Iain McGilchrist has been outlining for many years that a fundamental problem in the way we are perceiving the world is likely to lead us into trouble. Now in 2022 he believes the situation is reaching a crucial turning point and we need to wake up urgently.  In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller he talks about how our current culture's domination by a 'left brain', reductionistic, materialist and literalist perspective had reached crisis point.  He explains how this is manifesting as a 'war on reality', and a series of attacks on free speech. Iain's work can be found here: https://channelmcgilchrist.com/ 

Are we going about self development in the wrong way? That's the question tackled by our new film and course with the long time coach Steve March. Steve's work, Aletheia Coaching, has been welcomed and embraced by the likes of John Vervaeke and others in what's been described as the Liminal Web, as it consciously addresses what's called the Meaning Crisis or Meta Crisis. This is released at the same time as a short course with Steve to learn the basics of the Unfolding method, which teaches a powerful new approach to development known as 'unfoldment'. You'll learn: - How to attune to yourself, others, and the world in a way that promotes deeper connection and purpose. - Practices to help you deeply participate in your present-moment experience - Techniques and practices to help you create unfolding partnerships with others To find out more, check here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/courses/unfolding

Iain McGilchrist has been outlining for many years that a fundamental problem in the way we are perceiving the world is likely to lead us into trouble. Now in 2022 he believes the situation is reaching a crucial turning point and we need to wake up urgently. In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller he talks about how our current culture's domination by a 'left brain', reductionistic, materialist and literalist perspective had reached crisis point. He explains how this is manifesting as a 'war on reality', and a series of attacks on free speech. Iain's work can be found here: https://channelmcgilchrist.com/  

Many people have observed that the conversation we have been curating on Rebel Wisdom has featured many more men than women. Of course we have regularly been asking ourselves why that is, and whether there is a more ‘feminine’ contribution to the dialogue that is not being heard? This was the topic I explored with two fascinating women recently, Schuyler Brown and Samantha Sweetwater. Check out Schuyler's work here, 'The Art of Emergence': https://www.artofemergence.com/  And Samantha here: https://www.samanthasweetwater.com/ 

There has been a lot of focus on the damage that social media is doing to all of us, its users. This growing awareness was partly fuelled by the work of Tristan Harris, through the breakout hit documentary The Social Dilemma. But there has been less attention on how this new landscape also affects creators, through factors like audience capture and feedback loops that distort truth seeking.  Tristan Harris is the director of the Centre for Humane Technology, trying to re-envision a healthier relationship with the technological tools we are using: https://www.humanetech.com/ 

Where are we headed as a species? What is the landscape of risks and challenges that we need to confront over the next decades, and are there a small number of key factors that we need to solve to avoid catastrophe? These are the questions Daniel Schmachtenberger is laying out in a new two part series on Rebel Wisdom, called 'In Search of the Third Attractor'. As he describes it, the power of ever increasing technological capacity (exponential tech) means that both destructive and creative capacities are increasing exponentially. Two of the most likely outcomes (attractors) are either some kind of chaotic breakdown, or the development of powerful control systems in response, oppressive authoritarian control. Given this, what does a third option, a 'third attractor' look like? Daniel will be speaking at the Rebel Wisdom festival, 'the Last Campfire' in London on November 5th. To check it out and buy tickets, go to: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/r...  To find out more about the topics Daniel is discussing, check out his work on civilisation, at Civilization Emerging: https://civilizationemerging.com/ And for more on his work around the Sensemaking crisis, check out the Consilience Project: https://consilienceproject.org/   TIMECODES: UNDERSTANDING THE PROBLEM: 00:00:00 BENEVOLENT DICTATORSHIP DOESN'T WORK: 00:06:21 HYPER AGENTS: 00:15:06 GREAT GAME OF POWER: 00:26:55 EGREGORES: 00:34:38 TECHNOLOGY & ETHICS: 00:42:50 TECHNOLOGY CHANGES SOCIETY: 00:49:45 INFRASTRUCTURE, SOCIAL STRUCTURE, SUPERSTRUCTURE: 00:59:49 WISDOM OF GODS: 01:13:14 EDUCATION: 01:30:40 CLOSING THOUGHTS: 01:42:08

Where are we headed as a species? What is the landscape of risks and challenges that we need to confront over the next decades, and are there a small number of key factors that we need to solve to avoid catastrophe? These are the questions Daniel Schmachtenberger is laying out in a new two part series on Rebel Wisdom, called 'In Search of the Third Attractor'. As he describes it, the power of ever increasing technological capacity (exponential tech) means that both destructive and creative capacities are increasing exponentially. Two of the most likely outcomes (attractors) are either some kind of chaotic breakdown, or the development of powerful control systems in response, oppressive authoritarian control. Given this, what does a third option, a 'third attractor' look like? Daniel will be speaking at the Rebel Wisdom festival, 'the Last Campfire' in London on November 5th. To check it out and buy tickets, go to: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rebelwisdom/718672  To find out more about the topics Daniel is discussing, check out his work on civilisation, at Civilization Emerging: https://civilizationemerging.com/  And for more on his work around the Sensemaking crisis, check out the Consilience Project: https://consilienceproject.org/  Timecodes: INTRODUCTION: 00:00:00 SENSEMAKING: 00:02:10 THE TWO ATTRACTORS: 00:06:09 EXISTENTIAL HOPE?: 00:09:01 INTERCONNECTEDNESS: 00:14:33 FAILURES OF ACTIVISM: 00:18:33 CATASTROPHIC RISK: 00:25:08 THE POST WW2 SYSTEM: 00:38:40 EXPONENTIAL DESTRUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY: 00:45:02 NEAR-TERM RISKS: 00:50:48 THE ENERGY TRAP: 00:58:10 PERVERSE INCENTIVES: 01:03:54 PRIVATE GAINS, EXTERNAL LOSSES: 01:09:38 BIOTECH RISKS: 01:14:13 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: 01:19:29 MULTIPOLAR TRAPS: 01:29:03 CORPORATIONS VERSUS INDIVIDUALS: 01:46:54 NEW GOVERNANCE SYSTEMS: 01:53:27 NETWORK DYNAMICS: 01:58:41 SOLVING MULTI-POLAR TRAPS?: 02:06:51 CENTRALISING POWER: 02:17:47 COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: 02:33:00

One of the most frequently referenced names among many of the thinkers we've been following on Rebel Wisdom has been that of Rene Girard. He was a French polymath, historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science, who introduced the idea of memetic desire, and an explanation of the function of the 'scapegoat' in organising societies. He was described as the "new Darwin of the human species".  Luke Burgis has just written a book about Girard's work called 'Wanting, the Power of Memetic Desire in Everyday Life': https://lukeburgis.com/wanting/  He joined us to introduce this fascinating thinker and to answer RW members' questions about why this work is so significant now.

This is part 2 of an exclusive conversation between Jonathan Pageau and John Vervaeke recorded in Toronto recently.  In it John and Jonathan reflect on the recent ‘War on Reality’ piece with Paul Kingsnorth and Mary Harrington: https://youtu.be/x4kms2jkKbA  They ask whether we have replaced virtue with value. They also take a turn into the question of the occult, where Jonathan and John talk about whether concepts such as ‘demons’ can be explained as independently existing patterns of reality.

In the conversation Rebel Wisdom has been tracking, what's missing? Layman Pascal believes we're not paying enough attention to the irrational, the realms of the imaginal and the occult.  "Layman Pascal was incarnated on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest. He used to be a meditation teacher, yoga instructor & public speaker — but he's feeling much better now." He is one of the hosts of the podcast The Integral Stage: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaA4zkLRnR3lGm8Y7c5Tvdw 

In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller, Ken Wilber reflects on the turbulent dynamics of the last few years, and particularly the trajectory of the figures in what was called the Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) including Jordan Peterson and Dave Rubin. This is released shortly after a recent Substack piece by David Fuller called 'What Happened to Jordan Peterson?': https://rebelwisdom.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-jordan-peterson  Ken Wilber is the creator of Integral theory, it attempts to place a wide diversity of theories and models into one single framework. The basis is a "spectrum of consciousness," from archaic consciousness to ultimate spirit, presented as a developmental model. This is a follow up to conversations we recorded back in 2019, which were published as: Ken Wilber: 'Jordan Peterson and the evolution of thought': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDjCnFvz11A  Ken Wilber: The Intellectual Dark Web, an Integral Conversation? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2XK812tSmM 

A wide-ranging conversation on the experience of sensemaking during the pandemic, with Zubin Damania (ZDoggMD). Zubin first came to my attention with a viral video at the start of 2020 where he channelled some righteous anger at the medical establishment's response to the pandemic, and said he hoped that the crisis would be the trigger to “burn this broken system to the ground”. For years he's been arguing for a significant change to the medical system, away from treating people as interchangeable parts in a machine and towards a more holistic vision of what he calls Health 3.0. During the pandemic we compared notes on what we were seeing, through shared frameworks like Ken Wilber's Integral Theory and Jonathan Haidt's “moral tastebuds”. He argues for nuance and complexity, and dubs his political perspective as “alt-middle”. 0:00 - The Pandemic & the Information Ecology 04:02 - Zubin & Health Care 3.0 08:09 - The USP of Rebel Wisdom, curating a conversation 10:09 - The pandemic was a stress test that we failed 14:03 - The internet leaking out into the real world 16:37 - The religiosity of the Covid debate 19:53 - The rise in conspiracy narratives 22:56 - Questioning our own thinking 29:33 - Public intellectuals going off the rails 32:48 - The hermeneutics of suspicion 39:00 - A culture of bullshit 44:14 - Conspiracies thrive in the gaps of the mainstream 46:31 - The pre/trans of the insurgency after 2018 53:34 - Paradox of being outside the institutions - audience capture 58:27 - Warping effects of the tech platforms accelerated on creators 01:00:37 - Attention hijack as opposite of mindfulness 01:02:41 - The tragic arc of Jordan Peterson 01:06:55 - The return of the repressed 01:14:14 - The return of psychedelic medicine 01:18:57 - The limitations of psychedelics 01:22:51 - Meditation & Awakening 01:29:36 - Ayahuasca 01:32:14 - Culture War 2.0 & the memetic tribes 01:43:06 - Post Pandemic Awakening 01:46:39 - The English Taboo Against Earnestness 01:49:30 - Mutual Appreciation Society

This was a special in person dialogue between the cognitive scientist John Vervaeke and the symbolism expert Jonathan Pageau. They reflect on what each finds valuable about each other's work, the nature of the conversation that they have been part of, good and bad criticism, the nature of symbolism and much more.  It was recorded in Toronto during the making of the forthcoming Rebel Wisdom documentary about John Vervaeke's thought. Some behind the scenes pictures, and a second part of this film is available for subscribers on the Rebel Wisdom Substack: LINK HERE John Vervaeke's YouTube channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpqDUjTsof-kTNpnyWper_Q  Jonathan Pageau's work can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtCTSf3UwRU14nYWr_xm-dQ  Timecodes for the conversation: 0:00 - What does Jonathan appreciate about John's work? 3:55 - What does John appreciate about Jonathan's work? 9:35 - What is the nature of the wider conversation you are both part of? 16:10 - The nature of criticism & "civility porn" 24:09 - The need to go beyond the political layer of analysis 26:19 - Paranoia fuelled by the 'Hermeneutics of Suspicion' 35:16 - Dialogue, Curiosity & Wonder 48:25 - How Symbolism breaks the frame and rewires our thinking 54:36 - A parable is to a narrative what a koan is to a question 57:35 - "I want to help people fall in love with Being again" 01:05:23 - The moral of Socrates and Alcibiades 01:12:56 - Patterns of Being; love, faith & beauty 01:21:32 - Freedom cannot be absolute

For years the journalist Oliver Burkeman became obsessed with productivity and personal growth, documenting his explorations in a weekly column. Finally it struck him that this attempt was a deeply religious quest, tied into ideas of perfectibility and salvation. When he realised this, he was finally able to find more peace. "For me, the obsession with productivity was totally tied up with this weird self-worth question. [There's] this whole notion that it's all focussed on some moment when everything's going to be alright…there's something about that feels like it's got something to do with justification and salvation, and that feels very religious to me."  Oliver is someone who has had a similar path to Rebel Wisdom’s founder David Fuller, working for the legacy media, and also very interested in personal growth, and they sat down for a wide ranging and fascinating conversation which we are releasing now as a special preview for all Rebel Wisdom subscribers. Check out Oliver's latest book 'Four Thousand Weeks', a sobering allusion to the average human lifespan: https://www.oliverburkeman.com/books 

Learning how to come to our senses and connect to our bodies is essential in an information landscape that highjacks our attention and pulls it away from what matters to us.  Our new course 'Embodiment and Flow' helps you reconnect through breathwork, mindfulness, cultural embodiment, movement, rhythm and flow training. In this launch film we play clips from the course faculty - John Vervaeke, Schuyler Brown, Nicola Price, Roger Jackson, Dr. Shama Rahman and Tom Morley - as they explain different ways we can connect to our bodies and get into a state of flow. Read more and sign up here: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/courses/embodiment  Learn practical embodiment tools you can apply to your life, and to making sense of culture in a completely new way. Learn how embodiment makes it easier to tap into a flow state - that space of being 'in the zone', where time slows down and we move seamlessly with your environment, performing at the best of our abilities. Find out what your unique embodiment needs are and learn how to meet them with the support of world-class teachers and participants from around the world.

John Lloyd is a legendary comedy producer, who produced some of the biggest comedy hits of the 80s and 90s, including Not the Nine O Clock News, Spitting Image, and all four series of Blackadder. After a mid life crisis he realised that his success wasn't making him happy, and this led to a lengthy search for meaning and wisdom.  This conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller covered everything from comedy, to the nature of creativity, and the meaning of life.  They also discuss his relationship with his former flatmate and writing partner Douglas Adams, the creator of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.   00:00 Intro 05:17 Personal Life 11:59 Knowing Nothing 16:32 Religion & The Origin of Ideas 26:11 Quite Interesting 30:01 Depression & Focusing on the Other 38:34 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy & Douglas Adams 45:29 Religion & Secular Rituals 54:02 Science & Spirituality 01:02:44 Intelligence, Comedy & Wisdom  01:12:01 Paradigm Shift 01:20:17 Closing

This is a wide ranging conversation about conspiracy theories, the occult, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and more with the writer Daniel Pinchbeck.  Over the years Daniel has spent a lot of time investigating alternative narratives including conspiracy, and has been critical of Rebel Wisdom in the past for not taking these seriously enough.  Alongside this conversation we are publishing a long written piece about the subject of conspiracy theories, with special focus on the recent high profile interview of Maajid Nawaz on the Joe Rogan podcast: https://rebelwisdom.substack.com/p/conspiracy-criticism-and-the-case?s=w  We also talk about Daniel's high profile sex scandal and 'cancellation'.  You can find Daniel's writing on his Substack here: https://substack.com/profile/2728693-daniel-pinchbeck 

In one of the most important developments in the dynamic between big tech, free speech and media in many years, Elon Musk is buying Twitter for $44bn. Much of the commentary online has devolved into the predictable political shouting matches, and there has been very little engagement with the key questions that this brings up about the nature of moderation, of how to create healthy dialogue and what problems Elon will have to wrestle with in taking Twitter forward. Jim Rutt is the former head of the Santa Fe Institute, and has been involved with online communities since the birth of the internet. He believes that Elon has not fully wrestled with the problem of moderation that he will be taking on with Twitter, a view he explained in his new piece for Quillette, 'Musk & Moderation': https://quillette.com/2022/04/27/musk-and-moderation/  This is a sometimes robust debate and disagreement with Aaron Rabinowitz, a moral philosopher and host of the Embrace the Void podcast. Aaron has spent time wrestling with these same issues, in particular in a famous experiment he ran during the Trump election of 2016 when he created a completely unmoderated discussion group, called Monster island: https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2020/10/monster-island-free-speech-experiment/  Check out Jim's podcast, the Jim Rutt Show: https://www.jimruttshow.com/  And Aaron's podcast Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/podcasts 

"This is like The Matrix written from the point of view in which Agent Smith is the good guy, isn't it?" — Paul Kingsnorth Mary Harrington and Paul Kingsnorth are two of the most intriguing thinkers we’ve featured on Rebel Wisdom. Despite substantial overlap between Paul's concept of "the machine" and Mary's idea of "luxury Gnosticism", they have never been in dialogue with each other.  This was a fascinating and wide ranging conversation where Paul and Mary pushed back against the modernist fervor for transcending the limits of the natural world — they want to remind you that meatspace is not going away, and that it can be quite lovely! Mary and Paul are returning soon to the Rebel Wisdom Digital Campfire to talk more about this topic, asking the question, 'What Do We Do?'. To join that conversation become a RW member: https://www.patreon.com/rebelwisdom  Check out Paul's newsletter 'The Abbey of Misrule': https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/  And Mary's work for Unherd: https://unherd.com/author/mary-harrington/ 

This is a conversation that was originally posted on Meghan Daum's 'Unspeakable' podcast as 'Talking Sense Into Sensemakers'. David and Meghan talk about their shared history exploring the 'heterodox' space over the last years, and their impressions of what needs to come next. Unspeakable podcast: https://www.theunspeakablepodcast.com/ 

John Vervaeke is a cognitive scientist - a good friend of RW - and the creator of the cult hit - awakening from the meaning crisis series. A couple of weeks ago he travelled to the UK for a series of talks - and we took the opportunity to film this excellent dialogue with the philosopher and chess grandmaster Jonathan Rowson, the co-founder of Perspectiva. They cover a lot of ground, including John's passion for transformative speech - or dialogos, questions like the existence of God, and much more. We had our own brilliant event with John - which is listed as a member film - and you can see by signing up for our Substack newsletter: https://rebelwisdom.substack.com/p/an-evening-with-john-vervaeke-live-9cd?s=w  John's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/johnvervaeke?app=desktop  Jonathan's project, Perspectiva: https://systems-souls-society.com/ 

Alex Kaschuta is the host of the Subversive podcast, where she hosts controversial thinkers exploring the 'post-liberal moment'. She used to work in media in London, where she described herself then as a classic rationalist atheist and feminist. In the last few years she's moved back to Romania, become a mother, and has been exploring more traditionalist perspectives, in her life, and through the conversations on her podcast. In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller we cover her recent journey, and how it mirrors many others making the turn from rationalist to traditionalist, and what that says about the cultural time we find ourselves in. Alex's Subversive podcast: https://alexkaschuta.com/subversive-podcast

Chris Kavanagh is a cognitive anthropologist, and the co-host of the increasingly popular and influential podcast 'Decoding the Gurus'. This is a podcast that critiques many of the new breed of public intellectuals, including some who have been featured on Rebel Wisdom. Together with co-host, psychologist Matt Browne, they analyse the methods and messages of what they've described as 'secular gurus'. This is an important conversation, about the necessity of criticism, of what counts as good and bad faith, and how truth seeking gets warped. It's a controversial project for many, and in this conversation, Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller puts many of those criticisms to Chris directly.  Alongside this video, David Fuller has written a detailed and exhaustive analysis on Substack, highly recommended to read: https://rebelwisdom.substack.com/p/decoding-the-gurus-and-the-necessity?r=ye9pq&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Also referenced in the conversation are: An earlier recording with Chris 'Criticising the IDW': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByZCCmQVPdg Chris's presentation of the 'Gurometer' at The Stoa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EazLoBk9gA Peter Limberg's 'Memetic Tribes of Culture War 2.0' piece: https://medium.com/s/world-wide-wtf/memetic-tribes-and-culture-war-2-0-14705c43f6bb

The invasion of Ukraine by Russia is now over a month old. Konstantin Kisin is a comedian and the host of the Triggernometry show, he is also a Russian immigrant with family in both Ukraine and Russia. In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller he talks about his emotional journey over the course of the war, and how he has struggled with the way the conflict is portrayed in some areas close to home.

