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Recapture the Rapture

Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That’s Lost Its Mind

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Recapture the Rapture

By: Jamie Wheal
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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.

This is a book about a big idea. And the idea is this: Slowly over the past few decades, and now suddenly, all at once, we’re suffering from a collapse in meaning. Fundamentalism and nihilism are filling that vacuum, with consequences that affect us all. In a world that needs us at our best, diseases of despair, tribalism, and disaster fatigue are leaving us at our worst.

It’s vital that we regain control of the stories we’re telling because they are shaping the future we’re creating. To do that, we have to remember our deepest inspiration, heal our pain and apathy, and connect to each other like never before. If we can do that, we’ve got a shot at solving the big problems we face. And if we can’t? Well, the dustbin of history has swallowed civilizations older and fancier than ours.

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.

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 final third of the book, Ethical Cult Building, focuses on the tricky nature of putting these kinds of experiences into gear and into culture - because, anytime in the past when we’ve figured out combinations of peak states and deep healing, we’ve almost always ended up with problematic culty communities. Playing with fire has left a lot of people burned. This section lays out a road map for sparking a thousand fires around the world - each one unique and tailored to the needs and values of its participants. Think of it as an open-source toolkit for building ethical culture.

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 know?

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.

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©2021 Jamie Wheal (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers
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Just finished this book via audible.
I listened to all of it, which says a lot for me.

Although the ideas and philosophies come at you fast and furious it offers humor, insight, and a deep curiosity to dig deeper. Especially in these ultra confusing times.
I’ve listened to a few interviews that Jamie has recently done on line, and to me he seems humble, extremely intelligent, and sincere in his message for helping humanity.
I will most definitely have to listen to it again as it is a shit ton take in!
As one person said you can literally feel your brain growing as you do.

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Homo-Sapiens to Homo-Ludens

While we may not be able to find the promised land ourselves, with the help of books like these, we can hope our children will.

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Want to think?

This was a great book- it got me thinking and challenged me in great ways. There is a lot here to get your head wrapped around.
Will definitely listen to it numerous times!

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good

good performance, some great and interesting ideas, too much fluff and stories at times,

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One of the most important books of the times...

Such a comprehensive work drawing from diverse fields such as anthropology, neuroscience, history, pop culture, religion, physics, and biology. Just to name a few.

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This book is not for everyone, which is why it’s next level

Out of the 25+ books I read in 2021, this one takes the crown.

For all those ready to take the leap to the next level of flow, look no further.

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Unifying rituals and humanity in general

The book felt like a fast-medium pased rite of passage. Perfect timing as well. I would recommend this book to anyone in a tight spot and whoever feels like they have the weight of the world on their shoulders.

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Inspiring and informative

It’s full of practical knowledge of how to build strong communities and society, and packed with techniques and tools for better health, peak states and deep healing from traumas.

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Beautifully written, entertaining, and very relevant

This book was reminiscent of Stealing Fire but goes beyond just the different forms of ecstasis and altered states and paints a picture of possible solutions to move forward into a paradigm that is no longer zero sum - the infinite game. This book succinctly details the current “conspirituality” landscape and rapture ideologies and gives us a clear way forward.

Highly entertaining, funny, and well performed by the author. If you’ve ever enjoyed any of Jamie Wheels content, this is the mother load, and you’re in for a treat. Enjoy.

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Convincing Perspective

Scratches away the thin vail of forgetting we humans actively adorn ourselves with. Very convincing perspective of our condition while offering practical and historically practices to rise above it all.

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