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

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A peak-performance expert maps out a revolutionary new practice—Hedonic Engineering—that combines the best of neuroscience and optimal psychology. It’s an intensive program of breathing, movement, and sexuality that mends trauma, heightens inspiration and tightens connections—helping us wake up, grow up, and show up for a world that needs us all. First, she proposed a theory that builds on top of the existing ones, and then she tried to “undermine the science showing universality in the interpretation of facial expressions”, according to Paul Ekman, who is a pioneer in the study of emotions: https://www.paulekman.com/blog/darwin... Or GDP of countries generally correlates negatively with their religiosity. So rich countries tend to be less religious. A highly personal, richly informed and culturally wide-ranging meditation on the loss of meaning in our times and on pathways to rediscovering it.” —Gabor Maté, MD, author of In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.” ― Pema Chödrön Music – Music can amplify any of the other experiences. From ancient chants to cathedrals to chain gangs to concerts, music has accompanied us on the journey of human civilization. Ok. Do humans understand that they will get something positive before going into such an experience? The way forward, argues Wheal...is to rediscover and reinvent our humanity in radical ways that places community, respect for ourselves, the planet and the human species at the center of our strategy for survival; and it’s a strategy that can work for everyone."Bottom line, there are dozens of other studies that support the different theories, so this is far from settled or being proven :)) This book is not about society beyond religion but about society powered by a new psychedelic-based faith. Also, subtly underlying the value of Christianity and its core message, “none of us can escape from, even if we wanted” :)) Throughout time, new transformational movements have popped up here and there, only to be suppressed, often ruthlessly, by the ruling elite who wish to maintain business as usual. To counter this, you need to seed a revolution, not lead it; use ingredients that are easily accessible to individual and communal sovereignty and spread the information far and wide. These three passages do not share all the same details. But they do have enough in common to point to a common event. They affirm that Christ will return visibly for all to see and the last trumpet points to this event being at the end. It will involve the resurrection of believers who have died and the transformation of those who are still living at his return. When Does the Bible Say the Rapture Will Happen? Whether it’s the absolution of Catholic confession, the ritual forgiveness of Jewish Yom Kippur, or the cathartic suffering of a Lakota Sun Dance ceremony, religion has always provided ways for us to mend and atone.

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. A tech vs. religious solution, some will make it to the other side who are smart/adaptable vs. righteous I believe we can use the power of ecstatic experiences, story-telling, and human connection to get through this.There are some who would propose that at the resurrection we will be purely spiritual beings, like God. But Scripture tells us that we will have a body – a body that will be like Christ’s. In 1 Corinthians 15:42-49 Paul contrasts the body we have now with the one that we will have. That coming body will be imperishable, immortal, glorious, powerful, and spiritual. Identifying it as a spiritual body lends support to a resurrection that is spiritual in nature. But note that it is a spiritual body, not a spirit. And we will bear the image of the heavenly man, Christ. What our bodies will be like is unknown. But we can be certain that we will have bodies. Is the Rapture Separate from the Second Coming of Christ? A big part of Jamie’s message and the solution moving forward is psychedelics enabling us a deeper state of consciousness. Like that would be a truer reality than our everyday one. A highly personal, richly informed and culturally wide-ranging meditation on the loss of meaning in our times and on pathways to rediscovering it.” —Gabor Maté, MD, author of In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction A peak-performance expert maps out a revolutionary new practice - hedonic engineering - that combines the best of neuroscience and optimal psychology. It’s an intensive program of breathing, movement, and sexuality that mends trauma, heightens inspiration, and tightens connections - helping us wake up, grow up, and show up for a world that needs us all.

In a world that needs the best of us from the rest of us, this is a book that shows us how to get it done. As someone who was born and raised in a cult (the Moonies) and then became a devout agnostic at the age of 22, Jamie Wheal's book-length manifesto Recapture the Rapture may just be the software update needed, especially for those who have god-shaped voids within, to encourage us to find the best parts of radical process theology without getting lost in the worst parts of toxic religious ideology. But there is a fifth option; instead of dumping our authority and agency, we can step up and own our power and potential. Instead of seeing Jesus as the Saviour and us as the meager sheep, we can see our potential as Christ consciousness, where we rise up to the messiah, not as followers but as equals. (Again, Baha’u’llah is a great leader but he’s not a manifestation as distinct from others; he’s a leader only insofar as he creates other Baha’u’llahs! “Rather than telling people what to believe, based on a distant and non-repeatable founder’s revelation, we can share the methods that prompt belief.” In that instant of living, embodied truth ‘faith’ doesn’t mean blindly following someone else’s dogma; it’s actually trust without reservation.) There are many scenarios of the end times that have been drawn from Jesus’ Revelation to John. But I do not find that there are any unambiguous references to the rapture contained in Revelation. Much of how one interprets Revelation is based upon their eschatological perspective. So, for that reason, I have chosen not to include anything from Revelation in this discussion. But there are three passages in the New Testament that do provide us with explicit information about this event.But it’s important to note that when the West started replacing religious guidance with science and liberalism – we lost a lot, too.

This is part two of Stealing Fire, another great book on the subject of neuroscience and improving the human condition. If you read this, get ready for some unusual topics that you'll probably be uncomfortable with. The author goes on to point out the crumbling of the major structures that were holding us and our beliefs together so far: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... Second, the most popular review of her book states points out that while her theory is interesting and well presented in the actual scientific paper it was published, the book has misleading claims and strawman “classical neuropsychology”. While I did not read the book yet, the reviewer posted several links and resources to support his position: Oxytocin is indeed the love drug, but few realize that this isn’t the whole story. Studies show that boosting oxytocin increases envy. It increases gloating. Oxytocin can bias people to favor their own group at the expense of outsiders. Harvard immunologist Katherine Wu says, “Oxytocin [also plays] a role in ethnocentrism, increasing our love for people in our already-established groups and making those unlike us seem more foreign.”