How can we relate authentically in a world that's tearing itself apart? What skills do we need to truly understand perspectives that differ from our own, and in turn, how can we invite people to consider other ways of thinking?  In this conversation with authentic relating superstar Sara Ness we go from the personal to the cultural, asking how do we have a different kind of conversation; one that isn't about winning, but about authentic connection that takes us somewhere new. We are launching a course with Sara starting on 5 April called 'The Art of Difficult Conversations', where we’ll give you tools to help you resolve some of the biggest communication questions of our time. For example: “How do I even start talking about my perspectives and ideas?” “Why does every conversation I have about current affairs turn into a fight?” “How can I relate with people who don’t make sense to me, and don't want to hear me out?” Check out more details on the course here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/courses/conversations

How will Russia's invasion of Ukraine shape the world for decades to come? Samo Burja is a geopolitical expert who has developed a reputation for bucking the conventional wisdom.  In this conversation he makes his predictions for the future, explaining how he believes we are misunderstanding Russia, how China is playing an economic long game, and the lessons from history in understanding what will happen next. Bismarck Analysis: https://www.bismarckanalysis.com/ Check out Rebel Wisdom's deep dive newsletter on Ukraine: https://rebelwisdom.substack.com/p/sensemaking-russia-and-ukraine-rebel?s=w

What are the deeper religious and philosophical currents informing Vladimir Putin and the Russian invasion of Ukraine?  Gary Lachman is the author of the recent book 'The Return of Holy Russia: Apocalyptic History, Mystical Awakening, and the Struggle for the Soul of the World'. In this conversation he argues that we have to understand the deep well of Russian philosophy and understand how Putin sees himself and Russia's historic mission.

Integral philosophy has been a big influence on many of Rebel Wisdom's guests over the years. So we brought together three key figures, meditator and mediator Diane Musho Hamilton, the host of the popular Daily Evolver podcast Jeff Salzman and the author of the book Developmental Politics, Steve McIntosh. They talked about how the integral map can help make sense of the responses to the pandemic, we discussed Jordan Peterson and the Intellectual Dark Web, and also responded to recent critiques of developmental thinking from the likes of Nora Bateson. This was a dialogue and Q&A with Rebel Wisdom members in our Digital Campfire.

All the arrayed forces of the sensemaking crisis, cancel culture, censorship and the ethical dilemmas of truth seeking seem now to be focused on one man, the podcaster and comedian Joe Rogan. These questions were already brought into a heightened focus by the pandemic, and the question of accurate medical information or misinformation taking on a life or death importance. It was into that context that Rogan stepped a few weeks ago with two interviews with highly controversial medical figures, Peter McCullough and Robert Malone.  The medical question is the key one, and taps into all of the key questions about the warping of the information landscape that Rebel Wisdom has been focused on for the last few years, and it's this aspect that we recorded a conversation with the doctor and podcaster Zubin Damania (ZDoggMD). This conversation was recorded before the recent "n-word" controversy erupted around Rogan.

A few months ago we put out a brilliant conversation about the deep mythology of the new Dune movie with the sci fi writer and podcaster Damien Walter - looking at what the stories we tell through science fiction tell us about who we are and where we're going. This is a dialogue with the host of the Symbolic World, Jonathan Pageau, about the religious and mythological symbolism and role of sci fi.  They cover a vast amount of territory, from The Matrix to Star Trek, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg - and end by predicting the next stories we'll likely see over the next years. https://thesymbolicworld.com/  https://damiengwalter.com/category/podcast/  To see all our written content, check out our new Substack, where you can also find our newly released free Sensemaking Companion: https://rebelwisdom.substack.com/  Our groundbreaking Sensemaking 101 course is starting again in February: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/courses/sensemaking-101-page 

As Russia looks poised to invade Ukraine, we speak to a friend of ours inside Ukraine. Vytas Bucianas is a developmental coach based in Kiev. In this conversation we discuss the recent history of Ukraine, what a conflict might mean for the region and the world, and whether the developmental map from disciplines like Integral theory can help illustrate what's going on.

Jerry Hyde is a shadow therapist with 25 years clinical experience, who rejects many of the conventionally held views of the mainstream psychotherapy world.  He works primarily with men, and has run men's groups for decades, which have years-long waiting lists to join.  He has just released a documentary based on the experience of leading men’s groups, called Make Me a Man, directed with partner Mia Hua: https://www.jerryhyde.co.uk/film We are releasing this as Rebel Wisdom restarts our weekend men's retreats after a two year break for Covid, check out the details here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/retreats

One of the biggest problems with talking about something as vast and impactful as the pandemic is to find the right level of analysis. In this epic piece, we look at the deeper religious and theological forces playing out below the surface of our day to day conflicts over topics like vaccines, authoritarianism and safety. We pull apart the hidden religiosity of "both sides" of the pandemic, that seems to be accelerating, even as the rapid spread of the Omicron variant brings us towards the pandemic endgame. It features interviews with the cognitive scientist John Vervaeke, Unherd writer Mary Harrington, the author Paul Kingsnorth, emergency doctor Rocky Jedick and many more. We have recently launched the Rebel Wisdom Substack for all our written content, and to host exclusive videos for members (just $5). The full length conversations with John, Mary & Rocky are available there for subscribers: https://substack.com/rebelwisdom  We are running our groundbreaking Sensemaking 101 course again in February, check the website for more details: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/courses/sensemaking-101-page  Pieces referenced in the film include: Joe Rogan with Peter McCullough: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0aZte37vtFTkYT7b0b04Qz?si=1f7ce5a6705b463e  Joe Rogan with Robert Malone: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3SCsueX2bZdbEzRtKOCEyT?si=5a8207578958440e  Breaking the Polarity Spell of the Covidiots and Covidians, Peter Limberg: https://thestoa.substack.com/p/breaking-the-polarity-spell-of-the  Vaccine purity has infected the West, Mary Harrington: https://unherd.com/2022/01/vaccine-purity-has-infected-the-west/  This Vaccine Moment, Paul Kingsnorth: https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/the-vaccine-moment-part-one  Paul Kingsnorth: Why I changed sides in the vaccine wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_uAwsVn10Y  Covid & the Sensemaking Crisis, BJ Campbell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IjW16FCpkA  Covid could still save Boris, Freddie Sayers: https://unherd.com/2022/01/covid-could-still-save-boris/  The Age of Breach, Alexander Beiner: https://medium.com/rebel-wisdom/the-age-of-breach-gamestop-wokeism-and-the-capitol-8e3ac46efaf9  Tortoise, Pfizer's War: https://www.tortoisemedia.com/audio/pfizers-war/  Robert Malone goes full anti-science on Joe Rogan's podcast, Debunk the Funk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjszVOfG_wo&t=1s  Robert Malone & Peter McCullough: A litany of untruths, Decoding the Gurus: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/robert-malone-peter-mccullough-a-litany-of-untruths  No, Ivermectin Did Not Help Japan Bring Down Covid-19 Coronavirus Delta Surge, Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/11/27/no-ivermectin-did-not-help-japan-bring-down-covid-19-coronavirus-delta-surge/?sh=717ea5842938  Ivermectin Didn’t Save Uttar Pradesh From Covid-19, Gideon M-K: https://gidmk.medium.com/ivermectin-didnt-save-uttar-pradesh-from-covid-19-17684f49d8b3  Walking the Talk on Free Speech? With Triggernometry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdGUp0y-bzc&t=1472s    Episode Overview:  00:00:00 Intro 00:00:50 The return of religion and the 'post secular' 00:04:55 The Covid Thesis vs Covid Antithesis 00:05:43 The Religiosity of the Thesis Narrative 00:08:39 The Religiosity of the Antithesis Narrative 00:14:25 Covid Synthesis? 00:16:47 What makes us intelligent leads to self-deception 00:20:24 We're all biased  00:24:48 Mary Harrington, vaccine purity codes & theology 00:33:44 The scapegoat dynamic 00:37:45 Religion, Egregores & 'Mass Formation' 00:44:53 John Vervaeke, suspicion is eating itself 00:48:45 Dialogos & the 'hermeneutics of beauty' 00:56:50 'Pfizer are shitbags' 00:58:53 Responsible heterodoxy vs conspiracy thinking 01:01:25 Making sense of Robert Malone's claims 01:10:44 An ER doctor evaluates Robert Malone, Rocky Jedick MD 01:20:00 Understanding the red flags 01:27:14 Our broken information landscape 01:32:07 Understanding motivation vs ad hominem 01:35:42 Epistemic humility & holding perspectives 01:43:44 The 'uncanny valley' of truth seeking 01:51:00 The incentive landscape for the antithesis, Paul Kingsnorth 01:57:49 The ethics of alternative media 02:06:23 Truth as a sacred value

John McWhorter is one of America's most incisive, outspoken heterodox commentators on race. His latest book, 'Woke Racism', is a full frontal attack on what he considers to be a new hidden racism, coming from the left. In Woke Racism, McWhorter outlines the workings of what he believes is a new religion, from the original sin of “white privilege” and the weaponization of cancel culture to ban heretics, to the evangelical fervor of the “woke mob.” He shows how this religion that claims to “dismantle racist structures” is actually harming his fellow Black Americans by infantilizing Black people, setting Black students up for failure, and passing policies that disproportionately damage Black communities. The new religion might be called “antiracism,” but it features a racial essentialism that’s barely distinguishable from racist arguments of the past. This was a conversation in Rebel Wisdom's Digital Campfire, to join conversations like this, sign up as a Rebel Wisdom member: https://www.patreon.com/rebelwisdom

Why does our response to Covid seem perfectly calibrated to create maximum division and disagreement? How has it made the problems of sensemaking so much worse and dragged us all into it? BJ Campbell is the creator of the Handwaving Freakoutery blog, focused on the crisis of finding truth, or Sensemaking. In this conversation with David Fuller he explains his perspective on how the nature of social media has created hive minds, or 'Egregores' that are competing for space in the attention economy. Rebel Wisdom is running our groundbreaking Sensemaking 101 course again in February 2022, with practices and techniques for better sensemaking, and live sessions from faculty including John Vervaeke, Diane Musho Hamilton, Sara Ness & Daniel Schmachtenberger. See more here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/courses/sensemaking-101-page

Breathwork and Embodiment has always been hugely important to many of the practices we talk about on Rebel Wisdom. This is a conversation with breathworker Prema McKeever about the history of embodiment and breath practices, and how they are becoming ever more popular. We are running a course with Prema beginning in January 2022, it will be five deep sessions around different holding patterns and character structures. To find out more about it and to sign up, check out: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/courses/breathwork

What are we getting wrong with Covid, and what does it mean to adapt to it becoming an endemic disease? William Eden is a biotech and healthcare expert who has been paying close attention to the progress of the pandemic from many different angles. He recently posted a viral Twitter thread on the topic: https://twitter.com/WilliamAEden/status/1470271294398558210 In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller they cover how the pandemic became politicised, how the authorities have been slow to adapt, and how the mandates are likely to backfire. To join conversations and practice sessions with some of the world's top facilitators, check out becoming a Rebel Wisdom member: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/campfire-events We're running our groundbreaking course in better Sensemaking, with guest faculty including John Vervaeke, Sara Ness, Diane Musho Hamilton and Daniel Schmachtenberger, starting in February 2022, find out more and join here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/courses/sensemaking-101-page We've also just created a new self-study course called Essential Philosophy for Modern Life with Jules Evans. This looks at hot topics like Cancel Culture & Free Speech, or Identity, through a lens of the great philosophers of the past, find out more here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/courses/essential-philosophy-for-modern-life

Happy Christmas! The Sensemaking Companion introduction film is listed on our new home on Substack: https://rebelwisdom.substack.com/p/our-christmas-gift-to-you-the-sensemaking Register your email address to be sent the full version when it's live. We're now hosting all our exclusive member content there, and there's a library of around 100 films - including our brilliant recent conversation with John McWhorter - and also talks with people like Iain McGilchrist, John Vervaeke, Ayishat Akanbi, Nora Bateson, Jamie Wheal - all the sessions from our festivals, unseen behind the scenes material with Jordan Peterson and more. If you are already a member - we've registered you already and given you access, so don't worry. If you'd like to join us however - come and check it out.

Meghan Daum is a writer and journalist, and host of the Unspeakable podcast. After a long time in the heart of the legacy media, she was becoming increasingly unhappy with the groupthink and narrow perspectives. After discovering what later became known as the Intellectual Dark Web, she wrote an article that went viral called Nuance, a Love Story: https://gen.medium.com/nuance-a-love-story-ae6a14991059 In this conversation with David Fuller they discuss which conversations are still difficult to have in the mainstream, where the concept of the IDW failed, and more.

Can psychedelics change culture? In this new documentary, Alexander Beiner speaks with leaders in the field including Robin Carhart-Harris, Dennis McKenna, Bia Labate, Rick Doblin, Jamie Wheal and Kat Conour to find out if the original vision of the psychedelic counterculture - that they can radically transform society - is still alive. In the age of psychedelic capitalism, with pharma and wellness companies driving the narrative, this piece explores what it would take for an experience of the sacred to overcome market forces and change our cultural operating system. An essay accompanies this film. Read 'The Psychedelic Trojan Horse' on our Substack: https://rebelwisdom.substack.com/p/the-psychedelic-trojan-horse?r=ye9pq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Join us for a live with Jamie Wheal and other guests in the film by become a Rebel Wisdom Member on www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans Earlybird tickets for our next Sensemaking 101 online course are now available - read more on www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/sensemaking101

Web3 is the collective name for the latest wave of innovation online. Touted as much more decentralised, democratic and creative than the current web ecosystem, for its evangelists it's our best hope to innovate our way out of many our most pressing societal problems. Jordan Hall is a tech entrepreneur and Deep Code analyst, who has been deeply involved in what is now being called Web1, the early garage innovators who created the early internet, and also Web2, when cyberspace was colonised by the the new monoliths like Google, Facebook and Apple. He's deeply invested in the success of Web3. In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom, Jordan discusses the possible trajectory of Web3, how well developed the space is, and also the problems that are becoming ever more apparent. In particular how the early hopes that Web3 might be able to find tech solutions to the eternal problems of human beings coordinating together, seem to be failing. We will be hosting an open discussion on Web3 and the questions raised by this conversation on Tuesday December 21st, this will be open to all, register here to take part: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sc-mpqj4qE9XG61uH1sGi5KBUeICxwGcz

Jamie Bartlett is a writer and journalist who's been investigating our complex relationship with technology for years, through books like People vs Tech, and recently through the hit podcast the Missing Crypto Queen. In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller he talked about how technology was starting to play an almost religious role in our lives, how the rise of tech was a fundamental challenge to democracy, and about his famous run in with Alex Jones. Missing Cryptoqueen podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07nkd84/episodes/downloads To join conversations in our Digital Campfire check out our upcoming events and membership options here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/campfire-events

Paul Kingsnorth is one of the most interesting voices wrestling with the deepest questions of modernity, religion and the spiritual void in western culture. A former pagan - and long time environmentalist - a couple of years ago he had a completely unexpected conversion to Christianity, which he outlined in his fascinating piece The Cross and the Machine: https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/06/the-cross-and-the-machine In this conversation in Rebel Wisdom's Digital Campfire we discussed his journey, and reflected on the deep Christian story that we're all immersed in in the west - and if it's even possible to move outside it? To join conversations like this, check out our membership options: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans Check out Paul's newsletter, The Abbey of Misrule: https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/ 

Why are we still obsessed with The Beatles, and is it healthy? Fifty years after they broke up, it seems that the mark they made on our culture has not faded. Does this demonstrate the timeless genius of the band, or is it a sign of a culture that is stuck? A few days ago saw the release of an eight hour fly-on-the-wall documentary 'Get Back', made by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson. It shows some of their last sessions as they put together the album 'Let it Be', and culminated in their famous rooftop concert. Erik Davis is the foremost historian of the counterculture, and Anderson Todd works in the Wisdom and Consciousness Lab at Toronto University. In this epic conversational riff they examine what was captured in The Beatles' music and why it resonates today. This conversation was recorded in the Rebel Wisdom Digital Campfire. To join conversations like this check out our upcoming events: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/campfire-events Check out Erik's newsletter, 'The Burning Shore' https://techgnosis.com/discover-burning-shore/

Are the UK and US about to legalise magic mushrooms? A number of cities and states in the US have decriminalised psychedelics, and recent headlines in the UK have reported that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is thinking of rescheduling psilocybin. But 50 years into the war on drugs, is widespread legalisation a real possibility? In this film Alexander Beiner speaks with three experts to find out. Professor David Nutt heads up Drug Science, the UK’s leading independent body on drugs. Crispin Blunt is a British Member of Parliament campaigning to reschedule psilocybin. Tom Eckert co-led the campaign to successfully legalise psilocybin therapy in Oregon, providing a model for how legalisation campaigns of the might look. Become a Rebel Wisdom member to join practice sessions, live Q&A's and more on www.patreon.com/rebelwisdom Learn more about Drug Science on drugscience.org.uk Find out more about the Conservative Drug Policy Reform Group on https://www.cdprg.co.uk/

Is reality created in our minds, or are the things you can touch and feel all that's real? Philosopher Bernardo Kastrup holds doctorates in both philosophy and computer science, and has made a name for himself by arguing for metaphysical idealism, the idea that reality is essentially a mental phenomenon. In this Showcase he explains why he's come to this conclusion, and why this age-old debate in philosophy can help us make sense of everything from how we practice science to how we navigate the meaning crisis. Check out Bernardo's work on https://www.bernardokastrup.com/ Follow him on Twitter @bernardokastrup Participate in conversations like this in our Digital Campfire by becoming a Rebel Wisdom member on https://www.patreon.com/rebelwisdom

In ‘The Matter with Things’, Iain McGilchrist tackles the big questions: Who are we? What is the world? How can we understand consciousness, matter, space and time? What happens if we neglect the sacred and divine? He argues that we have become enslaved to an account of things dominated by a partial view dominated by the brain’s left hemisphere, one that blinds us to an awe-inspiring reality that is all around us, had we but eyes to see it. He suggests that in order to understand ourselves and the world we need science and intuition, reason and imagination, not just one or two. When we do, we tap into an understanding that is both profound and beautiful, in line with the deepest traditions of human wisdom. Dr. Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, philosopher and literary scholar. He is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and of the Royal Society of Arts, as well as a former Clinical Director of the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital, London. With a gift for synthesising neuroscience, culture and philosophy, his thought has provided essential frames for making sense of the times we live in and proved particularly influential on Rebel Wisdom.

