{"product_id":"recapture-the-rapture-rethinking-god-sex-and-death-in-a-world-that-s-lost-its-mind","title":"Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That’s Lost Its Mind","description":"“A highly personal, richly informed and culturally\nwide-ranging meditation on the loss of meaning in our times and on pathways to\nrediscovering it.” —Gabor Maté, MD, author of In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts:\nClose Encounters With Addiction\nA neuroanthropologist 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.\nThis is a book about a big\nidea. And the idea is this: Slowly over the past few decades, and now suddenly,\nall at once, we’re suffering from a collapse in Meaning. Fundamentalism and\nnihilism are filling that vacuum, with consequences that affect us all. In a\nworld that needs us at our best, diseases of despair, tribalism, and disaster\nfatigue are leaving us at our worst.\nIt’s vital that we regain\ncontrol of the stories we’re telling because they are shaping the future we’re\ncreating. To do that, we have to remember our deepest inspiration, heal our\npain and apathy, and connect to each other like never before. If we can do\nthat, we’ve got a shot at solving the big problems we face. And if we\ncan’t? Well, the dustbin of history has swallowed civilizations older and\nfancier than ours.\nThis book is divided into\nthree parts. The first, Choose Your Own Apocalypse, takes a look at\nour current Meaning Crisis--where we are today, why it’s so hard to make\nsense of the world, what might be coming next, and what to do about it. It also\nmakes a case that many of our efforts to cope, whether anxiety and denial, or\ntribalism and identity politics, are likely making things worse.\nThe middle section, The\nAlchemist Cookbook, applies the creative firm IDEO’s design thinking\nto the Meaning Crisis. This is where the book gets hands on--taking a look at\nthe strongest evolutionary drivers that can bring about inspiration, healing,\nand connection. From breathing, to movement, sexuality, music, and\nsubstances--these are the everyday tools to help us wake up, grow up, and show\nup. AKA--how to blow yourself sky high with household materials. And the best\npart? They’re accessible, by anyone anywhere, no middleman required.\nTranscendence democratized.\nThe final third of the\nbook, Ethical Cult Building, focuses on the tricky nature of\nputting these kinds of experiences into gear and into culture—because, anytime\nin the past when we’ve figured out combinations of peak states and deep\nhealing, we’ve almost always ended up with problematic culty communities.\nPlaying with fire has left a lot of people burned. This section lays out a\nroadmap for sparking a thousand fires around the world--each one unique and\ntailored to the needs and values of its participants. Think of it as an\nopen-source toolkit for building ethical culture.\nIn Recapture the\nRapture, we’re taking radical research out of the extremes and applying it\nto the mainstream--to the broader social problem of healing, believing, and\nbelonging. It’s providing answers to the questions we face: how to replace\nblind faith with direct experience, how to move from broken to whole, and how\nto cure isolation with connection. Said even more plainly, it shows us how to\nrevitalize our bodies, boost our creativity, rekindle our relationships, and\nanswer once and for all the questions of why we are here and what do we\ndo now?\nIn a world that needs the best\nof us from the rest of us, this is a book that shows us how to get it done.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0062905465\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0062905465.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Wheal, Jamie\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41504815448122,"sku":"DBV.0062905465.VG","price":7.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0062905465-0.jpg?v=1783124556","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/recapture-the-rapture-rethinking-god-sex-and-death-in-a-world-that-s-lost-its-mind","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}