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Throughout time, new transformational movements have popped up here and there, only to be suppressed, often ruthlessly, by the ruling elite who wish to maintain business as usual. To counter this, you need to seed a revolution, not lead it; use ingredients that are easily accessible to individual and communal sovereignty and spread the information far and wide.
The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.”― Ken Kesey While I agree that one can experience the dissolution of the ego, trauma healing, or other benefits from psychedelics, it’s not all rainbows and butterflies. What is true from those visions, and what is a hallucination? These are different skins of the same program… The great big turning point is just around the corner! For instance, according to the Pew Research Foundation, 58 percent of American evangelicals believe that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ is going to occur before 2050. Connection–religions connect people to a community. In his book Together, the former US surgeon general Vivek Murthy writes “we have evolved to participate in community, to forge lasting bonds with others, to help one another, and to share life experiences. We are, simply, better together.”
The left wants to tear down the Western canon because they see it as the origin of contemporary oppression. They want to censor biology in case contemporary findings on race or gender become weaponized. And to be fair – popular narratives of the past four hundred years are rife with “scientific” arguments propping up despicable things like the institution of slavery, chemical castration of homosexuals, and wage gaps between men and women.
There are many scenarios of the end times that have been drawn from Jesus’ Revelation to John. But I do not find that there are any unambiguous references to the rapture contained in Revelation. Much of how one interprets Revelation is based upon their eschatological perspective. So, for that reason, I have chosen not to include anything from Revelation in this discussion. But there are three passages in the New Testament that do provide us with explicit information about this event. On the flip-side, the alt-right doesn’t want to tear down the West,” writes Jamie. “They foolishly glorify it. Powering up their fever-dream Aryan patriarchy one semi-ironic Reddit post at a time. #becuzaristotle and #becuzscience.” As someone who was born and raised in a cult (the Moonies) and then became a devout agnostic at the age of 22, Jamie Wheal's book-length manifesto Recapture the Rapture may just be the software update needed, especially for those who have god-shaped voids within, to encourage us to find the best parts of radical process theology without getting lost in the worst parts of toxic religious ideology. But the next part of our Cinderella story is completely up for grabs. We have the chance to write the next chapter. The Collapse of Meaning Jamie Wheal 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.But it’s important to note that when the West started replacing religious guidance with science and liberalism – we lost a lot, too. 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. 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?
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