This is a short podcast to announce an upcoming film project with John Vervaeke, and an opportunity to contribute ideas and skills to help make it happen. The aim of the film is primarily to answer the question 'Where do you start?' when encountering John's work, what do you send to someone as an introduction? We are particularly interested to hear from skilled animators, documentary producers or other TV folk. Other contributions on how to tell the story also welcome - email: [email protected]

The question of where Covid-19 came from has become one of the most contentious and heated topics. Even the US intelligence community is split between those who believe it most likely emerged naturally from the wild and those who believe it came from a lab, the Wuhan Institute of Virology. This is a conversation about where the evidence points between Yuri Deigin of the DRASTIC collective that has been researching the lab, and Stuart Neil, a virology professor at Kings College in the UK. There is a fair amount of technical detail in this conversation, which is being released unedited. To help the more casual viewer we have listed relevant timecodes to the more accessible parts of the dialogue. 03:30 - How has this debate been going so far? 05:14 - Yuri, how confident are you that it's a lab leak? 08:33 - Stuart, how confident are you that it's Zoonosis? 10:57 - Yuri, what are the key issues? 19:15 - Is the Furin Cleavage Site the 'smoking gun'? 27:07 - Stuart, what are the key issues for you? 27:23 - "No clear evidence of manipulation" 38:42 - "The design of the virus is implausible from an engineering perspective" 39:54 - Was the virus optimised for human transmission? 45:28 - Gain of Function experiments 51:15 - Is the DARPA grant a recipe for SARS-CoV-2? 54:26 - Are there any theories that can be discounted, eg: bioweapon? 01:00:14 - How much effort and manpower would it take to engineer? 01:04:30 - How would you engineer it? 01:10:42 - What do you think is the most likely scenario, Yuri? 01:13:10 - The livestock trade in China 01:15:19 - Why did the virus show up in Wuhan? 01:17:32 - What about the secrecy & cover up in China? 01:23:18 - The Mojiang mine & Drastic 01:27:38 - What about the virus RaTG13? 01:32:03 - How viruses are investigated in the lab 01:39:10 - What are the key questions that need to be resolved? 01:42:36 - Will we ever know the answer? 01:46:52 - Has anyone changed their mind?

What can Socrates teach us about identity politics? Can Mary Wollstonecraft give us a fresh take on free speech in the age of big tech? What would Carl Jung make of the strange union of the new age and far right known as ‘Conspirituality’?   This video introduces our latest course, led by award-winning public philosopher Jules Evans, looks at the big philosophical ideas and thinkers behind some of the noisiest issues of the day. With so much reaction and outrage in public debate, it can be difficult to step back and see the philosophical positions – the deep code – underlying these clashing currents. When we do, we can uncover essential insights that help us thrive in the times we live in.   https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/courses/essential-philosophy-for-modern-life   Essential Philosophy for Modern Life will take you on a journey of understanding the key philosophical ideas and arguments underlying today’s disputes. We will unpack these ideas in a critical and non-dogmatic way, introducing you to some of the leading thinkers and philosophies that can help you see where people are coming from, where your own philosophical sympathies might lie, and why there are always two sides to every argument.

Mark 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 Fiction Podcast. The conversation explores just how influential science fiction has been on Silicon Valley, what sci-fi myths can tell us about ourselves, and what we can learn from our most out there visions of utopia and dystopia. Join conversations like these in the Digital Campfire by becoming a member on www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans Check out our first film with Damien, 'Dune & The Deeper Meaning of Sci-Fi' here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpLAcewRBSE Check out Damien's work on https://damiengwalter.com/

Will 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 check out our membership options here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans   Will's website: https://willstorr.com/

The 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

Liv 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 Moloch can help us understand existential risk and zero-sum games. Check out Liv's YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/LivBoeree and on Twitter @Liv_Boeree Watch 'Moloch: The Beauty Wars' on https://youtu.be/fifVuhgvQQ8 Scott Alexander's essay Meditations on Moloch: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/  

Dave 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/  

The 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 how sci fi reworks the timeless stories of our core mythologies, reworking spiritual and religious truths for new secular audiences. We will be hosting a conversation on Sci Fi and more with Damien in our Digital Campfire on Monday 1st November, so if you'd like to join that, sign up as a Rebel Wisdom member: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans  

Dennis 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, indigenous reciprocity, the origins of ayahuasca and much more. Check out the McKenna Academy here: https://mckenna.academy/ Learn more about The International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research, and Service (ICEERS) on iceers.org

Controversies 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 sociopathic content, part of an obsessive and ill-conceived attempt to extract kernels of meaning and humanity from a landscape of endless raging dumpster fires." Check out Katie's podcast Blocked & Reported: https://www.blockedandreported.org/ Check out Rebel Wisdom memberships here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans 

The 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 nuanced and interesting. Zubin Damania is a naturally heterodox thinker and has become one of the breakout stars of the pandemic. Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller caught up with Zubin to chat through what happened and what to make of this rift between heterodox and mainstream. To join future conversations, consider becoming a Rebel Wisdom member: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

Investigative 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 needs to come to terms with its past if it is to move on.

This 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 hosting guests from very different backgrounds. This film contains clips from Dave Rubin's Battle of Ideas III by Timbah on Toast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2LOv...

Rafia 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-facilitator Turiya Hanover are shortly starting a new online course covering many of the topics discussed in this film, called Dimensions of Being. To see some free video material, check it out here: https://dimensions-of-being.teachable...

Rebel 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 publicly about what he observed, and raising the alarm.   This is released at the same time as our final installment in the investigation into the vaccine claims on the Dark Horse podcast: https://youtu.be/pyhWkiG7wAU   This is part of Rebel Wisdom's series of films on this topic. Find the others on our YouTube homepage.

For 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 launches a deep dive into the state of Sensemaking in 2021.   Rebel Wisdom is running a major free online festival 'The State of Sensemaking' on September 25 & 26, where we will be hosting conversations to try to make sense of some of the most difficult cultural topics: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/state-of-se...   This film tells the journey of Rebel Wisdom so far, and contains clips from: 'The War on Sensemaking', Daniel Schmachtenberger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lqao...   'Making Sense of Sensemaking', Jordan Hall, Jamie Wheal & Daniel Schmachtenberger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Es_W...   'Glitch in the Matrix, Jordan Peterson, the Mainstream Media and the Intellectual Dark Web': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trhTb...   'Glitch in the Matrix II, The Origin of the Intellectual Dark Web', Eric Weinstein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKeMI...   'The Intellectual Dark Web, An Integral Conversation?', Ken Wilber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2XK8...   'Jordan Peterson and the Meaning Crisis', John Vervaeke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6RFS...   'The Legacy of Integral', Jamie Wheal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4krRS...   'The Age of Breach', Alexander Beiner: https://medium.com/rebel-wisdom/the-a...   We are also running our groundbreaking Sensemaking course again in October, check out the details here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/courses/sen...

Over 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 looking at the context and the sensemaking challenges involved: https://areomagazine.com/2021/08/12/o...   We have also released a longer, exhaustive investigation of the evidence on our Rebel Wisdom Medium page: https://medium.com/rebel-wisdom/on-va...   And an interview with Iona Italia, the editor of Areo magazine, about the editorial process and the difficulty of balancing public and private when criticising friends: https://youtu.be/94jwkGduDls   We will be hosting a Q&A dialogue about the investigation in our Digital Campfire on Wednesday 18th August. Please come along if you are a Rebel Wisdom member, or consider joining (Explorers & Sensemakers invited): https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans   We have also created a simple form for non members to submit questions if you wish, and we will address as many as possible during the Q&A: https://forms.gle/zr2SgyNGrMDqjiLr8   We are running our highly regarded Sensemaking course again in October, check it out here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/courses/sen...   Bret & Heather's Substack article: https://naturalselections.substack.co...   Films referred to in this piece: 'War on Sensemaking' with Daniel Schmachtenberger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lqao... 'Deep Code' with Jordan Hall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j3cC... 'The Hidden Epidemic' with Robert Whitaker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQvN5... Eric Weinstein: Vaccines, Ivermectin & Dark Horse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d8xL...

What 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 leadership in dealing with the pandemic. Films mentioned in this episode: Eric Weinstein, Glitch in the Matrix 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKeMIWVOnbo&t=4s Sam Harris, A Contagion of Bad Ideas: https://samharris.org/subscriber-extras/256-contagion-bad-ideas/ To join behind the scenes coversations about these topics in Rebel Wisdom's Digital Campfire, check out the membership options here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

In 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 - creating echo chambers and filter bubbles, and broken sensemaking.  In this film we hear from three voices, Tess Lawrie, one of the most outspoken advocates for Ivermectin, Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, an epidemiologist and data nerd from Australia who has been examining the data, and Graham Walker, an ER doctor from San Francisco who has also been deep in the science and competing claims around Ivermectin.  Rebel Wisdom has prepared a full background briefing document on Ivermectin here to go alongside this film:  We will be hosting a conversation around this topic, and attempting to make sense of it live in our digital campfire on Tuesday 27th July, to join us, sign up here for as little as $10 per month: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

If 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 research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore how incorporating WEIRD psychology into our sensemaking can give us a new lens on our own psychology, history and culture. Check out The Weirdest People in the World here: https://www.amazon.com/WEIRDest-People-World-Psychologically-Particularly/dp/0374173222 Check out 'Indigenous Narcissism' by Alexander Beiner which links Henrich's work to some of the topics we've explored on the channel: https://medium.com/rebel-wisdom/indigenous-narcissism-social-media-belonging-weirdness-6063ac6f9aa Join conversations like this on the Rebel Wisdom Campfire by becoming a member here: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

There 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 and why the different narratives around these issues don't seem to come into contact with each other.   It was a dialogue held in the Rebel Wisdom Digital Campfire including Max Borders, the executive director of Social Evolution, a non-profit startup dedicated to liberating people and solving social problems through innovation, and Joshua Zader, an online entrepreneur with a background in clinical psychology and a passion for circling.

Zubin 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 call check out membership options here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans Check out Zubin's website here: https://zdoggmd.com/

What 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, sovereignty and discernment.   Sensemaking 101 has an average rating of 90% from over a thousand alumni. Our next course starts on July 8 - read more and book your place on www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/sensemaking101  If you aren't able to afford the course right now, we offer discounted scholarship places. You can apply on https://forms.gle/qf646jvNxXfyrfK98

In 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 information landscape by powerful actors, and the value of decentralised collective intelligence as an alternative sensemaking force.     In this film, we hear from some of the main players, and try to tell the story so far. This is a hugely complex story, which we have been researching for several months.   We have put together a comprehensive briefing document alongside our latest newsletter, to receive it, check this link: https://mailchi.mp/rebelwisdom.co.uk/...

Zak 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 is also a co-founder of the Consilience Project with Daniel Schmachtenberger: https://consilienceproject.org/   To join conversations like this, consider becoming a Rebel Wisdom member: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

Jonathan 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 through the experience with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller, the creator of multiple films about the Peterson phenomenon. Full interview with Peterson at the RSA is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD-VC...   Rebel Wisdom is hosting a Q&A on this film with Jonathan in our Digital Campfire on Thursday 10th June, to join, become a member: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans   Check out Jonathan's project Perspectiva: https://systems-souls-society.com/

In 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 to dying, and just how fundamental these attitudes are to our perception.   Learn more about Stephen's work on https://orphanwisdom.com/   Attend Wisdom Gym events like this by becoming a Rebel Wisdom member. Check out what we have coming up on https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/campfir...

As 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.oxfordsu.org/societies/ox...   See our other films about psychedelic capitalism below: The Rise of Psychedelic Capitalism: https://youtu.be/uXoDOGkmZsI   Endgame for the Psychedelic Renaissance? with Jamie Wheal: https://youtu.be/EOXJOZK1ZNQ   Participate in events with psychedelic leaders like Dennis McKenna in our Digital Campfire. See what's coming up on: www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/events

Over 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 here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/campfire-events Dark Horse podcast is here: https://www.youtube.com/BretWeinsteinDarkHorse

What 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' scam was used to fund it. Brian is threatening to sue anyone who makes that claim, by the way: https://medium.com/rebel-wisdom/did-brian-rose-use-the-money-he-scammed-from-his-followers-to-run-for-mayor-bb317cf68ddb Check out the interview where Nic Gabriel broke his silence on Brian Rose & London Real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hOQCUj3wyY&t=2267s Nic's 'Liberation Mentor' podcast: https://www.liberationmentor.com/ Coffeezilla's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFQMnBA3CS502aghlcr0_aw And check out the upcoming conversations in the Digital Campfire here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/campfire-events

Alan 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 eight sessions a month, and ask questions, starts from $10 per month. Check upcoming events here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/campfire-ev...   A pdf of The Book is available here: https://holybooks-lichtenbergpress.ne...

What 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 players', and how hollow and dysfunctional many of our systems have become. In this wide-ranging and inspiring conversation, Samo explains what turns live players into dead ones, the underlying psychology and dynamics at play, and how we might go about changing that process. Rebel Wisdom is shortly to begin a new online journey, called Becoming a Live Player, led by David Fuller and Peter Limberg of The Stoa. We will explore the landscape together, and learn some of the most effective skills, practices and psychotechnologies from as many different sources (memetic tribes) as possible: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/courses/liv...​ This conversation was recorded in the Rebel Wisdom Digital Campfire. To see what sessions and discussions are coming up, check here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/campfire-ev...​ Samo Burja, 'About Me': "There has never been an immortal society. No matter how technologically advanced our own society is, it is unlikely to be an exception. To achieve a positive future that defies these odds, we must understand the hidden forces that shape society. In 2017, I founded Bismarck Analysis, a consulting firm that investigates the political and institutional landscape of society. I’m a Research Fellow at the Long Now Foundation where I study how institutions can endure for centuries and millennia. I’m also Senior Research Fellow in Political Science at the Foresight Institute where I advise how institutions can shape the future of technology."

Mary 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 women, meaning that in order to remain true to the central task of feminism - advocating for women's political interests - feminists must turn against the theology of progress."   To join live and take part in conversations like this one, in Rebel Wisdom's Digital Campfire, check out the upcoming sessions here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/campfire-ev...​   Mary is a writer and journalist. After graduating from Oxford University in 2002 with a first-class degree in English Literature, she was an early adopter of millennial precarity, via a twenties spent experimenting with gig economy work, intentional communities, gender nonconformity and unconventional relationship forms.   Along the way she discovered digital culture and web 2.0, co-founding the digital learning marketplace ‘School of Everything’; working as a researcher with the New York-based digital culture think tank ‘The Institute for the Future of the Book’; and curating cult art events.   After the crash of 2008 she worked in marketing while training as a psychotherapist, before discovering marriage, motherhood and small town life - along with an audience as a writer via her political blog. Her writing has been published by the New Statesman, The Spectator and Mail on Sunday, and she is a contributing editor at the influential online magazine UnHerd.

In 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, Douglas Rushkoff, Diane Musho Hamilton, Tyson Yunkaporta, Daniel Schmachtenberger and many more. You can get an invite through Flow Genome Project by buying the book: https://www.recapturetherapture.com/launch

Brian 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 one. This is a conversation between Coffeezilla, the expert in dodgy online gurus who has been tracking Brian for over a year, and Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller. David has just published an article for Unherd on this topic: https://unherd.com/2021/04/could-bria...​ Catch up on previous films covering the shameless Mr Rose here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/films/34-fi...​ And check out Coffeezilla's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFQM...​ Rebel Wisdom has just relaunched our Digital Campfire, where you can join many of our interviews and conversations: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/campfire-ev...​ Also, check out the Reddit thread 'That Bus Wanker' for more: https://www.reddit.com/r/gammasecretk...

Integral 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 Digital Campfire member platform, with a host of upcoming films. To take part in these conversations check out the member options: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans​ The Integral Stage is here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaA4...

Recently, 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 change it, finding creative ways to jam it up, or playing an entirely new game. You can watch the first part of this conversation 'Endgame for the Psychedelic Renaissance?' here: https://youtu.be/EOXJOZK1ZNQ​ Jamie Wheal's new book, 'Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost Its Mind' comes out on April 27th: https://www.amazon.com/Recapture-Rapt...​ Become a Rebel Wisdom member to participate in live Q&A calls with guests like Jamie Wheal. More info on https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

Tensions 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 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? Rebel Wisdom is doing an increasing number of events on Clubhouse, search for our newly created club to join in. To join our digital campfire, check out our plans here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans​ This was a Rebel Wisdom talk at The Stoa: https://www.thestoa.ca/

What 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  

At 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 crisis of journalism, and tensions with the tech sector. The New Yorker wrote a more well-received piece on SSC here: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/ann...

Dr 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 available for Rebel Wisdom Sensemakers. To join these sessions, consider becoming a member: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans​   Our next Wisdom Gym guest is Thomas Hübl on Wednesday, 24 February at 8pm GMT. Read more about what's happening in the Rebel Wisdom community on https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans/commu...

What 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

In 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 Evans. We will have a Sensemaker's Q&A on this topic on Wednesday 20th January at 8pm UK, to join, check out memberships: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

In 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 narratives are clashing, and the fracture of the information landscape.   Rebel Wisdom's acclaimed course in understanding the world better, Sensemaking 101, is starting again in February, find out more here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/courses Links to news stories and podcasts discussed in the film: Jordan Hall, Situational Assessment 2017: Trump Edition: https://medium.com/deep-code/situatio...  Bellingcat, The Making of QAnon: A Crowdsourced Conspiracy: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/ameri...  Reply All, Country of Liars (the origins of Q Anon): https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-a...  Peter Pomerantsev, Propaganda and the War Against Reality (lecture): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgO_5...  The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, by Lawrence Wright: https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/lawr...  QAnon Woke Up the Real Deep State, Arc Digital: https://arcdigital.media/qanon-woke-u...  Why I’m so angry, John Jalsevac (A Conservative calls out his own side): https://johnjalsevac.com/2021/01/12/w...

