Alexander Beiner is one of the Executive Directors of Breaking Convention. He is a journalist and the author of The Bigger Picture: How psychedelics can help us make sense of  the world, and writes a bestselling Substack, The Bigger Picture.

His work focuses on the intersection of psychedelics and systems change, and he is an advisor to MINDS, a psychedelic non-profit investigating Psychedelic-assisted innovation and problem-solving for humanity's greatest challenges. He was also one of the founders of Rebel Wisdom, a popular alternative media platform that ran from 2017-2022.

Hanging up the Phone: How to Internalise Psychedelic Wisdom

Alan Watts famously said about psychedelics “Once you get the message, hang up the phone”. But what does it actually mean? This talk will expand in the ideas in my book ‘The Bigger Picture’ to explain how 4E cognitive science and psychedelic phenomenology can help us internalise psychedelic ways of seeing and being that go beyond the drugs themselves.