Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost Its Mind

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Ok. Do humans understand that they will get something positive before going into such an experience? 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?

These three passages do not share all the same details. But they do have enough in common to point to a common event. They affirm that Christ will return visibly for all to see and the last trumpet points to this event being at the end. It will involve the resurrection of believers who have died and the transformation of those who are still living at his return. When Does the Bible Say the Rapture Will Happen?Healing – the second nutrient we all need. “The world breaks everyone,” said Hemingway, “and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.” We all suffer micro-PTSD nearly all the time. Having a way to digest our grief, rather than choke on it, is essential. As Bessel Van Der Kolk writes in his brilliant book, the body really does keep the score. PDF / EPUB File Name: Recapture_the_Rapture_Rethinking_God_Sex_and_Death_In_a_World_Thats_Lost_Its_Mind_-_Jamie_Wheal.pdf, Recapture_the_Rapture_Rethinking_God_Sex_and_Death_In_a_World_Thats_Lost_Its_Mind_-_Jamie_Wheal.epub There was a mashup of a lot of neuroscience and psychological principles that I’ve read about elsewhere, and while I enjoyed those sections I feel like he missed a key component: therapy. Be it CBT, dialectic, EMDR, whatever, I just felt that if he’s discussing how humans can find meaning and become better humans, there needs to be an archeological expedition into your own personal psychology. I expect that’s the role he’s given to substances, but I’m a bit skeptical that inhaling nitrous oxide is going to help you uncover the ways you’re a product of your social, cultural and familial environment and did you really consciously choose anything? Some things can only be realized through deep introspection and therapy. Well this was a trip. I saw a random 5 minute video and thought “I want to hear more from this guy.” He definitely wins the award for most fascinating conversationalist at parties. This is a book on the biggest sort of thinking -- from personal to societal -- written by an author with an eye for what matters, an ear for story and a mind for the sublime." — David Eagleman, Neuroscientist at Stanford, New York Times bestselling author of Livewired and Incognito, and host of PBS The Brain

But exactly when “the end of the age” will be is a big unknown. In Matthew 24:36, Jesus tells his disciples that no one, other than the Father, knows when that end will occur. Not even the angels in heaven, or even the Son. And, in Acts 1:7, in response to his disciple’s question about the establishment of the kingdom, Jesus says that it is not for them to know the when. The end will come in the Father’s time, and he has not chosen to share that with us. On the one hand, the information in this book, in the hands of the wrong people, is incredibly dangerous, on the other hand, leaving the world in the hands of those without access to the deep now is incredibly dangerous. I agree that body and mind should be treated together, not separately. But Lisa Feldman did not dismantle anything.

Substances – Humans, and most other animals, routinely seek to shift states as part of their learning, growing, and mending. Bottom line, there are dozens of other studies that support the different theories, so this is far from settled or being proven :)) 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.

The whirling dervishes of Sufism have been persecuted for centuries for their refusal to bow to external authority. Tantric Shaivist sects in India regularly ran afoul of conservative leaders of more mainline denominations. Shakers, Quakers, and Mormons all had to flee their homelands to pursue their more direct and experiential faith. First, she proposed a theory that builds on top of the existing ones, and then she tried to “undermine the science showing universality in the interpretation of facial expressions”, according to Paul Ekman, who is a pioneer in the study of emotions: https://www.paulekman.com/blog/darwin... This book is about open sourcing things that are currently exclusive. It's about embracing who we are on a deeper level. The stories and history in this book fascinated me and made me think. In 1 Corinthians 15 Paul defends the future resurrection of believers. And in vers es 50-55 he describes what that will be like. It will happen in a moment, at the last trumpet. When the trumpet sounds, the dead will be raised, and the living believers will be changed. But he doesn't stop there: he manages to weave, with grace and clarity, true wisdom from the masters of the past — William James ( The Varieties of Religious Experience), James Carse ( Finite and Infinite Games), Martin Buber ( I and Thou), and even good old Kurt Vonnegut (his timeless " Shape of Stories" lecture) — with real facts from the top neuroscientists in the field today ( Lisa Feldman Barrett, Andrew Huberman, David Eagleman, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi). Nowhere else have I seen a writer integrate game theory, information theory, literary theory, and music theory all at once and with such style and substance and sublimity.We’re living in crazy times of narrative collapse, climate crisis, rising fascism, and record low institutional trust. This book gave me the resolution of a Spartan warrior to fight the crises of our time. All these features of human sexuality - long term sexual partnership, private sex, concealed ovulation, extended female receptivity, sex for fun… that render human sexuality so distinctive…” - citing a renowned anthropologist.

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.

The death of belief has led to a collapse of meaning, and many of us are looking to neuroscience and psychology for inspiration and understanding. Wheal knows that peak states bring about deep healing, and he is here to deliver. This enrapturing book not only details various drivers of our cultural evolution, it becomes one itself.”— Julie Holland, MD, Author of Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection From Soul to Psychedelics and Weekends at Bellevue