Psychedelics 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 culture and medicine.   Includes interviews with Dr. Rosalind Watts (clinical lead of Imperial College's groundbreaking psilocybin for depression study), Erik Davis (author of Techgnosis and High Weirdness), Jamie Wheal (author of Stealing Fire), Kat Conour of the Auryn Project, Bill Linton (CEO of The Usona Institute) and Shipibo shaman Jose Lopez Sanchez among others.   Are we seeing the birth of a new era in mental health care, or late capitalism’s sneakiest cash grab yet? Turn on and tune in to find out.   We'll be hosting a live Q&A in our community with some guests from this film on Wednesday, 13 Jan. Find out more about membership on www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans   Rebel Wisdom's Sensemaking 101 course launches again on 4 February, check it out here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/courses  

In 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' and has recently popularised the term 'Conspirituality' to explain the strange union of new age and far right ideas in 2020. Find him on https://www.philosophyforlife.org/   Jonathan Pageau is the host of 'The Symbolic World', a popular YouTube channel in which he explores symbolism in religion, art as well as in general and popular culture. You can find him on https://www.youtube.com/c/JonathanPageau   Rebel Wisdom's Sensemaking course launches again in February, check it out here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/courses

Chloe 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://theoryofenchantment.com/home-1 Chloe's Twitter: https://twitter.com/cvaldary David's Twitter: https://twitter.com/fullydavid Rebel Wisdom's Sensemaking course launches again in February, check it out here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/courses

The 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 Thursday 10th December, they will be running an exclusive four session course for Rebel Wisdom members - to join this, and many other sessions, check: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

Why 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 (Sensemaking Series): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkKnO...   WTF is Going On Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkKnO...   Glitch in the Matrix 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKeMI...   Dave Rubin Interview: https://youtu.be/I9mCNoJLnKQ   If you enjoy Rebel Wisdom's content, and want to join the community, go here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

Spiritual 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 of spiritual emergency and how to navigate in altered states.

Jamie 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

In the wake of the US election, the political divisions are as deep as ever. How can we hope to build dialogue across those divides?   John Wood Jr is the ambassador for Braver Angels, a grassroots organisation that tries to mediate between the different warring tribes.   What techniques work, and what kind of narratives might unite us?   Check our Rebel Wisdom's upcoming sessions, and consider becoming a member: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans   John Wood, Jr. is a former nominee for congress whose written work has been featured in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Examiner and Quillette Magazine. A noted speaker on the subject of political and racial reconciliation, Wood is director of public outreach and national ambassador for Braver Angels. He lives in South Los Angeles with his wife and three children.   Braver Angels: https://braverangels.org/

Charles Eisenstein is one of the world's most interesting thinkers on the nexus between systems change, spirituality and transformation.   The author of books including 'The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible', he was the star of a recent Rebel Wisdom film 'An Epidemic of Control': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK8C_...   This was a Q&A for Rebel Wisdom Sensemakers. To join future sessions, consider becoming a member: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

Paul VanderKlay recently released a film 'Why is YouTube Boring?' that sparked a discussion about the collapse of narrative.   In this conversation Paul and David trace their background with Jordan Peterson and the Intellectual Dark Web, and ask where the novelty and interest went.   To take part in discussions like this, become a Rebel Wisdom member: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans   Paul's film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sRpX...

Why is so much Personal Growth advice ineffective and cringeworthy? Mark Manson is a hugely popular blogger and bestselling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything is F*cked, a Book About Hope.   In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller he talks about how you can't wish yourself into a better life, the value of hardship and suffering, and his fascinating background in the world of pickup artistry, and what happened to that subculture.   Check out Mark's weekly newsletter 'Mindf*ck Mondays', and his blog here: https://markmanson.net/   Rebel Wisdom has just relaunched our community platform, with many different membership options, to join the conversation, check here: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

John Vervaeke and Jonathan Pageau are two of the most fascinating thinkers engaged in the deepest questions of meaning, religion and culture.   In this dialogue and Q&A, they cover topics like the future of Christianity, symbology & culture, and the meaning of gnosticism.   To join future Q&As, consider becoming a Rebel Wisdom member: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans   Jonathan Pageau is an expert on religious symbolism, which he discusses on his channel The Symbolic World: https://www.youtube.com/user/pageaujo...   John Vervaeke is a professor of psychology and cognitive science at Toronto University, and the creator of the hit YouTube series, Awakening From the Meaning Crisis: https://www.youtube.com/user/johnverv...

In April, Rebel Wisdom ran a series of investigations into London Real's suspicious 'Digital Freedom Platform' fundraiser. Now the head of London Real, Brian Rose, has announced that he's running for Mayor of London. Meanwhile he's been deleting a load of his old videos and much more. What does the story of Brian Rose say about our society? What does it have in common with cult dynamics? And what is the 'sociopathic niche'? Original Investigation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDM1w... This film has clips from: The Paradox of the Times, Jordan Hall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SmGM... How to spot a cult, Jamie Wheal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9_Fc... Converting Moloch from Sith to Jedi w/ Daniel Schmachtenberger (The Stoa): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKvVd... Brian Rose is Running for Mayor - I PREDICTED THIS!? (Coffeezilla): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9iwY... The King of Free Speech CENSORED Me! (Coffeezilla): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAX1e...

The increasing inability to make sense of the world is an existential problem, what might we be able to do to fix it?   The original War on Sensemaking film was a viral hit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lqao...   In the time since then Daniel Schmachtenberger has been thinking hard about how deep the problem goes and what is needed to fix it.   This film outlines how essential sensemaking is to a functioning society, and introduces a new project that is designed to fix it, the Consilience Project. See the very end of the film for more on that, and to offer help, go to: https://airtable.com/shrVKehFhMKxEpWU1   Daniel will be doing a live Q&A about this film for Rebel Wisdom members, check out the different membership options here: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans   To learn more of the skills we talk about in these films, the next cohort of our online course, Sensemaking 101, begins in a week's time: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/courses

Ayishat Akanbi is one of the freshest voices inquiring into the most difficult topics of race and identity. Diane Musho Hamilton has been wrestling with the same topics for decades as a Zen priest and mediator.   In this special conversation for the Rebel Wisdom Community they discuss each others' work and try to find a way through the conflict of the times.   This was a special discussion as part of Rebel Wisdom's regular Sensemaking Q&As, to join live, consider becoming a RW member: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

What is 'Unity 2020'? is it possible to have an alternative to Trump or Biden? Is it a "Game B" project? And most importantly, could it possibly work? Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller talks to Bret Weinstein.   We are about to run our Sensemaking 101 course for the third time, check it out and see what all the fuss is about: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/courses   To get access to more exclusive content and join the Rebel Wisdom community, become a Rebel Wisdom member: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans   We've also just launched the Rebel Wisdom store! Buy T Shirts and more on https://shop.rebelwisdom.co.uk

This talk was given at the Rebel Wisdom Festival in late May 2020.   A spiritual emergency is a period of intense and extended disturbance to a person’s ordinary sense of self and reality, which can involve psychotic-like symptoms such as mania, ego-dissolution, a heightened sense of meaning, hallucinations and a confusion of inner and outer worlds.   These experiences can be treated as symptoms of chronic brain disorders requiring psychotropic medication. However, they are better understood as attempts by the psyche to seek greater wholeness.If properly handled, they can be transitions to greater maturity, flourishing and wisdom.   Jules Evans is a philosopher and author, his most recent book is 'Breaking Open: Finding a Way Through Spiritual Emergency', with psychiatrist Tim Read: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Breaking-Ope...   Jules Evans' website: https://www.philosophyforlife.org/

How do we have conversations that can go into new territory? John Vervaeke and Peter Limberg are enmarked on a project to revive the ancient practice of 'dialogos', a form of dialogue that created the first wave of Greek philosophy.   Peter Limberg will be leading a session for the Rebel Wisdom Community this Thursday, on the topic of Memetic Mediation, more details below, to take part, become a Rebel Wisdom Member.   John Vervaeke has become known to many through his series 'Awakening From the Meaning Crisis'. Since the release of this grand history of thought, he has turned his attention to the process of how we come to generate new ideas; dialogue and dialectic.   Peter Limberg runs The Stoa, and is the Rebel Wisdom Toronto Correspondent: https://www.thestoa.ca/   In this wide-ranging and fascinating discussion, they talk about where the cutting edge of the evolving conversation is at, and the necessity to cultivate new skills to move forward.   To get access to more exclusive content, and to join the growing Rebel Wisdom Community, become a member: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans   Peter's Session: The Psychodynamic is Political, The Art of Memetic Meditation with Peter Limberg - Thursday 27th 7PM EST/ 4PM PST/ 12AM UK/ 9AM Fri Eastern Australia   As a whole, we are not only becoming politically and philosophically divergent, we are becoming increasingly fragmented. Multiple worldviews of how the world "is" and "ought" to be are co-existing, and this co-existence is not a peaceful one.   The build-up towards the 2020 election in American is seeing to an intensification of our culture war, and because of this we are seeing memetic violence turn kinetic. How can we wise rebels address this? Memetic mediation, the ability to mediate amongst radically different worldviews by taking on a multitude of perspectives, might hold the key.   Before mediating between "memetic tribes" however, one will have to address their own internal conflict. The psychodynamic is political. If one cannot get into the right relationship with themselves, and the various subpersonalities they consist of, they won't be able to help others get into the right relationship with each other.   In this interactive session, Peter Limberg will introduce the concept of memetic mediation, followed by various practices that will help us sniff out our "philosophical allergies", in service to learning how to be responsive rather than reactive in the culture war. 90 mins.

Can indigenous thinking save the world? Tyson Yunkaporta's new book 'Sand Talk' explores this question and is making a big impact. A senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne, Tyson is a member of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland.   In conversation with Rebel Wisdom's Alexander Beiner, he explains how looking back on Western civilisation from an indigenous perspective opens up a new way to look at everything from the economy and government to complexity theory and the culture wars.   With a unique blend of humour, theory and indigenous knowledge, he provides an important new perspective on some of the biggest issues we've covered on the channel.   Links:   Read Sand Talk: https://www.amazon.com/Sand-Talk-Indi...   Tyson's author profile: https://www.harpercollins.com/blogs/a...   Alexander's Medium profile: https://medium.com/@alexander.beiner   To get access to more exclusive content, and to join the growing Rebel Wisdom Community, become a member: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

Ayishat Akanbi is a stylist and cultural commentator, her monologue 'The Problem with Wokeness' went viral a couple of years ago.   She argues that modern social justice movements, or 'wokeness', often creates division, and harms those it is intended to help.   In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller, she talks about how she used to be an activist, but her perspective comes from a deep spiritual transformation she went through. She also talks about the paradox of wanting to get beyond the politics of identity, while knowing that her identity characteristics mean that her words are taken more seriously.   Links:   The Problem with Wokeness: https://youtu.be/_-WimRb2jXs   Ayishat's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ayishat_Akanbi   David's Twitter: https://twitter.com/fullydavid   To get access to more exclusive content, and to join the growing Rebel Wisdom Community, become a member: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

Since the start of the pandemic there has been an exponential growth in all-encompassing conspiracy narratives, with the viral success of the 'Plandemic' documentary trailer being the most popular example.   In particular we have seen traditional right wing conspiracy narratives combine with traditional left wing alternative, spiritual communities.   What is this new phenomenon, and what is causing it?   In this film in Rebel Wisdom's Sensemaking series we try to understand the nexus between spirituality and conspiracy thinking.   Playlist for the Sensemaking Series is here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...   Link to Spiritual Emergency book by Jules Evans and Tim Read: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Breaking-Ope...   'Conspirituality', by Jules Evans: https://medium.com/@julesevans/conspi...   To get access to more exclusive content, and to join the growing Rebel Wisdom Community, become a member: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

Rebel Wisdom's Sensemaking Series is all about the problem of Truth in the digital age.   This film looks at how the alternative media creates and enforces tribal boundaries, and argues that some kind of mediation is needed to tackle the spiral of polarisation and division.   The first film 'What the F**k Is Going On?' looked at the crisis of traditional media, and has had 330,000 views in a month: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkKnO...   Other films and articles referenced in this film: 'Culture War 2.0' Peter Limberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHGbA...   Check out Peter's Stoa project: https://www.thestoa.ca/   Internet of Beefs, Venkatesh Rao: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16...   Matt Taibbi & Bret Weinstein, The Dark Horse Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xojSW...   Matt Taibbi 'The Left is Now the Right': https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-lef...   'What the Right Gets Wrong about Social Justice Culture', Quillette: https://quillette.com/2020/07/20/what...   Can Truth Survive Big Tech? Tristan Harris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHQQF...   Humanity's Phase Shift, Daniel Schmachtenberger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQRzx...   Legacy of Integral, Jamie Wheal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4krRS...   Glitch in the Matrix II, The Origin of the Intellectual Dark Web: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKeMI...   'Is the Intellectual Dark Web an Integral Conversation?' Ken Wilber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2XK8...   To get access to more exclusive content, become a Rebel Wisdom subscriber: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans    

Rebel Wisdom's Sensemaking Series is looking at the problem of truth in the digital age. If we can't agree on what is true, how can we even begin to solve any of the other problems we are facing.   In the first film in the series 'What the F*ck is Going On', a month ago, we looked at the growing crisis in journalism. The crisis has continued to accelerate in the last few weeks.   In this edition, Rebel Wisdom founder, journalist David Fuller speaks to Jesse Singal from the Blocked and Reported podcast, and also brings in new material with Bret Weinstein, and frameworks to understand what's happening from Jordan Hall.   Follow David Fuller on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fullydavid

How is social media and big tech pushing us towards conflict and polarisation?   Tristan Harris has been called the "conscience of silicon valley". He worked for Google as a Design Ethicist until 2016, when he became so concerned about the direction tech was taking us that he quit, to set up the Centre for Humane Technology.   In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller, they discuss how the incentive structure of the "attention economy" is turning us into different kinds of beings, and that if we can't recover some human values, then the future for humanity looks bleak.   Links:   Centre for Humane Technology: https://humanetech.com/   Tristan's TED Talk: How a Handful of Tech Companies Control Billions of Minds Every Day: https://www.ted.com/talks/tristan_har...   Interview with Tim Ferris: https://tim.blog/2019/09/19/tristan-h...   To get access to more exclusive content, become a Rebel Wisdom subscriber: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans   We've also just launched the Rebel Wisdom store! Buy T Shirts and more on https://shop.rebelwisdom.co.uk

The Intellectual Dark Web was framed as a space to have the conversations that were being frozen out by the mainstream platforms.   Evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein was one of the most high profile victims of extreme campus culture in Evergreen College in 2017.   What does he make of the trajectory of the Intellectual Dark Web project over the last two years?   This interview was conducted in late February 2020.   This film is part of Rebel Wisdom's Sensemaking Series, see part 1, 'What the F*ck is Going On?' here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkKnO...   Part 2 is: My Journey with Jordan Peterson & the Intellectual Dark Web: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXpWI...   And Part 3: The Death of Journalism? Jesse Singal & Katie Herzog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9AVo...   To support Rebel Wisdom, and get member benefits including regular Q&As with the interviewees from our films for our members, check out: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

The music of James contains one of the most complete records of the process of spiritual transformation in music. But until now, the author of these lyrics has not shared where his inspiration came from.   While most of the band's contemporaries in late 80s Manchester such as the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays were fuelled by hedonism and ecstasy, singer Tim Booth was deep in hardcore spiritual practice.   In this full and frank conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller, Tim explains the full backstory for the first time.   There is a Medium article alongside this film with links to many of the band's songs referenced in the film: https://medium.com/rebel-wisdom/music...   To support Rebel Wisdom, and get member benefits including regular Q&As with the interviewees from our films for our members, check out: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

Over two years ago the New York Times reported on "a group of heretics, making an end run around the national conversation", the Intellectual Dark Web.   Since then the concept has been celebrated and criticised in equal measure. Rebel Wisdom talks to the man who came up with the name, mathematician Eric Weinstein, about the web and its critics. What has been learned since 2018?   This interview was conducted in April 2020.   This film is part of Rebel Wisdom's Sensemaking Series, see part 1, 'What the F*ck is Going On?' here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkKnO...   Part 2 is: My Journey with Jordan Peterson & the Intellectual Dark Web: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXpWI... And   Part 3: The Death of Journalism? Jesse Singal & Katie Herzog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9AVo...   To support Rebel Wisdom, and get member benefits including regular Q&As with the interviewees from our films for our members, check out: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

At the start of the 20th century, the Nordic Countries were some of the poorest in Europe, with the lowest quality of life. By the end of the century they were some of the wealthiest and best places to live in the world.   Why and how? According to philosopher and social entrepreneur Tomas Björkman, the reason is that they paid attention to inner development, more than outer growth, in a huge cultural project of personal growth.   He argues that the pace of change that we are going through now requires a similar focus on the techniques of development.   You can also become a Rebel Wisdom member, for many benefits including our regular Q&As with the interviewees from our films, check out: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

The great psychologist and psychedelic therapist Stanislav Grof described psychedelics as a "non-specific amplifier" of consciousness, meaning that they made everything more intense, both positive and negative experiences.   If the pandemic crisis has acted like a non specific amplifier of many of the existing issues with society and culture, and we are now all in an altered state together, how can we best navigate it?   Erik Davis is a historian of psychedelic culture, and in this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller he looks at what can be learnt from the pioneers of the past, such as Terence McKenna, Philip K. Dick and Robert Anton Wilson.   He is the creator of the site Technosis, and the author of many books including "High Weirdness": https://techgnosis.com/    You can also become a Rebel Wisdom member, for many benefits including our regular Q&As with the interviewees from our films, check out: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

This film is part of Rebel Wisdom's ongoing Sensemaking Series.   Part 1, What the F*ck is Going On? is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkKnO...   Rebel Wisdom published the first documentary on Jordan Peterson in January 2018. Just days later he shot to fame on a viral interview on Channel 4 News, where Rebel Wisdom's founder David Fuller worked for a decade.   This sparked a new film, 'Glitch in the Matrix, Jordan Peterson, the Mainstream Media and the Intellectual Dark Web' that has been viewed over five million times.   In this talk from the end of 2019, David Fuller explains the origin story, and what happened next as he continued to follow the trail of the Intellectual Dark Web.   Links: Glitch in the Matrix I: https://youtu.be/trhTbEs2GGE   Glitch in the Matrix II: https://youtu.be/TKeMIWVOnbo   Jay Shapiro on Rebel Wisdom: https://youtu.be/MX_vzjEl02o   Timbah on Toast, Dave Rubin's Battle of Ideas: https://youtu.be/u3TPxQao3m0 (Pt 1), https://youtu.be/a3h9YyzqBxs (Pt 2), https://youtu.be/N2LOvoDCPS8 (Pt 3)   Cathy Young's Quillette piece on the IDW and tribalism: https://quillette.com/2019/05/24/how-...   Peter Limberg and Conor Barnes' Medium piece on memetic tribes: https://medium.com/s/world-wide-wtf/m...    

