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Alexander Beiner is the writer who volunteered as a guinea pig for the world's first extended-state DMT trial. At Imperial College London, he was one of eleven people kept on a continuous DMT drip for thirty minutes. He is a co-Executive Director of Breaking Convention, Europe's largest psychedelic conference, and the author of The Bigger Picture.
Expect to learn
- The Chinchillas: hyperdimensional beings he had never seen in real life, speaking a visible language
- The Reply: he sent a symbol back, they went ballistic, then got bored and left
- The Pharmacology Problem: why tolerance to LSD and psilocybin does nothing to DMT
- The Synchronicity: the stranger across a London road, and what he learned that night
- The Spider Queen: a planet-sized entity that wrapped him in a web
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GS EPISODES MENTIONED
Rick Strassman - Meet The Father Of Modern DMT Research: https://youtu.be/KeAZOj7tYsc
Robin Carhart-Harris - No. 1 Psychedelic Scientist: The Entropic Brain Hypothesis, Consciousness & DMT Entities: https://youtu.be/t-GkE4YtLRk
David Luke - Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness - DMT Entities, Telepathy Tapes & OBE's: https://youtu.be/qLKD1gt1X5o
GUEST LINKS
X: https://x.com/AlexanderBeiner
Kainos (Substack): https://beiner.substack.com/
Personal Site: https://www.alexanderbeiner.com/
Breaking Convention: https://breakingconvention.co.uk/performers/alexander-beiner
The Bigger Picture - Author Page: https://www.penguin.com.au/authors/alexander-beiner
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00:00 Trailer
0:01:59 Why Changing Minds Isn't Enough
0:02:54 A Magic Mushroom Homecoming In Holland
0:05:33 Joining Europe's Largest Psychedelic Conference
0:06:44 Why He Signed Up To Be A DMT Guinea Pig
0:08:03 Half Of DMT Users Meet Autonomous Entities
0:10:38 Meeting The Hyperdimensional Chinchillas
0:14:25 He'd Never Seen A Chinchilla In Real Life
0:15:14 "They Were Speaking A Visible Language"
0:17:47 Why Priming Can't Explain The Chinchillas
0:21:33 The Metaphysical Shift After 100 Episodes
0:26:21 DMT Immunity And The Cross-Tolerance Mystery
0:28:07 Why Psychedelics Make Avoiding Pain Harder
0:29:28 The Placebo Dose And The Prank Paranoia
0:32:24 Three Heartbeats To The Deepest Trip
0:35:06 Wired Up: The Hidden Rituals Of The Lab
0:39:29 Would He Ever Come Back?
0:40:22 Psychedelic PTSD And The Fear Of Madness
0:41:31 The Synchronicity He Still Can't Explain
0:46:37 If Everything's Conscious, Where's The Telepathy?
0:49:16 Why The East Talks Openly About Ghosts
0:53:45 The Planet-Sized Spider Queen
0:58:51 "This Is So Similar To What McKenna Described"
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