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Recapture the Rapture
- Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That’s Lost Its Mind
- Narrated by: Jamie Wheal
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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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- Anonymous User
- 23-04-2022
For anyone into finding meaning & building communi
The book I've been waiting for for a long time. Thank you for bringing it all together to deliver hope for a non-crazy world!!!
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- Bill Gye
- 31-10-2021
What’s it all about
Beautifully putting it all together. Poetic prose and conceptual flows riffing on our personal and planetary situation and response. Great mind comprehensively monitoring and synthesising multiple significant information channels regarding what it important at this critical cross road.
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- Chantal
- 23-10-2022
love it
The first and only sense making guide to navigate our rapidly changing world. I'm inspired and ready to make some change.
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- Anonymous User
- 13-07-2022
For those who think deeply about the nature of being
If you know of Jamie Wheal’s work you won’t hesitate on this purchase.
If you are an adventurer, experience hunter, sensation seeker, self-reflective soul, psychonaut, artistic creator, a hero on a quest, a sexual deviant or a curious being in the pursuit of mystery this book is for you.
Jamie unpacks the layers of human experience, analysing each piece from a perspective most will find not only helpful, but cathartic and meaningful. The content is well researched and pulls in overlapping concepts from the likes of Plato to Dr King, Terence McKenna to Dr Seuss.
The language is poetic and hopeful, as is Jamie’s delivery. It took me time to work through this book, or perhaps I should say “I took my time working through this book” - the topics are deep and demand a great degree of reflection and time for integration. I’ll be giving certain chapters a second listen.
There were multiple parts which connected loose ends for me, giving closure to moments in my life which have caused much cognitive and emotional suffering. Having a deeper understanding of human behaviours and phenomena ranging from “the seven year itch” “cult-like groups and gurus” and “the hurdles when sharing one’s revelations and realisations” will undoubtedly allow for a sense of peace to settle where conflict once flourished.
If you haven’t read/listened to Stealing Fire, perhaps that would be a good place to start before diving in to Recapture the Rapture. Stealing fire is half the length and follows a faster pace, laying sturdy foundations to build upon.
Thank you Jamie for helping me make a little more sense of all this
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- Kylie Ryan
- 06-03-2022
Essential for aspiring change-makers
I will come back to part 3 over and over to help guide me. Powerful research and insights on how to evolve consciousness at an individual and collective level.
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- Darren
- 28-07-2022
A must read in these moments
I must admit this book takes you into places that you might find alot of internal resistance to. But continue the mystery journey and you might get a different perspective. I think I'm going to need to listen a few more times....
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