This film is part of Rebel Wisdom's Sensemaking Series, see part 1, 'What the F*ck is Going On?' here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkKnO...   In the last two weeks a series of newsroom revolts have rocked American journalism. What's going on, and have some fundamental values of journalism been compromised?   Jesse Singal has written for The Atlantic, NYMag and many other outlets, and Katie Herzog is a former staffer at Seattle's The Stranger. They are the hosts of the new podcast Blocked and Reported.   Relevant links:   Blocked and Reported Podcast: https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/   Matt Taibbi, The American Press is Destroying Itself: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-new...   Bari Weiss tweetstorm: https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/...   Jesse Singal, 'When Children Say They’re Trans': https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...   Katie Herzog, 'The Detransitioners: They Were Transgender, Until They Weren't': https://www.thestranger.com/features/...     To support Rebel Wisdom, and get member benefits including regular Q&As with the interviewees from our films for our members, check out: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

The question of who to trust, how we find truth and how we are being manipulated is central to understanding and solving all our other problems.   The pandemic crisis has acted like an amplifier and catalyst of all the existing fractures in culture. The question of reliable sensemaking is right at the core of resolving any of these problems.   Rebel Wisdom is beginning a series of films looking at the question of truth and sensemaking. Starting with a look back at one of the attempts to answer that question, the Intellectual Dark Web.   Links to films and articles mentioned in this piece.   Sam Harris & Jonathan Haidt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNyvn...   Glitch in the Matrix II, The Origin of the Intellectual Dark Web: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKeMI...   Matt Taibbi, The American Press is Destroying Itself: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-new...   Bari Weiss tweetstorm: https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/...   Ryan Bennett on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ry_Nomad   Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying, Having a Real Conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBkF-...   Mike Nayna, Evergreen Trilogy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH2We...   The Intellectual Dark Web, an Integral Conversation? Ken Wilber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2XK8...   Deep Code, Jordan Hall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j3cC...   War on Sensemaking, Daniel Schmachtenberger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lqao...     To support Rebel Wisdom, and get member benefits including regular Q&As with the interviewees from our films for our members, check out: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

Douglas Rushkoff (Team Human) and Jamie Wheal (Stealing Fire) are two of the foremost modern historians of cutting edge transformational culture, but until now have never been in dialogue with each other. For this one off event they discuss the potential future of humans and technology.   Faced with broken economics, powerful tech platforms and information warfare, how do we stay authentically human and work together sustainably?   Humans vs Tech, Douglas Rushkoff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koE-Z...   Stealing Fire from the Gods, Jamie Wheal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1eXS...   To get access to more exclusive content and to join this evolving conversation, become a Rebel Wisdom member: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans   We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW

This is a companion piece to the film - Jordan Peterson and the Hidden Epidemic: https://youtu.be/YbewqT6iBLs   The Canadian psychologist and celebrity Jordan Peterson recently broke his near-year long silence and descibed his debilitating illness as the result of benzodiazepine dependence.   Robert Whitaker is an investigative journalist, shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, and the author of several books about the long term effects of psychiatric drugs including Anatomy of an Epidemic.   In this interview with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller he explains how the situation that Jordan Peterson found himself in is all too common, and affects many millions of people around the world.   Relevant links from the conversation:   The Mikhaila Peterson Podcast #9 - Jordan B. Peterson - Family Update June 2020 (includes list of resources in the show notes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLWgV...   "Anatomy of an Epidemic", Robert Whitaker: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...   Robert Whitaker's 'Mad in America' profile: https://www.madinamerica.com/author/r...   "Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good", James Davies: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...   New article by our friend Jules Evans, "Instead of pills, social connection": https://medium.com/@julesevans/social...   You can also view our films on our YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/RebelWisdom/featured   To support Rebel Wisdom, and get member benefits including regular Q&As with the interviewees from our films for our members, check out: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

The Canadian psychologist and celebrity Jordan Peterson recently broke his near-year long silence and descibed his debilitating illness as the result of benzodiazepine dependence.   Peterson became ill simply as a result of following doctors' advice. What does that say about our society and culture, our media environment, and the state of psychiatric medicine.   In this Rebel Wisdom investigation, David Fuller talks to one of the world's leading investigators of the long term effects of psychiatric drugs, Robert Whitaker, a Pulitzer Prize shortlisted author.   He also links it to Eric Weinstein's concept of the DISC, or Distributed Idea Suppression Complex, to explore why the knowledge of the long term dangers of these drugs is not reflected in the media conversation.   The whole interview with Robert Whitaker is being released at the same time as this film: https://youtu.be/LQvN5aFcBr8   Relevant links from the conversation:   The Mikhaila Peterson Podcast #9 - Jordan B. Peterson - Family Update June 2020 (includes list of resources in the show notes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLWgV...   "Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good", James Davies: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...   "Anatomy of an Epidemic", Robert Whitaker: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...   Robert Whitaker's 'Mad in America' profile: https://www.madinamerica.com/author/r...   Films:   War on Sensemaking, Daniel Schmachtenberger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lqao...   Glitch in the Matrix 2, The Origin of the Intellectual Dark Web, Eric Weinstein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKeMI...   You can also view our films on our YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/RebelWisdom/featured   To support Rebel Wisdom, and get member benefits including regular Q&As with the interviewees from our films for our members, check out: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

As tensions rise over racial divisions throughout the western world, books like 'White Fragility' and 'How to Be An Anti-Racist' have flown to the top of the bestseller lists. These frame race as central to our understanding of the world.   In his book, 'Unlearning Race, Self-Portrait in Black and White', Thomas Chatterton Williams takes a very different tack, attempting to understand his own mixed race background and arguing that we should move away from seeing racial categories as primary and fixed.   What does he make of this new focus on race, and how does identity politics wall us off from each other?   You can listen to podcast versions of our films on Spotify or Apple Podcasts by searching 'Rebel Wisdom'   You can also view our films on our YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/RebelWisdom/featured   To support Rebel Wisdom, and get member benefits including regular Q&As with the interviewees from our films for our members, check out: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

Just as the Covid pandemic was starting to transform our lives, Daniel Thorson, the creator of the Emerge podcast, started a 75 day silent retreat in rural Vermont.

What would a new operating system for society look like? In 2013, Jim Rutt brought together a group of thinkers from different fields to work on the biggest of all problems. In time it developed a name, 'Game~B'.   The in-person project ran into the ground after a year, but continued as an online meeting place.   Recently there has been a new wave of interest in the term. What can be learned from the story of the original project?   Note: These interviews are from 2019, and were intended for a larger film about Game B, with more interviews with the original members - it is being published now in an incomplete form.   Apologies to those not featured.   You can also view our films on our YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/RebelWisdom/featured   You can also become a Rebel Wisdom member, for many benefits including our regular Q&As with the interviewees from our films, check out: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

This is an audio version of Race, Riots & History, Greg Thomas which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site June 6th 2020. America's cities are ablaze with rioting after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, amid the heightened tensions of the coronavirus crisis. As a a scholar of Black American issues, jazz critic & integral theorist, Greg Thomas brings a unique perspective to this moment in history. In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's Alexander Beiner, he discusses the history of civil rights in the US through an integral lens, and explores what it will take to have a compassionate, nuanced and honest conversation around race and identity. Read more about Greg's work on his blog: https://www.tuneintoleadership.com/blog See Greg in our film 'Lost Ways of Knowing': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrqfg... You can watch Greg's talk with Erik Davis at the Rebel Wisdom Festival 'Lessons from the Counterculture' by becoming a $5 a month member on www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

This is an audio version of Making Sense of the Downward Spiral, Daniel Schmachtenberger which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site May 25th 2020. America's cities are ablaze with rioting after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. This comes in the heightened tensions of the coronavirus crisis. How can we make sense of this spiral of polarisation, and are bad actors taking advantage of the situation? This conversation with evolutionary philosopher Daniel Schmachtenberger concluded the Rebel Wisdom Festival on Sunday.  A full set of films from the festival are available on the Rebel Wisdom website, including: Lessons from Counterculture History, Greg Thomas & Erik Davis Imagined Futures for Team Human, Jamie Wheal & Douglas Rushkoff Spiritual Emergency & Mental Health in a post-Covid World, Jules Evans Imagined Futures in Psychedelic Medicine with Ros Watts & Alexander Beiner Sensemaking the Media Landscape with David Fuller & Peter Limberg And many more, with Jordan Hall, John Vervaeke, Nora Bateson, Dr Tia Kansara, Carl Miller & others. To view them, become a Rebel Wisdom Member for as little as $5: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans  

This is an audio version of The Conspiracy "Myth", Charles Eisenstein which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site May 25th 2020. The world is rife with conspiracy theory, why, and what does it say about this moment in history? In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller, Charles Eisenstein outlines why he thinks conspiracy theory is best understood mythologically. Charles's article 'The Conspiracy Myth' is here: https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/... The article referred to by David Fuller, Cashing in on Covid, is here: https://medium.com/rebel-wisdom/cashi... Charles's previous film with Rebel Wisdom, An Epidemic of Control, is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK8C_... You can listen to podcast versions of our films on Spotify or Apple Podcasts by searching 'Rebel Wisdom' or download episodes from our Podbean page: https://rebelwisdom.podbean.com You can also become a Rebel Wisdom member, for many benefits including our regular Q&As with the interviewees from our films, check out: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans  

This is an audio version of London Real Update, Coffeezilla & Rebel Wisdom  which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site May 20th 2020. A couple of weeks ago Rebel Wisdom published an investigation into the fundraising of London Real in the aftermath of their banned interview with David Icke. This can be watched here: https://youtu.be/hDM1wTGOjOw The channel Coffeezilla also covered the story. In the aftermath of the interview both Rebel Wisdom and Coffeezilla were contacted by multiple people with knowledge of the events, and have continued to research the background. Here we talk through our findings and what we understand of the backstory. Brian Rose has been contacted ten times now and asked for a response to the questions and allegations in these films, and has not responded.You can also become a Rebel Wisdom member, for many benefits including our regular Q&As with the interviewees from our films, check out: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

This is an audio version of Trust, truth and media in the pandemic, Douglas Murray which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site May 16th 2020. In the middle of this ongoing crisis - the question of who to trust, how to find truth, censorship and free speech are coming centre stage. Douglas Murray is a the associate editor of the Spectator,  and the author of the bestselling books the strange death of europe and the recent 'madness of crowds', and also a fearless critic of the blind spots of the mainstream media. In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller, they explore the censorship of the big tech platforms, the decline of the traditional media and also the issues raised by the recent Rebel wisdom investigation into David Icke and London Real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDM1w... You can also become a Rebel Wisdom member, for many benefits including our regular Q&As with the interviewees from our films, check out: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

This is an audio version of David Icke & London Real, an Investigation which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site May 2nd 2020. On 6th April, London Real broadcast an interview with 'conspiracy researcher' David Icke. In it he claimed that Covid-19 was "a hoax" and that 5G was designed for a "mass cull". YouTube took it down. In the wake of this the owner of London Real, Brian Rose launched a crowdfunding campaign for what he called the "Digital Freedom Platform". This has raced to nearly $1m in just over a week. However, lots of the claims about the platform don't appear to add up. This is an investigation into the platform, the wider issue of free speech and the censorship of the big tech platforms. Documents and articles referenced in the film include: London Real 'Digital Freedom Platform': https://donate.londonreal.tv/freedom-...  Scamguard: https://www.scamguard.com/londonrealtv/ NY Mag: "We Still Don’t Know How the Coronavirus Is Killing Us" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/... Evidence SARS-CoV-2 Emerged From a Biological Laboratory in Wuhan, China https://project-evidence.github.io/ Longstem Ltd, Companies House: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/co... Check out Rebel Wisdom's recent film 'War on Sensemaking 4, Pandemic and Conspiracy': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G70qt... You can also become a Rebel Wisdom member, for many benefits including our regular Q&As with the interviewees from our films, check out: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

This is an audio version of Conspiracy & Pandemic, with John Vervaeke, Carl Miller & Jules Evans which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site May 14th 2020. The pandemic crisis has created what researcher Carl Miller has called the "biggest moment for conspiracy narratives in history". What draws us to them, and why do they inspire such passion and certainty? In this film, Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller talks to psychology professor John Vervaeke, philosophy author Jules Evans and Carl Miller, to try to understand a deeper level of conspiracy thinking. Also check out the recent 'War on Sensemaking, Pandemic & Conspiracy': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G70qt... You can also become a Rebel Wisdom member, for many benefits including our regular Q&As with the interviewees from our films, check out: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

Over the last month, Rebel Wisdom has been interviewing some of the brightest minds in systems change and complexity to make sense of the crisis and possible responses to it. One thing that has emerged in these conversations is the importance of understanding myth and stories to contextualise what we're experiencing. Rebel Wisdom's Alexander Beiner interviewed three people with an understanding of how myths, stories and wisdom traditions give us a new insight into the crisis: Zak Stein, Stephen Jenkinson and Charlotte du Cann. Here, we weave these conversations together with ideas we've explored on the channel in the past to look at the mythopoetic landscape of the pandemic. This film is accompanied by an article on our Medium page that explores the ideas in the film in more detail:https://medium.com/rebel-wisdom/traversing-the-underworld-what-myth-can-teach-us-during-the-pandemic-802d07683d44

This is an audio version of War on Sensemaking 4: Pandemic & Conspiracy, Daniel Schmachtenberger which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site April 17th 2020. In the popular film War on Sensemaking, existential risk analyst Daniel Schmachtenberger laid out how the information ecology was fundamentally broken.  The pandemic crisis has brought many of those concerns into sharp focus. In this follow up, he looks at misinformation, conspiracy theories and government narratives, and asks, what can we trust and how can we know what is true?You can also become a Rebel Wisdom member, for many benefits including our regular Q&As with the interviewees from our films, check out: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

This is an audio version of Complexity & the Pandemic, Nora Bateson, Joe Brewer & Jim Rutt which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site April 8th 2020. The pandemic and the subsequent crisis took our institutions and leaders by surprise. But the people who have been studying complexity and systems for decades saw this coming. What can the lens of systems theory and complexity reveal about the crisis? Rebel Wisdom talks to three experts in the field. Jim Rutt, the former chairman of the world-leading Santa Fe Institute, Nora Bateson, the head of the Bateson Institute and the inventor of 'Warm Data' labs, and Joe Brewer, an expert in complexity research, cognitive science, and cultural evolution.Rebel Wisdom are now running regular Q&As with the interviewees from our films for our members, check out: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

This is an audio version of Resilience and Sensemaking, Rebel Wisdom which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site March 27th 2020. On Sunday, 5 April we're hosting Resilience & Sensemaking - a free, interactive one day online event bringing together some of the best thinkers and facilitators we know. Check out https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/oneday for more details. The day is designed to help you connect with others interested in these ideas, increase your resilience and sharpen your sensemaking in response to the pandemic. We'll make sense of the unfolding crisis with the help of Jamie Wheal, Diane Musho Hamilton, David Fuller & Alexander Beiner. We'll learn how to create anti-fragile communities and networks from Sara Ness and Rich Bartlett, and learn tips for personal resilience practices from a whole team of world-class facilitators. We're offering a lot of different types of practice, from breathwork and meditation to martial arts, yoga and authentic relating. The event is free, all you have to do is sign up on the website: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/oneday We've released a couple of resources we originally developed for our online course: A Guide to Inquiry: https://youtu.be/cxIt_OubC-E Sovereignty Meditation: https://youtu.be/BFA5Rrj4W4M We are increasing our member calls and now running regular Q&As with the interviewees from our films for members, check out: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

This is an audio version of Covid 19 Situational Assessment, Risk Landscape & Possible Solutions, Daniel Schmachtenberger which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site March 22nd 2020. In this fast changing and overwhelming pandemic crisis, what is really going on, and what should individuals and governments do? Daniel Schmachtenberger works on global catastrophic risk assessment and mitigation, systemic fragility, and evolving societal architecture. He has been tracking this virus since its early outbreak in China and for the last few weeks has been working on supporting coordinated response strategies, interfacing with major institutional and private sector actors. In this situational assessment, he outlines some of the misconceptions about the virus, some likely trajectories for the US and the rest of the world, and lays out some concrete proposals for avoiding disaster. Daniel's recent post on Facebook outlined issues with misinformation and the information ecology during the pandemic: https://www.facebook.com/notes/daniel... Useful analysis for understanding the pandemic are the articles by Tomas Pueyo: Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now: https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/corona... Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance: https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/corona... Daniel's full bio from Helena: https://helena.org/about "Daniel has participated in projects to survey the landscape of existential and catastrophic risks, advance forecasting and mitigation strategies, and develop capacities for the kinds of multi-agent coordination needed to implement sufficient solutions. Associated work has been done to synthesize and advance civilizational collapse and institutional decay models, insofar as they are useful in both scenario modeling and designing more resilient systems. That body of work also explored the social architectures that give rise to the coordination failures underneath and driving all catastrophic risk scenarios, and identified a finite set of generator functions (believed to be a complete set). Categorical solutions to those generator functions would solve for the class of collapse obsoleting the need for focus on isolated instances. Such solutions are believed to be achievable and would represent the kernel for a new and robust civilizational model…that has the capacity for enduring antifragility in the presence of the (destabilizing) power conferred by decentralized exponential technology.  Advancing those models for long term viability, along with advancing the capacities for sense-making, design, and coordination needed to support the necessary nearer-term transitional and protective work, is Daniel’s mission and focus. Some of this thinking on these topics can be found here (mostly in podcasts): https://civilizationemerging.com/ He has also done work in functional medicine and biotech, education and human development, and consulted local and global organizations on how to solve complex problems across many sectors." Rebel Wisdom are now running regular Q&As with the interviewees from our films for our members, check out: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

