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The Awakened Ape

A Biohacker's Guide to Evolutionary Fitness, Natural Ecstasy, and Stress-Free Living

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The Awakened Ape

By: Jevan Pradas
Narrated by: Paul Brion
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What secrets do Amazonian tribes, Himalayan hermits, and enlightened monks know about health and happiness that have been lost to the world today?

In The Awakened Ape, Jevan Pradas uses evolutionary psychology to hack the human mind and body to answer the question: "How can we enjoy life to the fullest?" The results, while unexpected, are completely backed by science.

Perpetually bored, anxious, fatigued, and overweight, modern society has failed to deliver the happiness it promised. The remedy, Jevan argues, is in a unique synthesis of a Paleolithic lifestyle and Buddhist meditation. A sprawling journey, featuring Jevan's adventures with naked Amazonian tribes and retreats with enlightened monks to learn the secrets of optimal well-being, The Awakened Ape will teach you how to achieve deep states of bliss. All while shaping your body into the fit and healthy animal millions of years of evolution programmed you to be.

You will learn how to meditate-from instructions for the absolute beginner to techniques for deep states of ecstasy and awakening; how to eat the optimally healthy diet for both physical and mental health; how to train the attention span so you can be focused and efficient all day long; how to exercise so that is fun, enjoyable, and something you look forward to; how to get rid of the habit of negative thinking in just one week; how to live like a caveman in the modern world in order to get the most out of your genetics; how to properly go to the bathroom (yes, you have been doing it wrong); and much, much, more....

©2016 Jevan Pradas (P)2018 Tantor
Buddhism Evolution Psychology Happiness Mental Health Genetics

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Well done

Loved the lay out of this was so good! Good balance of science and the whoooo hooo will buy the paper back to.

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a unique book.

Grateful this was written. Beautifully and gently written with. Has made me do a lot of rethinking. Now to put it into practice.

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A truly enlightening read

Well read and a fantastic read on how we are where we are and how we can potentially change our fate.

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Great book.

Life-changing insights (if put into action). It's the sort of audiobook I want to listen to again.

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One of the best

Well written and engaging. No nonsense and confronting and challenging. Strongly recommend. One of the best of its genre.

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Highly recommend this book.

I must say that this book is really good. It does get quite repetitive and lose connection in the middle of the book, however. The. Last part is really really good. I encourage this book to be read by those who wants to explore the concept of meditation and importance of meditation in this busy life.

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Enlightening!

Whether you agree with everything in this or not. it's worth listening to all the way through. the narrator sounds a little boring at first, but he grows on you. The knowledge of this after listening to Tribe has really opened my eyes.

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Horrible background noise

This title is unlistenable due to a constant fluttering noise in the background. Present throughout entire audiobook. Want refund please

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