EXO Institute

Performance begins – 8:00pm

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“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”

– ALBERT EINSTEIN

Climate disruption, conflict, geopolitical tension, technological acceleration, and social fragmentation … we talk about them as separate problems. But they aren’t. They’re deeply interconnected – symptoms of systems – and mindsets – pushed to their limits. We need a new way of thinking – a new science – that can help us see these challenges differently. Because only then can we begin to solve them. Please join us for the launch of EXO Institute, an evening for the curious and open-minded.

EXO exists to convene that important conversation: rigorously, responsibly, and without dogma. Our aim is not to offer easy answers, but to ask better questions—and to explore whether a more complete understanding of reality might help us move beyond the cycles of fear, fragmentation and short-term thinking that define the current moment. Nick Cook, James Hersov, and Siân Sutherland, co-founders of EXO will be joined on stage by extraordinary experts for this interactive evening.

Lee Berger is a paleoanthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. He is best known for his discoveries of  Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi, recognized as two of the most significant discoveries ever in this field. Lee argues that H naledi provides some of the earliest evidence of intentional burials, the controlled use of fire and primitive rock engravings – a non-human species, contemporaneous with early Homo sapiens, with a “culture”.  

Dr David Erritzoe is a Clinical Reader in Psychopharmacology and Psychiatry in Imperial College’s Centre Psychedelic Research where he is also the Clinical Director. Since 2009 he has led psychopharmacological and clinical research into the effects and brain mechanisms of mood disorders and addictions, often with a focus on the effects of psychedelic compounds.

Jude Currivan is a cosmologist, futurist, and author, and previously one of the most senior businesswomen in the UK. She has a Master’s in Physics from Oxford University specialising in quantum physics and cosmology and speaks widely on consciousness, emerging perspectives on reality and their developing impact on transformational global reforms.

Helen McCaw is an economist and former senior analyst at the Bank of England. On 16^th January, the Times published a major article on her analysis of the financial impact likely caused by official disclosure of government knowledge of the existence of extraterrestrials and UAP – unidentified anomalous phenomena. 

Topics explored, with a grounded, evidence-led lens, will include:
• Consciousness and the science of mind
• Artificial intelligence and emergent intelligence 
• Quantum insights into the nature of reality
• Psychedelic research and altered states