This is an audio version of The Unfolding Meta-Crisis, Jordan Hall which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site March 21st 2020. We are in the middle of an accelerating crisis that is overwhelming our medical, financial and cultural systems. What is happening, and what is likely to happen next? Jordan Hall is a futurist and culture hacker. He's been studying the fragilities of our operating system for mamny years, and predicting a crisis, and shift to a new operating system. In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller, they discuss how the crisis is affecting different nations, and how it is likely to play out in different parts of the world.  For more analysis with Jordan Hall, check out the documentary Deep Code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j3cC... Rebel Wisdom are now running regular Q&As with the interviewees from our films for our members, check out: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

This is an audio version of Sensemaking the Coronavirus, Rebel Wisdom which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site March 15th 2020. We are in the middle of an unprecedented global crisis. How do we make sense of it, and how do we respond? Rebel Wisdom talks to four people trying to make sense of what's happening, the author of the hugely popular article on the virus (24 million shares in a couple of days) Tomas Pueyo, former UK government advisor Alex Evans, the creator of Human Systems Joe Edelman and former star of the channel Joshua Fields. Links below: Tomas Pueyo 'Coronoavirus, Why You Must Act Now' https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/corona... Joe Rogan with Michael Osterholm (infectious disease expert) https://youtu.be/E3URhJx0NSw Sam Harris 'Early Thoughts on a Pandemic' with Amesh Adalja https://samharris.org/podcasts/191-ea... LitCovid - resource for scientific papers on corona virus: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research... An open sourced set of tech, tools and data relating to the pandemic: https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/ Rebel Wisdom Discord: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW People to follow on Twitter: Dr Muge Cevik: https://twitter.com/mugecevik Trevor Bedford: https://twitter.com/trvrb Up-to-date information through Worldometers: https://www.worldometers.info/coronav... Raw data from GitHub: https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COV... Rebel Wisdom are now running regular Q&As with the interviewees from our films for our members, check out: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

This is an audio version of Going Viral over Corona, Tomas Pueyo which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site March 15th 2020. This is a companion piece to Rebel Wisdom's 'Sensemaking the Coronavirus': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3--5k... He wrote a Medium post on Coronavirus that was shared 24 million times in a couple of days. Tomas Pueyo immersed himself in the data and produced an exhaustive 39 page analysis of the outbreak. In this exclusive interview with Rebel Wisdom he discusses the likely progression of the virus, and why the sensemaking around it seems to have broken down. Links below: Tomas Pueyo 'Coronavirus, Why You Must Act Now' https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/corona... Joe Rogan with Michael Osterholm (infectious disease expert) https://youtu.be/E3URhJx0NSw Sam Harris 'Early Thoughts on a Pandemic' with Amesh Adalja https://samharris.org/podcasts/191-ea... LitCovid - resource for scientific papers on corona virus: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research... Rebel Wisdom Discord: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW People to follow on Twitter: Dr Muge Cevik: https://twitter.com/mugecevik Trevor Bedford: https://twitter.com/trvrb Up-to-date information through Worldometers: https://www.worldometers.info/coronav... Raw data from GitHub: https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COV... Rebel Wisdom are now running regular Q&As with the interviewees from our films for our members, check out: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

This is an audio version of Broken Mice, Epstein & the DISC, Brett & Eric Weinstein which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site March 4th 2020. Does the response to the Jeffrey Epstein story, and the tale of the broken mice mean that journalism is broken? Recently Bret and Eric Weinstein put out a hugely popular podcast about a scientific discovery that calls into question the entire process of drug safety ('All Our Mice Are Broken' Episode 19 of The Portal). They say that over 20 years of trying to get interest in this story, the response from the medical and media establishment has been silence. Eric has termed this phenomenon the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex, or DISC. In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller, Bret and Eric lay out the story of the broken mice, and the response to their conversation, and also discuss the unanswered questions at the heart of the Jeffrey Epstein case. Portal episode 19: 'All Our Mice Are Broken': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLb5h... Portal episode 18: 'Slipping the DISC': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxnkG... Rebel Wisdom are now running regular Q&As with the interviewees from our films for our members, check out: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW

This is an audio version of Lost Ways of Knowing which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on February 14th 2020. Culture is fragmenting into ideological tribes defined by rigid certainty and reductionist thinking. As a result, we're struggling to find new solutions to the significant challenges we face. What if it's the way we're perceiving that's the problem? Rebel Wisdom's Alexander Beiner has spent the last few months interviewing scientists, facilitators and systems theorists to explore the neuroscience, psychology and history of different ways of knowing, and how we can use them to make sense. It includes new interviews with John Vervaeke, philosopher Nora Bateson, and jazz theorist Greg Thomas, facilitator Bonnitta Roy and a brand new conversation between Iain McGilchrist and John Vervaeke. This film accompanies a three part written series which we're releasing on the Rebel Wisdom Medium channel. Chapter 1 is out now and can be found here: http://bit.ly/2wa2Lsf You can see some of the people in this film live at the Rebel Wisdom Festival, London, May 30/31 2020: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/festival Rebel Wisdom are now running regular Q&As with the interviewees from our films for our members, check out: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW

This is an audio version of How to spot a cult, Jamie Wheal which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on December 9th 2019.  In his bestseller, Stealing Fire, Jamie Wheal talked about peak experiences and group flow states as the cutting edge for human evolution. But since then, he's become more and more concerned by how these techniques are being used and abused. Now he's releasing a checklist - to answer the question - how to spot a cult. To download the Ethical Cult Checklist, go to: http://flowgenomeproject.com/checklist To see films from the recent workshop with Jamie, 'Ethical Cult Building, Collective Sensemaking in an Age of Existential Risk', become a Rebel Wisdom member: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We also reference the 'Making Sense of Sensemaking' film in this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Es_W... We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW

This is an audio version of Tech vs Human, Douglas Rushkoff which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on January 24th 2020.  Is technology a friend or foe? How can the human spirit survive in an age of weaponised disinformation, attention hijack and digital manipulation? Douglas Rushkoff has made these questions his life's mission, culminating in his recent "mic drop" moment, Team Human. In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller he talks about the trajectory of silicon valley, from psychedelic tech utopianism, to corporate takeover and attention warfare. Named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His twenty books include the just-published Team Human, based on his podcast, as well as the bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks and the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and Media Virus. We will be hosting a member's Q&A with Douglas next Monday, sign up as a Rebel Wisdom Sensemaker to join: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW

This is an audio version of The Story of Collapse, Daniel Thorson & Josh Fields which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on February 1st 2020.  Are we living at the best possible time to be alive, or is the world coming to an end? Or do both narratives have some truth at the same time? This is a discussion between Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller, Daniel Thorson from the Emerge podcast and Joshua Fields, the CEO of 'Consciousness Hacking' a San Francisco-based organisation aiming to harness techonology for personal and cultural transformation. Joshua and Daniel have delved deeply into the 'collapse' narrative in their work, and this conversation ranges from climate to Greta Thunberg, Extinction Rebellion and many other topics. Recent Rebel Wisdom interview with Joshua Fields: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zscgm... To get access to more exclusive content and to join this evolving conversation, become a Rebel Wisdom member: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW   

This is an audio version of War on Sensemaking 3, the Infinite Game: Jamie Wheal which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on January 24th 2020.  How do we play the Infinite Game? And how will that help us make sense of a world in chaos? In the hit film 'War on Sensemaking', Daniel Schmachtenberger laid out how the information ecology was profoundly broken, and how impossible it was to act if we didn't know what was true. In this response, flow expert Jamie Wheal outlines his answer to Daniel's question, outlining what the 'Infinite Game' looks like, how we might uplevel human consciousness and what a 'Game B' society might look like. Rebel Wisdom are now running regular Q&As with the interviewees from our films for our members, including Jamie on Wednesday January 29th, check out: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW

This is an audio version of After the Meaning Crisis, John Vervaeke which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on December 24th 2019.  John Vervaeke's 'Awakening From the Meaning Crisis' has been an influential hit of 2019. A professor at Toronto University's psychology department, the series sketches out a big vision of the trajectory of western thought from the axial age to the present day. In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller, he talks about the impact that the series has had on his life, and the journey he has been on since the start of 2019, and what comes next - his new series, 'After Socrates'.   We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW    

This is an audio version of Rebel Wisdom Review of 2019 which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on December 28th 2019.  This is Rebel Wisdom's review of the year with clips from many of our most popular films of the year, and our reflections on the trajectory of the channel over 2019. In 2019 Rebel Wisdom released 83 films on the main channel, had a total of 3,950,472 views, and added 54,350 subscribers - helping us break the 100k barrier at the end of November. Thank you for your support, enjoy this review, and see you in 2020. Perhaps at the Rebel Wisdom Festival, London, May 2020: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/festival Clips in this film are from the following films: Where Gillette Went Wrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnWB8... Toxic Femininity? Heather Heying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oVyQ... Glitch in the Matrix II, The Origin of the Intellectual Dark Web: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKeMI... Mill Series Talk: My Journey with the Intellectual Dark Web: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXUyv... Ken Wilber: 'Jordan Peterson and the evolution of thought': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDjCn... Ken Wilber: The Intellectual Dark Web, an Integral Conversation? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2XK8... The Legacy of Integral, Jamie Wheal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4krRS... John Vervaeke: Jordan Peterson & the Meaning Crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6RFS... The Polyamorous Professors, Diana Fleischman & Geoffrey Miller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRC6J... Dave Rubin: Alternative Media Needs to Grow Up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9mCN... John Cleese: Philosophy, Spirituality & Political Correctness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr4wo... The Science and Psychology of Polarisation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUNHj... Collective Intelligence Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PldN... Making Sense of Sensemaking: Daniel Schmachtenberger, Jamie Wheal, Jordan Hall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Es_W... Collective Intelligence Practice, Bonnitta Roy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxLMa... The War on Sensemaking, Daniel Schmachtenberger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lqao... Telling The Story of Jordan Peterson, Patricia Marcoccia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZC9b... War on Sensemaking II, Daniel Schmachtenberger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QGrf...

This is an audio version of Why the left keeps losing, Rebel Wisdom podcast which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on December 15th 2019.  The UK election has delivered a landslide win for the right-wing Conservatives, and the biggest defeat for the left-wing Labour party since 1935. What caused it? Why has the left gone down to so many defeats recently, and what would they need to do to change it. This discussion between Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller and Alexander Beiner references many Rebel Wisdom films, including: Conflict & Collective Intelligence, Diane Musho Hamilton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVSm7... Glitch in the Matrix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trhTb... Ken Wilber, the Intellectual Dark Web, an Integral Conversation? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2XK8... A Zen Master talks about Jordan Peterson and the Shadow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABWeA... And references this article by David Hirsh, The Corbyn left: the politics of position and the politics of reason: http://fathomjournal.org/the-corbyn-l...

This is an audio version of The Meaning Crisis & Christianity, James K. A. Smith which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on November 13th 2019.  James KA Smith is a philosopher and theologian at Calvin College in Michigan. He is a scholar of continental philosophy, including the postmodern thinkers, Foucault and Derrida. In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller, they cover how his thought addresses the 'meaning crisis', his take on the Canadian intellectual Jordan Peterson, and his recent book on St Augustine. James's website is here: https://jameskasmith.com/about/ To get access to more exclusive content and to join this evolving conversation, become a Rebel Wisdom member: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW

This is an audio version of Filming the Culture Wars, Mike Nayna which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on November 3rd 2019.  Mike Nayna is an Australian filmmaker who has been following the ongoing 'Grievance Studies' project of Peter Boghossian, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, where they successfully lodged fake papers in academic journals. He began researching activism and followed the ideas to their source in academia. He also put together a trilogy of films about Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying's experience within Evergreen State College. His YouTube site is here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzk0... To get access to more exclusive content and to join this evolving conversation, become a Rebel Wisdom member: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW

This is an audio version of Sam Harris, consciousness & the transcendent, Jonathan Pageau & Jordan Hall which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on October 28th 2019.  What is the relationship between consciousness, religion & reality? Jonathan Pageau has a theory based on the phenomenology - birds-eye view - of consciousness itself. Jonathan is a celebrated icon carver and religious thinker. Jordan Hall is a philosopher and futurist. In this conversation they discuss consciousness, Sam Harris, parenting & religion. Jonathan Pageau's channel, the Symbolic World, is here: https://www.youtube.com/user/pageaujo... To get access to more exclusive content and to join this evolving conversation, become a Rebel Wisdom member: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

This is an audio version of Facing the Shadow, Zen Master Doshin Roshi which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on October 29th 2019.  In Jungian psychology, the 'shadow' is all of the things about ourselves that we deny or reject, and integrating those is key to psychological growth. So how do we face and integrate our shadow elements? Our interview with Zen master Doshin Roshi, 'A Zen master talks about Jordan Peterson and the Shadow', was one of our most viewed films of the last year. To get access to more exclusive content, become a Rebel Wisdom subscriber: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans You can listen to a podcast versions of our films on Spotify or Apple Podcasts by searching 'Rebel Wisdom' or download episodes from our Podbean page: https://rebelwisdom.podbean.com/ We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW

This is an audio version of Fighting Postmodernism from the Left, Helen Pluckrose & Peter Boghossian which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on October 6th 2019.  Helen Pluckrose and Peter Boghossian have taken up positions at the front lines of the culture war. To highlight what they saw as ideological capture of the universities, they submitted hoax papers to high profile journals in the social sciences - what they called the 'grievance studies' hoax. Seven were published, including one on 'Rape Culture' in dog parks, and one with extracts from Hitler's Mein Kampf. For more, check out Mike Nayna's film, 'Pushing Back on Grievance Studies': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLBMx... In this discussion, they talk about the importance of a 'responsible left' taking on postmodernism, being a target for online hate, and the need to stay open to dialogue and criticism. This is a follow up to our previous film, 'Impossible Conversations': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08RoX... To get access to more exclusive content, become a Rebel Wisdom subscriber: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW

This is an audio version of Impossible Conversations: Peter Boghossian, Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay & Letter.Wiki which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on September 27th 2019.  How can we begin to resolve our problems, if even our conversations about them keep breaking down? Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay have researched ninja-level conversation techniques from hostage negotiation and cult deprogramming for their new book, 'How To Have Impossible Conversations'. At the same time, a new competition has been launched on 'Letter.Wiki' to have difficult conversations across intellectual divides. We talk to the book's authors, Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay, the judge of the 'Impossible Conversations' competition, Helen Pluckrose, and the creators of the social media site Letter.Wiki, Clyde and Dayne Rathbone. 'How To Have Impossible Conversations': https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/tit... Letter.Wiki: https://letter.wiki/conversations Check out Rebel Wisdom's series of films 'The Science and Psychology of Difficult Conversation': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUNHj... To get access to more exclusive content, become a Rebel Wisdom subscriber: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We've also just launched the Rebel Wisdom store! Buy T Shirts and more on https://shop.rebelwisdom.co.uk We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW

This is an audio version of What is Wisdom, Roger Walsh which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on September 20th 2019.  Roger Walsh is a celebrated psychiatrist and author of books including 'Essential Spirituality'. He focuses on spiritual practices, psychological health and the psychological roots of our current global crises. He has also been deeply connected in Ken Wilber's Integral philosophy for many years. In this interview with Rebel Wisdom's Alexander Beiner, he talks about how his long involvement with Eastern spiritual practices has informed his understanding about the nature of wisdom. This is one of two interviews with Roger Walsh, to see the second, and many other exclusive films including Terry Patten, Emerging Wisdom, become a Rebel Wisdom Member: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW

This is an audio version of Circling for Collective Intelligence, Guy Sengstock which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on September 7th 2019.  This is part of Rebel Wisdom's series on Collective Intelligence, see the intro film for more: https://youtu.be/6PldNSp3tpU The growing complexity of the world is such that no single mind can hope to comprehend it - so we need to find a form of collective intelligence. Twenty years ago, Guy Sengstock spontaneously invented a practice that came to be known as Circling. He describes it as a "yoga of deep transformational conversations". In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller, they explore the emergent conversation that Rebel Wisdom has been tracking, and how this practice of Circling applies to it. Check out Guy's website: https://www.circlinginstitute.com/ To get access to more exclusive content and to join this evolving conversation, become a Rebel Wisdom member: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW

This is an audio version of Collective Intelligence Practice, Bonnitta Roy which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on September 13th 2019.  This is part of the Rebel Wisdom series on Collective Intelligence, see the introduction to the subject here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PldN... With the realisation that the complexity of the challenges we face are more than one mind can hold, many thinkers are focused on the topic of collective intelligence. What is it, how can we cultivate it, and what problems is it most suited for? Bonnitta Roy has been working in the field of collective intelligence and insight practice for many years, and has developed many powerful methods and applications. In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller they explore the different kinds of collective intelligence that exist, and focus on Collective Insight Practice. To get access to more exclusive content and to join this evolving conversation, become a Rebel Wisdom member: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW Bonnitta's Bio: Bonnitta Roy teaches insight practices for individuals who are developing meta-cognitive skills, and hosts collective insight retreats for groups interested in breaking away from limiting patterns of thought. Her retreat center offers workshops to help people learn classic Daoist approaches to Qigong, energy cultivation and self-mastery. She teaches a masters course in consciousness studies and transpersonal psychology at the Graduate Institute. Bonnitta's company, APP-AI is developing applications that can visualize changing patterns as teams work through complex problems. Her research shows how simple but powerful protocols that underlie these patterns can be used to represent various dispositional states of human systems. Bonnitta is the author of the popular Medium publication Our Future at Work: https://medium.com/@bonnittaroy She is an associate editor of Integral Review where you can also find her articles on process approaches to consciousness, perception, and metaphysics.

