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The Bigger Picture
- How Psychedelics Can Help Us Make Sense of the World
- Narrated by: Alexander Beiner
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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Summary
Can psychedelic drugs help us tackle the biggest problems we face globally? Can they heal the cultural, spiritual, and political wounds we’re wrestling with?
Psychedelics have hit the mainstream as powerful new mental health treatments. But as clinicians explore what these molecules can do for our individual minds, The Bigger Picture goes further to illuminate how psychedelics can help us find new ways to make sense of and come through the crises we face around the world.
Drawing on the latest research, as well as his unique experience as a participant in a ground-breaking clinical trial investigating the potent psychedelic DMT, Alexander Beiner reveals:
- the role of psychedelics in addressing global issues such as global warming, geopolitical instability, and political polarization
- the dark side of the ‘psychedelic renaissance’ and ‘psychedelic capitalism’
- what it takes to elicit huge personal and cultural transformation through psychedelics
Embark on a journey into The Bigger Picture–a new era of science and spirituality with the potential to radically transform our perceptions of ourselves, one another, and our life on this planet.
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- Mr Stefan Chmelik
- 05-03-24
Excellent guide to changing your perspective
This book from Alexander Beiner is an excellent guide to helping you to change your perspective. It manages to be both practical and with enough referencing should you wish to explore further.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-01-24
Great book
I have listened to a lot of book on this subject and this was by far the best one. A very well-informed and broad-minded outlook on psychedelics, how they relate to cultural theory, therapy, indigenous practices, and how they inform our responses to current affairs and recent political climate. Super interesting!
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- Nicola
- 26-06-23
Superb crafting and informative
This picture is all encompassing and draws together a wealth of information including our great thinkers of today. An excellent balance of the experiential, and the facts and reality of our options for exploring our unconscious and other worldly states. Brilliantly delivered. A must read as part of our 21st century education.
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- J
- 15-09-23
calm, comprehensive, compelling
Alex delivers his story in a calm and collected way. It's clear he has digested his experiences before attempting to present them. There is no fevered attempt to 'convert' or convince the reader of any viewpoint.
There is a wealth of research tied in to his points in relevant and intelligent ways. His sources are wide ranging, scientists, psychology experts , philosophers and teachers, both alive now and in recent history to ancient sources and religious practices.
His fascination grew over me as I listened through. I actually took a break half way to integrate some of the welling wonder inside myself, taking long walks in nature and through my mind.
I could trust very well what he was saying , at no point did he force his experiences or views in to solid certainty. When many aspects of what he described resonated with things I already knew, and some things I felt I knew but hadn't touched with my mind yet or at least not for a long time.
My concluding sentiment was gratitude. This work turns me on to the wider universe out there and simultaneously in myself.
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- Mrs. Francesca Diebschlag
- 10-12-23
I want everyone to read this book
I want everyone -- but especially those nearest and dearest to me -- to read this book. It is a refreshingly well-informed, balanced and nuanced overview of psychedelics, within the context of our complex and dysfunctional human societies and the existential threats to the even more complex networks of life on which all our lives depend.
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- michele a
- 19-06-23
Elegant and engaging, AB asks all the right questions!
I have been waiting for this book to be written! The performance and narration is engaging and flows beautifully, keeping the listeners' attention as he tackles huge concepts, drops influential ideas and with glittering prose, describes the ineffable. The author/narrator gets his ego out the way as he asks really important questions about where we go from here, how to navigate the challenging realities of society and social media, the importance of coherently putting our minds towards whole planetary solutions as climate change and moral polarisation bears down on us. He offers practicable tools, gleaned from experience as a psychonaut and compassionate, inquisitive mind, and gives insight into cutting-edge research in psychedelics, ethics and philosophy. I particularly enjoyed his descriptions of entities and visions experienced as a subject of the DMTX experiment at Imperial College. A must-read for both initiates and experienced psychonauts and anyone interested in positive pathways forward through the cacophony of the modern digital world.
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- Anonymous User
- 30-06-23
transcendent and transformative!
this really is vital reading for the times we are living in! a genius work of synthesis which invites us all to do the work that psychedelics lays before us to overcome the “big crisis” we all face. i leave this book feeling implored to take the first step. thank you alexander beiner!
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- GRIOGAIR
- 16-12-23
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such a great listen and a lot of very interesting points made I need 3 words
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