Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost Its Mind

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I listed the glossary as a "pro". The other side of the coin on that is that for me, the author's choice to use esoteric terms where more commonly used and understood terms could be used increases the amount of work needed to fully get what is being said.

The Conformist tends to defer to established authority regarding which ecstatic practices to follow. They might willingly have their child on a methamphetamine for ADD, but consider psychedelic therapy frightening. Compliance is their Achilles’ heel. Steering (out of the ruts of consensus opinion) is their missing link. How will we manage to seed this revolution and create Meaning 3.0? By paying closer attention to our bodies. We house an impressive array of bio-psycho-social technologies, if we only know where to look! And what are these open-source, scalable, anti-fragile technologies? Respiration, embodiment, sexuality, substances, and music supporting inspiration, healing, and connection. To recap: A viable candidate for Meaning 3.0 will need to fulfill the pro-social functions of traditional 1.0 Faith—Inspiration, Healing, and Connection. And, to stand a chance of helping the world, it needs to fulfill the inclusive promise of 2.0 Modernism, and be Open Source, Scalable, and Anti-fragile. But the next part of our Cinderella story is completely up for grabs. We have the chance to write the next chapter. The Collapse of Meaning

We can remember who we are through sublime peak experience, we can mend our broken parts through cathartic healing, and we can choose to connect–as couples, communities and citizens. In this book, he first outlines the current state of the world and the need for a change, coined 'choose your own apocalypse, he then hands you the manual to assessing peak states, the 'alchemists cookbook' and finally offers ways in which we can build communities around access to these states in a healthy and open way, 'ethical cult building'. The middle section, The Alchemist Cookbook, applies the creative firm IDEO’s design thinking to the Meaning Crisis. This is where the book gets hands on--taking a look at the strongest evolutionary drivers that can bring about inspiration, healing, and connection. From breathing, to movement, sexuality, music, and substances--these are the everyday tools to help us wake up, grow up, and show up. AKA--how to blow yourself sky high with household materials. And the best part? They’re accessible, by anyone anywhere, no middleman required. Transcendence democratized. This book is divided into three parts. The first, Choose Your Own Apocalypse, takes a look at our current Meaning Crisis--where we are today, why it’s so hard to make sense of the world, what might be coming next, and what to do about it. It also makes a case that many of our efforts to cope, whether anxiety and denial, or tribalism and identity politics, are likely making things worse. EMBODIMENT: pain and suffering have an ancient relationship to healing and people have been decoupling what they feel physically from what they experience emotionally. Humans are unique in being able to hot-wire pain to experience pleasure and healing. While we cannot manage the amount of pain that we are subjected to in life, we can choose to meet pain on purpose and with intention, and it’s this that appears to be the key. As much as we might dance around it, or seek to repress out core physicality, it is an essential and unavoidable part of the human experience.

AKA Carbogen - test given to individuals prior to psychedelic psychotherapy to determine whether or not the patient would react poorly No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War is a spiritual war, our Great Depression is our lives.” Animals can be trained to self-harm to get a reward but only with positive reinforcement like food. “Generally, when an animal experiences something negative, it avoids it” We appear to be unique in the animal kingdom in discovering you can hot-wire pain to experience pleasure and even healing.’ Meaning 1.0 was all about salvation for the faithful. Religion has always promised inspiration, healing and connection – but it did so while raising up a select group of followers who deserved such benefits, while punishing the nonbelievers. This book is divided into three parts. The first, Choose Your Own Apocalypse, takes a look at our current Meaning Crisis--where we are today, why it’s so hard to make sense of the world, what might be coming next, and what to do about it. It also makes a case that many of our efforts to cope, whether anxiety and denial, or tribalism and identity politics, are likely making things worse.Meaning 2.0: Classical liberalism and secularism. The idea was that markets, democracy, and civil rights would bring us into a world where everyone is entitled to a fair shot at the good life. This book is divided into three parts. The first, Choose Your Own Apocalypse, takes a look at our current meaning crisis - where we are today, why it’s so hard to make sense of the world, what might be coming next, and what to do about it. It also makes a case that many of our efforts to cope, whether anxiety and denial, or tribalism and identity politics, are likely making things worse. PDF / EPUB File Name: Recapture_the_Rapture_Rethinking_God_Sex_and_Death_In_a_World_Thats_Lost_Its_Mind_-_Jamie_Wheal.pdf, Recapture_the_Rapture_Rethinking_God_Sex_and_Death_In_a_World_Thats_Lost_Its_Mind_-_Jamie_Wheal.epub

The middle section, The Alchemist Cookbook, applies the creative firm IDEO’s design thinking to the Meaning Crisis. This is where the book gets hands on--taking a look at the strongest evolutionary drivers that can bring about inspiration, healing, and connection. From breathing, to movement, sexuality, music, and substances--these are the everyday tools to help us wake up, grow up, and show up. AKA--how to blow yourself sky high with household materials. And the best part? They’re accessible, by anyone anywhere, no middleman required. Transcendence democratized. The Purist tends to prefer the “earned wisdom” of meditation, yoga, and prayer to the more volatile approaches. Wheatgrass and elixirs are their substances of choice. Their catchphrase is “my body is my temple.” Pride is their Achilles’ heel. Gas (to accelerate their growth) is their missing link. Lisa Feldman Barret, has dismantled much of neuropsychology with her theory of constructed emotions… These researchers and hundreds of others are giving both proof and permission for us to reconnect our bodies to our brains.” Towards our “uniqueness”, dozens of animals mate for life. According to prof Robert Sapolsky, some monkeys physically mimic being fertile to don’t carry a child they don’t want (I couldn’t find the reference. It was in the Human Behavioral Biology course). Bonobos have about 75% of their sex for fun, not sometimes, as he mentions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOY3Q...Meaning 2.0 = modern capitalist / democratic societies, salvation based on inclusion. Everyone gets a chance One gem of an observation from the first section for me is that what are in one aspect groups of people with totally different beliefs (Christian fundamentalists, ISIS, the elite of Wall Street), are all preparing for a cataclysmic event, and each believes that on the other side of that event, they will be part of the chosen few who remain, and for whom the world will be a better place. Jamie categorizes all these beliefs as "Rapture ideologies". Biological imperative for procreation - woman’s ability to conceive with a new sexual partner is extended +/-3 days In Recapture the Rapture, we’re taking radical research out of the extremes and applying it to the mainstream--to the broader social problem of healing, believing, and belonging. It’s providing answers to the questions we face: how to replace blind faith with direct experience, how to move from broken to whole, and how to cure isolation with connection. Said even more plainly, it shows us how to revitalize our bodies, boost our creativity, rekindle our relationships, and answer once and for all the questions of why we are here and what do we do now? Competition or collaboration? Judgement or acceptance? Scarcity or abundance? Turns out that we as a collective get to decide what's true. Wheal makes a compelling case for Meaning 3.0 as the gateway that opens us into a more beautiful world that our hearts know is possible.