This is an audio version of Making Sense of Sensemaking: Daniel Schmachtenberger, Jamie Wheal, Jordan Hall which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on September 4th 2019.  This three-way emergent conversation is unlike anything we've released before. It features three of the world's foremost systems thinkers and futurists - Jordan Hall, Daniel Schmachtenberger and Jamie Wheal - and has been by far our most popular members-only film. We're now releasing it on the main channel as part of our Collective Intelligence Series. What is decentralised collective intelligence and how do we create it? Why does 'sensemaking' matter so much right now? What is coherence and how can we develop it? Take a deep dive with Hall, Wheal and Schmachtenberger into these questions and many more. You can find the first film in the Collective Intelligence series here: https://youtu.be/6PldNSp3tpU To get access to more exclusive content and to join this evolving conversation, become a Rebel Wisdom member: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans You can listen to a podcast versions of our films on Spotify or Apple Podcasts by searching 'Rebel Wisdom' or download episodes from our Podbean page: https://rebelwisdom.podbean.com/ We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW

This is an audio version of Collective Intelligence Series: Introduction which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on September 3rd 2019.  For the last 18 months, Rebel Wisdom has been seeking out the most advanced, essential and rebellious thinkers and tracking an online 'intellectual awakening'. Many of these thinkers have independently come to the conclusion that a new form of collective intelligence is required to move forward. But what is collective intelligence, how do we use it, and why does it matter so much right now? This is the introduction to Rebel Wisdom's new series on Collective Intelligence. The other films in the series include a trialogue between Jordan (Green)Hall, Jamie Wheal and Daniel Schmachtenberger, 'Making Sense of Sensemaking' (Premiere on 4 September): https://youtu.be/0xSUw_QhJkc And Circling for Collective Intelligence, with founder of the conversational practice of Circling, Guy Sengstock (Coming Soon) Express your interest in the Rebel Wisdom Collective Intelligence Lab in London here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/r... To get access to more exclusive content and to join this evolving conversation, become a Rebel Wisdom member: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

This is an audio version of The revival of Stoicism, Jules Evans which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on July 25th 2019.  The ancient philosophy of Stoicism is undergoing a renaissance. Philosopher Jules Evans is partly responsible for that. In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller, he explains why, and outlines the link between Stoicism and modern therapies such as CBT, and why he describes it as a western form of Buddhism. This is a companion piece to our first, excellent, interview with Jules, 'Culture vs Ecstasy': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQhSp... To get access to more exclusive content, become a Rebel Wisdom subscriber: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We've also just launched the Rebel Wisdom store! Buy T Shirts and more on https://shop.rebelwisdom.co.uk We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW Check out Jules's blog and sign up for his excellent newsletter here: http://www.philosophyforlife.org/  

This is an audio version of Peter Levine: Polarisation and Trauma (Part 4 of 4) which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on August 27th 2019.  This is one of a series of films from Rebel Wisdom on the science and psychology of polarisation.  Peter Levine PhD is a transformational figure in the world of trauma and personal growth. His life's work, Somatic Experiencing, has influenced every area of counselling and coaching. It is also hugely important to understanding polarisation and conflict. To get access to more exclusive content, become a Rebel Wisdom member: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We've launched the Rebel Wisdom store! Buy T Shirts and more on https://shop.rebelwisdom.co.uk We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW

This is an audio version of Future Thinkers & Rebel Wisdom which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on July 7th 2019.  Both Future Thinkers and Rebel Wisdom have been following the thread of the emergent intellectual awakening online, and interviewing many of the same people. Where is this conversation going? What is the Intellectual Deep Web? This will also be available as a podcast on Future Thinkers. Check out their brilliant interviews here: https://futurethinkers.org/ To get access to more exclusive content, become a Rebel Wisdom subscriber: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We've also just launched the Rebel Wisdom store! Buy T Shirts and more on https://shop.rebelwisdom.co.uk We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW

This is an audio version of Vervaeke & (Green)Hall: Bullshit & Simulated Thinking which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on August 1st 2019.  This is the second 'explorations in meaning' conversation between Jordan (Green)Hall and John Vervaeke, a unique dialogue between two of the most pioneering thinkers we've featured on the channel. In this conversation they examine the similarities between Jordan's concept of 'simulated thinking', and John's work on 'bullshit', linking it to Joseph Tainter's work on system collapse. John Vervaeke is a professor of psychology at Toronto University and creator of the cult hit YouTube series 'Awakening from the Meaning Crisis'. Jordan Hall (formerly Greenhall) is a futurist and culture hacker.

This is an audio version of Jay Shapiro, the state of the Intellectual Dark Web which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on August 13th 2019.  Over a year since the 'Intellectual Dark Web' was announced, where is it at? Jay Shapiro is a filmmaker who made a celebrated documentary with two figures linked with the IDW, Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz. He talks with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller about their impressions of the trajectory of the IDW since it was first named. To get access to more exclusive content, become a Rebel Wisdom subscriber: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We've also just launched the Rebel Wisdom store! Buy T Shirts and more on https://shop.rebelwisdom.co.uk We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW

This is an audio version of The War on Sensemaking, Daniel Schmachtenberger which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on August 19th 2019.  What can we trust? Why is the 'information ecology' so damaged, and what would it take to make it healthy? This is a fundamental question, because without good sensemaking, we cannot even begin to act in the world. It is also a central concern in what many are calling the "meaning crisis", because what is meaningful is connected to what is real. Daniel Schmachtenberger is an evolutionary philosopher - his central interest is civilization design: developing new capacities for sense-making and choice-making, individually and collectively, to support conscious sustainable evolution. To get access to more exclusive content and to join this evolving conversation, become a Rebel Wisdom member: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW For more from Daniel, he blogs on these topics at https://civilizationemerging.com/ He’s also the director of Research and Development at Neurohacker Collective https://neurohacker.com/ethos

This is an audio version of Paul VanderKlay: Jordan Peterson and Christianity which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on July 17th 2018.  As requested by our Rebel Wisdom viewers, an interview with Paul VanderKlay, the Christian pastor from Sacramento, California, who has made a name for himself as one of the most intelligent and popular commentators on Jordan Peterson's thought, from a Christian perspective. Paul VanderKlay's Youtube channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGsD... Rebel Wisdom is a platform for the biggest ideas around. http://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/

This is an audio version of Michael Pollan: The Psychedelic Renaissance which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on June 14th 2018.  Michael Pollan is the author of a seminal new book on the science of psychedelic therapy, and the award-winning writer of bestsellers such as Cooked, and In Defence of Food. Does this mark a watershed moment in the mainstream acceptance of psychedelics? He sat down with Rebel Wisdom's founder - journalist David Fuller, during his visit to London. Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo... David Fuller's report on psychedelic therapy from 2008: https://vimeo.com/99877459 Rebel Wisdom is a new media platform asking the biggest questions: http://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/

This is an audio version of Jordan Greenhall: Reality Check which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on April 21st 2019.  In his viral hit after the Trump election 'Deep Code: Situational Assessment 2017', Jordan Greenhall sketched out a framework for understanding the nature of the deep shifts taking place below the surface of culture. In it, he framed the growing conflict as something closer to revolutionary war than politics as usual, with four distinct fronts. Now, over two years after that celebrated analysis, how are those predictions holding up, and what is the state of play? Original 2017 posting here: https://medium.com/deep-code/situatio... Jordan's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/jordangr... For an exclusive deep experimental members-only conversation between Jordan Greenhall, flow expert Jamie Wheal and futurist Daniel Schmachtenberger, become a Rebel Wisdom subscriber: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

This is an audio version of Gabor Mate: Psychedelic Therapy & Addicted to Ideology which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on November 16th 2018.  How can serious conditions such as depression, addiction and anxiety be successfully treated with psychedelic drugs? Psychedelics were used extensively in the 1950s and 60s for various conditions, until research stopped when the drugs were made illegal. Now there is a renaissance - Gabor Mate is an world famous expert on addiction and psychedelic therapies, and he talks to Rebel Wisdom about this renaissance. To get access to more exclusive content, become a Rebel Wisdom subscriber: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We've also just launched the Rebel Wisdom store! Buy T Shirts and more on https://shop.rebelwisdom.co.uk We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW

This is an audio version of Richard Tarnas: Western Culture: Death & Rebirth which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on October 29th 2018.  Richard Tarnas is known as one of the most influential and perceptive cultural historians of our time. In 'Passion of the Western Mind', he presented a vast overview of the history of western thought and culture, with predictions of where both were heading. On its release it was hailed as a masterpiece, allowing "readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture as if for the first time". Twenty-five years on from its release, the world has changed dramatically, how has his thought changed? And in a time of renewed interest in philosophy and big ideas, what does Richard Tarnas make of the rise of Jordan Peterson and the Intellectual Dark Web? The epilogue to Passion of the Western Mind is online here: http://www.gaiamind.com/Tarnas.html Rebel Wisdom is a platform for the biggest ideas around. http://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/ Rebel Wisdom is running workshops for men and women to get a direct experience of the ideas in our films: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/events 

This is an audio version of Robert Kegan: The Evolution of the Self which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on May 31st 2019.  Robert Kegan is one of the world's leading developmental psychologists. He was one of the early pioneers to describe how development and personal transformation does not stop at adolescence, but can continue throughout our lives. He talks with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller about his life's work - and how the growth of the individual maps onto the development of societies. To get access to more exclusive content, become a Rebel Wisdom subscriber: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We've also just launched the Rebel Wisdom store! Buy T Shirts and more on https://shop.rebelwisdom.co.uk We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW

This is an audio version of Jordan Greenhall: Genuine Conversation and the Intellectual Dark Web + The Paradox of the Times which were published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on October 11th 2018.  The phenomenon of the Intellectual Dark Web has shown how desperate people are for genuine conversation. What does genuine conversation look like and how can we enter into a space of creative flow where the right answers emerge? Jordan Greenhall has spent many years thinking about this 'meta-conversation', and how, in these polarised and partisan times, it may just save the world. He wrote the celebrated and viral 'Deep Code, Situational Assessment' post in the aftermath of the Trump election in 2017: https://medium.com/deep-code/situatio...  Rebel Wisdom is a new media platform asking the biggest questions: http://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/ To discuss the ideas in our films, join our Discord: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW  

This is an audio version of John Vervaeke: Jordan Peterson & the Meaning Crisis + Flow States and Wisdom which were published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on April 12th 2019.  John Vervaeke's recent series, 'Awakening From the Meaning Crisis' has won him a cult following online. He has joined the emergent intellectual awakening, looking for ways to bring together science, psychology and the world's wisdom traditions. A colleague of Jordan Peterson's in the University of Toronto Psychology Department, he specialises in Cognitive Science, Buddhism and also teaches Tai Chi and Mindfulness. He sat down to talk about his series, and where he thinks this emergent conversation is heading. Go and subscribe to John's channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpqD... To get access to more exclusive content, become a Rebel Wisdom subscriber: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans

This is an audio version of Deep Code: Jordan (Green)Hall Documentary which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on July 17th 2019.  If the next years are set to be some of the most challenging humanity has ever faced, how will we get through? Jordan Hall (formerly Greenhall) has a growing reputation as one of the most insightful cultural observers, explaining the 'Deep Code' of society and culture. In this definitive film, he explains how the structures of civilisation are breaking down at an increasing rate, and what we can do about it - and the necessary evolution we need to make to survive. Two full interviews with Jordan (total 2hrs 20 mins) are available for subscribers on www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans To get access to more exclusive content, become a Rebel Wisdom subscriber: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We've also just launched the Rebel Wisdom store! Buy T Shirts and more on https://shop.rebelwisdom.co.uk

This is an audio version of Stan Grof: The Depths of the Psyche which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on January 4th 2019.  What is the nature of the human psyche? How does spiritual experience relate to mental distress? And why does western culture have such a problem with ecstatic experience? In future years, Stan Grof will be seen as one of the most significant and revolutionary psychiatrists in history. Beginning with LSD therapy in the 1950s and 60s, he has explored the outer regions of the human psyche for decades, recording his progress in books such as 'When the Impossible Happens' and 'The Stormy Search for the Self'. He sat down with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller to talk through his work. For access to exclusive member-only content, and to join the conversation - become part of the Rebel Wisdom community - go to: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans You can also support us via bitcoin here: 3DGbLDVxcYe9QQqhUKhYEKs3oTGBVZsEZt Rebel Wisdom is a platform for the biggest ideas around. http://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/

This is an audio version of Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying: Having a real conversation & Gender Ideology vs Biology which were published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on February 8th 2019.    How do we have difficult conversations? Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying became the most high profile victims of campus activism, after they were driven out of Evergreen College in Washington State, USA. Recently they have become inaugural members of the so-called Intellectual Dark Web. The aim of the IDW is to have difficult conversations in public. In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller they explain how their experience at Evergreen has informed their understanding of 'thinking in public'.   For access to exclusive member-only content, and to join the conversation - become part of the Rebel Wisdom community - go to: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans   You can also support us via bitcoin here: 3DGbLDVxcYe9QQqhUKhYEKs3oTGBVZsEZt   Rebel Wisdom is a platform for the biggest ideas around. http://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/

This is an audio version of Heather Heying: From Evergreen to the Intellectual Dark Web & Toxic Femininity which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on January 9th 2019.  Until recently Heather Heying and her husband Bret Weinstein were teachers at Evergreen College, until they were targeted by a student mob and became the most high profile victims of campus militancy. They are now both members of the new constellation of internet personalities known as the Intellectual Dark Web (IDW). In this conversation with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller, Heather discusses her journey so far, why sex and gender are the hottest topics for the modern left and why there are so few other women in the IDW. Rebel Wisdom is a platform for the biggest ideas around: http://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/ Help us make more of these films and get access to excellent exclusive films for Patrons by supporting us on either Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rebelwisdom Or Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/rebel-w...    

This is an audio version of The Polyamorous Professors, Diana Fleischman & Geoffrey Miller which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on April 7th 2019.  The first exclusive joint interview with perhaps the most high profile polyamorous couple in academia. Diana Fleischman and Geoffrey Miller are both evolutionary psychologists, they make the case for why they believe it might be a new relationship model fit for the 21st century. Also see the previous interview with Geoffrey and Diana, 'Sex and Evolutionary Psychology': https://youtu.be/wv7meQsWT1c To get access to an exclusive extra interview with Geoffrey on the 'Neurodiversity Case for Free Speech', and much more exclusive content, become a Rebel Wisdom subscriber: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We've also just launched the Rebel Wisdom store! Buy T Shirts and more on https://shop.rebelwisdom.co.uk We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW

This is an audio version of Dave Rubin: Alternative Media Needs to Grow Up which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on May 4th 2019.  The loose affiliation of alternative media personalities called the Intellectual Dark Web was partly formed through appearances on the Rubin Report. Where is the IDW at now, where is it going, and is there a crossover point between alternative and mainstream media? And also - how does Dave Rubin answer the criticism that he is giving cover to some unpalatable characters on the right by framing them as less extreme than they actually are? To get access to more exclusive content, become a Rebel Wisdom subscriber: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We've also just launched the Rebel Wisdom store! Buy T Shirts and more on https://shop.rebelwisdom.co.uk We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW

This is an audio version of John Cleese: Philosophy, Spirituality & Political Correctness which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on June 12th 2019.  John Cleese is the legendary star of Monty Python & Fawlty Towers. He also has deep interests in philosophy and psychology. He is a friend of the historian Richard Tarnas, author of 'Passion of the Western Mind', who we featured on the channel last year: https://youtu.be/Ccle0QvH-Ds He is also a friend of Iain McGilchrist, author of 'The Master and His Emissary' whose revolutionary work we've featured on a number of occasions: https://youtu.be/fI1ngqwH5us We grabbed him for a quick half hour conversation about philosophy, spirituality and the recent media storm over his tweet (first made in 2011 and repeated last month) that London "was no longer an English city". To get access to more exclusive content, become a Rebel Wisdom subscriber: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We've also just launched the Rebel Wisdom store! Buy T Shirts and more on https://shop.rebelwisdom.co.uk We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW

This is an audio version of Jordan Peterson: 'Mysticism, Spirit and the Shadow' - part 1 & part 2 which were published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on January 3rd 2019.  Rebel Wisdom's exclusive interview with psychologist and professor Jordan Peterson - where he talks in depth about his understanding of mysticism, religion and the challenge of integrating the shadow. Rebel Wisdom is a new media organisation making films about the biggest subjects. For more: www.rebelwisdom.co.uk If you enjoyed this documentary, please consider supporting our work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rebelwisdom If you are in London - come to an exclusive screening of unseen material, and join an ongoing discussion group around Dr Peterson's ideas. For our full 50 minute documentary looking at the fundamentals of Jordan Peterson's thinking - see: https://youtu.be/L8msRcDxvAQ

This is an audio version of Jamie Wheal: Is the Psychedelic Renaissance Doomed? which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on April 25th 2019.  Jamie Wheal documented the new psychedelic renaissance in his bestselling book 'Stealing Fire', where he talked about the transformative potential of flow states and psychedelics. Since then he has become increasingly concerned and disillusioned with the direction of the psychedelic renaissance. This is one of a series of films by Rebel Wisdom on the psychedelic renaissance. For the introduction to the series - check here: https://youtu.be/gZDsdE174g4 The other films in the series are... 'Psychedelic Medicine?': https://youtu.be/9b1d-TprqEE 'Psychedelic Therapy' with Gabor Mate: https://youtu.be/d-47yL8EPAs To get access to more exclusive content, become a Rebel Wisdom subscriber: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We've also just launched the Rebel Wisdom store! Buy T Shirts and more on https://shop.rebelwisdom.co.uk

This is an audio version of Coleman Hughes: Success, Culture & Race which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on June 20th 2019.  Coleman Cruz Hughes writes on the topic of race for Quillette and the New York Times. Despite still being an undergraduate, studying philosophy at Colombia University, his articles have sparked polarised reactions, leading to a meteoric rise in profile over the last couple of years. On Tuesday 18th June, he gave evidence at the US congressional hearing about reparations for the legacy of slavery. In this discussion with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller, he explains what he makes of this newfound fame, and how much responsibility does he feel to use his words carefully on this explosive topic in America. To get access to more exclusive content, become a Rebel Wisdom subscriber: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We've also just launched the Rebel Wisdom store! Buy T Shirts and more on https://shop.rebelwisdom.co.uk

This is an audio version of John Vervaeke & Jordan Hall - Explorations in Meaning which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on June 7th 2019.    A unique conversation between two of the most pioneering thinkers we've featured on the channel. John Vervaeke is a professor of psychology at Toronto University and creator of the cult hit YouTube series 'Awakening from the Meaning Crisis'. Jordan Hall (formerly Greenhall) is a futurist and culture hacker. In this very meta conversation, they examine the meaning crisis, the nature of sensemaking and what they find compelling about each other's thought.   Relevant links: John Vervaeke, Jordan Peterson & the Meaning Crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6RFS...   John Vervaeke, Flow States and Wisdom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jS2A...   Reality Check 2019, Jordan Greenhall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLFFN...   If you enjoyed this - we have an amazing two and a half hour emergent conversation 'Making Sense of Sensemaking', between Jordan Hall, Jamie Wheal and Daniel Schmachtenberger - available for subscribers in the members area of our website: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans    

This is an audio version of Ken Wilber: Jordan Peterson & the Evolution of Thought which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on February 27th 2019.  Jordan Peterson has gone from an obscure Canadian academic to an intellectual megastar in a little over a year, and become one of the most polarising cultural figures. At the core, his philosophical project involves tying together mythology, religion and science into a 'theory of everything' that many are finding compelling. The Integral philosopher Ken Wilber did something similar in the 90s and 2000s, and built a large and passionate following. What does he make of Jordan Peterson's rise to fame? Where does he agree, and disagree with his philosophy? This is one of several films with Ken Wilber on Rebel Wisdom. To see the others, including: "The Intellectual Dark Web, an Integral Conversation?", and "Jordan Peterson & Sam Harris, the nature of Truth", as well as to get access to the entire uncut 4 hour interview, become a supporter: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans Supporters can also join the conversation, connect with other Rebellious Thinkers, and feed in questions for our next interviews. Ken Wilber and his team have created a series on Jordan Peterson & the Intellectual Dark Web: https://integrallife.com/whats-missin...

