion with Andrea Hiott
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#161 - Meet The Psychonaut Who Survived Extended-State DMT
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Alexander Beiner is the writer who volunteered as a guinea pig for the world's first extended-state DMT trial. At Imperial College L...
Ch 9. Superintelligence
Should we be building intelligence more powerful than our own, and can a society that is distracted and tired hold a decision of that scale?
Andrea Miotti makes the case for a prohibition on superintelligence, and traces it back to where it began with a handful of people long before chatbots exis...
