"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 Mate, MD, author of In The Realm of
Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction A
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. 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 roadmap 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 now? 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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