This is an audio version of Glitch in the Matrix II - The Origin of the Intellectual Dark Web which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on January 30th 2019.  The phrase 'Intellectual Dark Web' was first coined by mathematician Eric Weinstein in early 2018, it quickly spread. Was this just a chance remark, or was there a plan? This film explains how the creation of the Intellectual Dark Web was part of a long term strategy, and sketches out Eric's account of the history, and the future of the project. This is a Rebel Wisdom Documentary, to help us make more, to see exclusive subscriber-only films and join the conversation, please consider becoming a supporter on www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We are also announcing the Rebel Wisdom Summit - our largest event yet, in London on May 12, with Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying, Iain McGilchrist and Jordan Greenhall, more details here: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/summit Some of these topics were sketched out in greater detail by Eric Weinstein on Edge.org. Kayfabe: https://www.edge.org/response-detail/... War on Excellence: https://www.edge.org/response-detail/... Russell Conjugation: https://www.edge.org/response-detail/...

This is an audio version of Where Gillette Went Wrong which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on January 16th 2019.    Gillette's newest ad, 'The Best a Man Can Be', has created a social media firestorm in the last few days. We sat down to discuss the reaction, the cultural context behind it and our response to the ad. Drawing on our interviews with Warren Farrell, Cassie Jaye and our experience leading men's retreats, we ask whether the ad is helping men or toxic in and of itself.   We recently had an article in the Guardian about our men's retreats: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandst... Our retreats: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/retreats Gillette 'The Best a Man Can Be': https://youtu.be/koPmuEyP3a0 Warren Farrell ,'Men Have to Speak Up!': https://youtu.be/BC5Cq8Qgy_o Warren Farrell, 'Men and Women after #metoo': https://youtu.be/ESiyb28fTQ4 'Men and Women after #metoo - A New Conversation': https://youtu.be/9CizXBr91Js APA masculinity guidelines: https://www.apa.org/about/policy/boys... APA's clarification on masculinity guidelines: http://division51.net/homepage-slider... We're leaving Patreon, so to help us make more films and get access to exclusive content, become a Rebel Wisdom member here: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans    

This is an audio version of Eric Weinstein - Inside the Intellectual Dark Web which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on December 12th 2018.  Eric Weinstein coined the term 'The Intellectual Dark Web', to describe a group of heterodox thinkers who have risen to prominence on the web. It includes Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, Joe Rogan, Dave Rubin, Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying, Douglas Murray and others. In this interview with David Fuller of Rebel Wisdom he explains the purpose and genesis of the IDW, and how the growth of a new ideological worldview has made it necessary. Rebel Wisdom is a platform for the biggest ideas around. http://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/ Help us make more of these films and get access to excellent exclusive films for Patrons by supporting us on either Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rebelwisdom Or Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/rebel-w...  

This is an audio version of Bret Weinstein - Richard Dawkins post-debate exclusive which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on November 29th 2018.  What kind of creatures are we? The video has just been published from the long-awaited discussion between evolutionary biologists Richard Dawkins and Bret Weinstein in Chicago in October. In it, they explore vital disagreements about key issues in evolution, in particular the role of belief structures such as religion. Dawkins famously describes them as 'mind viruses' while Weinstein claims that this is not the case. Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller sat down with Bret Weinstein to discuss the debate and its fundamental importance to our understanding of human evolution. Full debate online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYzU-... To see Bret's analysis of his proposed debate with David Sloan Wilson, head over to his Patreon channel: https://www.patreon.com/bretweinstein... Just uploaded - another interview with Bret Weinstein, 'Jordan Peterson, gender and ideology' - https://youtu.be/qR5yN2G4h54 Rebel Wisdom is a platform for the biggest ideas around. http://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/ Help us make more of these films and get access to excellent exclusive films for Patrons by supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rebelwisdom Find us on iTunes and Spotify, or visit rebelwisdom.podbean.com to download Rebel Wisdom as an audio podcast. Clip used from Pangburn Philosophy, credited under fair usage rules.

This is an audio version of Gabor Maté - Addicted to Ideology? which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on November 16th 2019.  Can we be addicted to ideology? Gabor Maté is an world famous expert on addiction - in his book 'In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts' he talks about how addiction is best viewed not as a crime or illness but as a coping mechanism for a personal, spiritual crisis. In this exclusive interview with Rebel Wisdom he talks about how social media has created a whole new area for addictive behaviour, how traumatised leaders have created unhealthy societies and what he makes of the internet sensation and fellow Canadian intellectual Jordan Peterson. To see the second part of the interview, 'Addiction and psychedelic therapy', and many other great films, become a Rebel Wisdom patron: https://www.patreon.com/rebelwisdom Gabor Maté's book 'In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts' has just been released in the UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Realm-Hungry... The next instalment of 'Rebel Wisdom Live' will be 'Divided Brain, Divided World' with Iain McGilchrist in London on November 20th at 7pm GMT. We will be live streaming, and if you want to attend in person visit https://www.tickettailor.com/events/r... Rebel Wisdom is a platform for the biggest ideas around. http://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/

This is an audio version of Richard Tarnas - Western Culture, Death & Rebirth which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on October 29th 2018.  Richard Tarnas is known as one of the most influential and perceptive cultural historians of our time. In 'Passion of the Western Mind', he presented a vast overview of the history of western thought and culture, with predictions of where both were heading. On its release it was hailed as a masterpiece, allowing "readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture as if for the first time". Twenty-five years on from its release, the world has changed dramatically, how has his thought changed? And in a time of renewed interest in philosophy and big ideas, what does Richard Tarnas make of the rise of Jordan Peterson and the Intellectual Dark Web? The epilogue to Passion of the Western Mind is online here: http://www.gaiamind.com/Tarnas.html Rebel Wisdom is a platform for the biggest ideas around. http://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/ Rebel Wisdom is running workshops for men and women to get a direct experience of the ideas in our films: https://rebelwisdom.co.uk/events To help us make more of these films, please consider becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/rebelwisdom

This is an audio version of Men and Women after metoo - The Female Shadow which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on October 23rd 2018.  Earlier this summer, a group of women released a film where they apologised to men for how they had treated them. The film went viral, with hundreds of thousands of views. It also sparked polarised reactions - both for and against: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwKLT... The creator of the film was conflict resolution expert Dr Hanna Milling. Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller sat down with Hanna, and contributors to the film Ilan Stefani and Stefana Bosse to ask them about the process of making the film and the reaction it has created. In the film, Dr Milling called for a new dialogue between men and women. Hanna, David, Ilan and therapist Rafia Morgan attempted a new form of conversation: https://youtu.be/9CizXBr91Js This is part of a series, 'Men and Women After #Metoo', which includes an exclusive interview with Warren Farrell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESiyb... Rebel Wisdom is a new media platform asking the biggest questions: http://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/ We also run events for men and women to experience directly what we discuss in our films: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/events To discuss the ideas in our films, join our Discord: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW To see more great films, and to help us make more, please consider becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/rebelwisdom

This is an audio version of Douglas Murray - Cultural crisis and the Intellectual Dark Web which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on October 5th 2018.  In Douglas Murray's recent bestseller, The Strange Death of Europe, he diagnoses a widespread cultural crisis in Europe, a continent that has fundamentally lost faith in itself. He is also part of the new loose grouping of public intellectuals known as the 'Intellectual Dark Web'. This interview with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller covers his disgnosis of western culture, the aims of the Intellectual Dark Web and his reflections on the recent high profile live events between himself, Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson. Strange Death of Europe: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Strange-Deat... Rebel Wisdom is a media platform founded on the conviction that we are seeing an ongoing and growing civilisational crisis, and the old operating systems break down. We can no longer trust the traditional media to make sense of the world. The old gatekeepers are losing their power. A new counter culture is filling the void, driven by a great intellectual awakening. https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk To have early access to the second part of this interview, "I wish I was wrong about The Strange Death of Europe", and to help us make more of these films please consider becoming a Rebel Wisdom Patron: https://www.patreon.com/rebelwisdom

This is an audio version of Warren Farrell - Men and Women after #metoo which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on September 13th 2018.  If the cultural conversation looks increasingly like a dysfunctional relationship between men and women, how can we move forward? This is the third in a series of films on 'Men and Women after #metoo' from Rebel Wisdom. Warren Farrell has a unique perspective, from being one of the most high profile feminists in the 1970s, before writing a series of books that led to him being described as the 'father of the men's movement'. Now he leads couples counselling - helping women and men to listen to and understand each other. Part 1 of 'Men and Women after #metoo' is our podcast where we discuss the issues raised by these films in depth: https://youtu.be/1MdjtBp_BS8 Part 2 is an exclusive interview with the director of the sleeper hit on the Men's Rights movement, the Red Pill Movie, Cassie Jaye, here: https://youtu.be/9uaCljuywkY To see the second part of the interview with Warren Farrell - "Men need to speak up!", please support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/rebelwisdom

This is an audio version of My 'Red Pill' Suicide Mission with director Cassie Jaye which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on September 12th 2018.  If the cultural conversation looks increasingly like a dysfunctional relationship between men and women, how can we move forward? This is the second in a series of three films on 'Men and Women after #metoo' from Rebel Wisdom. The Red Pill Movie was a sleeper documentary hit about the Men's Rights Movement in the USA. Despite some very negative reviews from mainstream publications, it became one of the most popular documentaries of the last few years. It was subtitled, 'A feminist goes inside the Men's Rights Movement', and the director Cassie Jaye describes herself as a liberal. What does the reaction to it say about the cultural conversation, and how authentic was the film? Rebel Wisdom talks to Cassie Jaye. Part 1 of 'Men and Women after #metoo' is our podcast where we discuss the issues raised by these films in depth: https://youtu.be/1MdjtBp_BS8 Part 3 is an exclusive interview with the former feminist leader and 'father of the Men's Rights movement', Warren Farrell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESiyb... You can view the Red Pill Movie trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLzea... Or rent the film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mB13...

If the cultural conversation looks increasingly like a dysfunctional relationship between men and women, how can we move forward? This podcast is the first in a series of films on the subject from Rebel Wisdom - 'Men and Women after #metoo, a new relationship?' - including exclusive interviews with the director of the Red Pill Movie, Cassie Jaye, and the man known as the father of the men's movement, Warren Farrell. You can watch these on YouTube or listen to them as a podcast.  Part 2: Interview with Cassie Jaye here: https://youtu.be/9uaCljuywkY Part 3: Warren Farrell interview here: https://youtu.be/ESiyb28fTQ4 To help us make more content like this, please consider becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/rebelwisdom

In this latest Rebel Wisdom podcast, Ali and David discuss the topic of the Shadow, and the recent viral success, and polarised response to our interview with Zen Master Doshin Michael Nelson. Get tickets for our London event 'Join the Great Intellectual Awakening' on 18 September here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/r... Find us on iTunes and Spotify, or visit rebelwisdom.podbean.com to download Rebel Wisdom as an audio podcast. To help us make more of these films, please consider becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/rebelwisdom Relevant links: 'A Zen Master Talks about Jordan Peterson & the Shadow': https://youtu.be/ABWeA203Q-c 'Jordan Peterson & The Left' series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Join the conversation on the Rebel Wisdom Discord chat: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW Read more about what we're doing on http://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/

This is an audio version of A Zen Master Talks about Jordan Peterson & The Shadow which was published on the Rebel Wisdom YouTube site on August 12th 2018.  Doshin Nelson Roshi describes himself as poet, troublemaker, and teacher. He is the head abbot of Integral Zen - an expert in both the tradition of Zen and the Integral philosophy of Ken Wilber. https://integralzen.org/about/teachers/ In this discussion with David Fuller of Rebel Wisdom, they explore the cultural phenomenon of Jordan Peterson and what his runaway success says about the intense times we are living in - and try to identify the cultural forces moving below the surface, and the necessity to integrate the shadow. Rebel Wisdom is a new media channel making films about the biggest ideas - the spearhead of a new counterculture. If you enjoy our films, please consider helping us make more by funding us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rebelwisdom

Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller made the first documentary about Jordan Peterson in January, since then he has become one of the polarising public figures in the world, especially to those on the left of the political spectrum. In a new interview - and accompanying podcast, David Fuller and Alexander Beiner of Rebel Wisdom examine the crisis on the left, through the prism of Jordan Peterson's thought. Rebel Wisdom Discord Chat: https://discord.gg/rJtyfFV This film is part of a larger Rebel Wisdom series, "Jordan Peterson and the left, a new conversation". The other films are as follows. 'Jordan Peterson, censorship and the left', with novelist Tim Lott: https://youtu.be/yRmvzqc8BkU 'What can the left learn from Jordan Peterson', with Matthew Segall and Jesse Estrin from the California Institute of Integral Studies: https://youtu.be/jwMxmg83aUw 'Jordan Peterson and Integral Theory', with Jeff Salzman of the Daily Evolver: https://youtu.be/hfJbrS75_Gs 'Jordan Peterson and the patriarchy', with Lene Andersen: https://youtu.be/dvyo1w5Ff_A 'Beyond polarisation?' The left & Jordan Peterson, with Ronan Harrington, Alter Ego: https://youtu.be/t6Fwhs3HBGE If you enjoy our films, please consider helping us make more by funding us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rebelwisdom

In our first Q&A, we answer a series of insightful audience questions on a wide range of topics.  To add your voice to the discussion, join us on the Rebel Wisdom Discord group here: https://discord.gg/rJtyfFV If you'd like to help us produce more content like this, consider supporting us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/rebelwisdom Watch this podcast in video format on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/c/rebelwisdom

This podcast features brand new content from our recent interview with Jordan Peterson. Using parts of it as a jumping off point, David and Alexander discuss the Sam Harris / Jordan Peterson events and analyse the most recent debate to explore the tensions between scientism, religious revelation and politics. We also introduce our theme for next week, 'What the Left can learn from Peterson', discuss the Intellectual Dark Web, and give some updates on the content coming up from our recent trip to the US. Useful links:  'Jordan Peterson: Truth in the Time of Chaos': https://youtu.be/EjqXXengN1s Jordan Peterson & Christianity with Paul VanderKlay: https://youtu.be/o1OMqErdDGk Rebel Wisdom is a platform for the biggest ideas around. http://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/ To help us make more of these films, please consider sponsoring us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rebelwisdom

Rebel Wisdom's first overseas adventure - David and Alexander outline RW's plans for future interviews and documentaries - and take the opportunity to explore the new psychedelic renaissance, just half a mile from the centrepoint of the 60s counterculture, San Francisco's Haight Ashbury. Psychedelics are having a mainstream breakthrough, what next? Can they still break people out of ideological possession and perform the deconditioning role they played in the 1960s? What are the benefits and dangers? Useful links Our interview with Michael Pollan: https://youtu.be/AR_jXm195Xs Our interview with Jamie Wheal: https://youtu.be/a1eXSvl5rn8 Rebel Wisdom is a platform for the biggest ideas around. http://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/ To help us make more of these films, please consider sponsoring us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rebelwisdom

Last month, a new alignment of public intellectuals, the "Intellectual Dark Web", was officially announced. Rebel Wisdom was quick to recognise the significance of this new movement, featuring it in our 'Glitch in the Matrix' film in February. In the latest edition of the Rebel Wisdom podcast, David Fuller and Alexander Beiner take a closer look at the IDW, and explain what it means, and where it might be heading - as a potential 'great awakening' and intellectual synthesis. For a video version, visit our YouTube channel This podcast accompanies a new article from Andrew Sweeny, the Intellectual Deep Web: https://medium.com/rebel-wisdom/an-in... --- Relevant links: Rebel Wisdom Podcast 1 - why the obsession with Jordan Peterson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDxl1... Rebel Wisdom Podcast 3 - the Peterson synthesis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMM7r... The Rubin Report, Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro: Frontline of Free Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRPDG... The Rubin Report, Bret and Eric Weinstein, Brothers Together at Last: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmXq9... "A Glitch in the Matrix" - Jordan Peterson, the Intellectual Dark Web & the Mainstream Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trhTb... If you like what you've heard, please consider supporting us on Patreon

In our last podcast, Rebel Wisdom put forward some constructive criticisms of Jordan Peterson's thought and tactics. In this edition we address some of the feedback and comments from that edition, and look to what a deeper synthesis of some of the cultural dynamics and perspectives he is bringing might be. For a video version, visit our YouTube channel This video is to go alongside the Medium article from David Fuller "The Peterson Synthesis, criticism and completion": https://medium.com/rebel-wisdom/the-p... The full interview with Louise Mazanti, "Men and women after #metoo, a new conversation" is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tUiz... More useful links: 'Jordan Peterson, Truth in the Time of Chaos': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjqXX... 'Glitch in the Matrix': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trhTb... Rebel Wisdom is a new media platform asking the biggest questions: http://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/ Twitter: @wisdomrebel If you like what we are doing, please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/rebelwisdom

How is it that a man who talks about overcoming polarisation has become the most polarising figure in the intellectual landscape? An attempt at a constructive criticism of Jordan Peterson from Rebel Wisdom, who have made the only two full length documentaries about JBP. For a video version, visit our YouTube channel This video is to go alongside the Medium article from David Fuller "The Peterson Paradox, or, It's not enough to be right if people stop listening": https://medium.com/rebel-wisdom/the-p... More useful links: Bret Weinstein and Jamie Wheal discuss Evolution, the Intellectual Dark Web and the future of humanity: https://youtu.be/KigJ5rn-4yE 'Jordan Peterson, Truth in the Time of Chaos': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjqXX... 'Glitch in the Matrix': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trhTb... Rebel Wisdom is a new media platform asking the biggest questions: http://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/ If you like what we are doing, please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/rebelwisdom

Rebel Wisdom is a new media platform with big ambitions, pushing forward the leading edge of the new counterculture. We find the most revolutionary thinkers and use their ideas to explain the deeper patterns playing out behind the turmoil of the times. We also run workshops for men to put these ideas into action in our lives. In this inaugural Rebel Wisdom podcast, founder David Fuller and co-founder Alexander Beiner discuss where the project came from, what it's about and our grandiose plans for the future. For a video version, visit our YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/c/rebelwisdom  For more information on us, visit http://rebelwisdom.co.uk If you like the sound of this and can help us to continue this- please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rebelwisdom