The Bigger Picture Newsletter

3 weeks ago | beiner.substack.com | Alexander Beiner

Nora Bateson is joining Sensemaking 102! The course begins on June 11th. My London event with Josh Schrei on June 17th has just five tickets left. Want to host one of the 50+ global screenings of Leviathan this month? Let us know on this form. She’s beautiful. Flawless, actually. Guests hang on her every word, reaching for her as she drifts by. She moves through the party like a dancer, graceful, poised. The sun is warm on her skin and the air is fresh and she wants for nothing. Wait. Who’s that?

1 month ago | beiner.substack.com | Alexander Beiner

“The deeper the despair, the more intense the hope. That is the dialectic of hope. The negativity of despair deepens hope. The higher hope soars, the deeper its roots. In this, it differs from optimism. Optimism lacks negativity. Amid deep despair, absolute hope makes action possible again. Absolute hope involves an unshakeable belief that there is a sense in things. It is only this belief in sense that gives us orientation and puts us on a sure footing.” - Byung-Chul Han, The Spirit of Hope.

1 month ago | beiner.substack.com | Alexander Beiner |Iain McGilchrist

Journey into the deep code of culture in our new online course: Sensemaking 102. Expand your view on what’s happening and why with the help of an amazing faculty and new practices. Connect with like-minded travellers to inquire, question, and embody. Myth. Power. Economics. Tech. Systems. Meaning. Register on studiokainos.com/sensemaking-102What matters most, what we do or how we do it? Which is more real, a relationship or a rock?

1 month ago | beiner.substack.com | Alexander Beiner

We’re in unknown territory. The decade ahead of us is a chaotic landscape where weird is the new normal. AI Superintelligence pushing against radical political upheaval, while resurgent nationalism and environmental tipping points merge with strange new religions and flights to Mars. It’s a wild time to be alive. The certainties we’ve relied on to find collective solutions are dying at a rapid rate.

1 month ago | beiner.substack.com | Alexander Beiner

I’m running a special event with Josh Schrei of The Emerald in London on June 17. It's already 60% sold two days after launch, so book soon if you want to come! I’m also running a one day retreat on May 17 in London with my friend Clive Selwyn called Polarity and Partnership, an embodied process exploring healthy polarity between the sexes. If you want to host a screening of the first Kainos documentary ‘Crossroads’ for your friends or community in June, let us know through this form. Immigration.