{"product_id":"jamie-wheal-recapture-the-rapture-9780062905468","title":"Recapture the Rapture","description":"“A highly personal, richly informed and culturally\n\u003cbr\u003e\nwide-ranging meditation on the loss of meaning in our times and on pathways to\n\u003cbr\u003e\nrediscovering it.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Gabor Maté, MD,\u003c\/strong\u003e author of In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts:\n\u003cbr\u003e\nClose Encounters With Addiction \u003cstrong\u003eA \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eneuroanthropologist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e This is a book about a big\n\u003cbr\u003e\nidea. And the idea is this: Slowly over the past few decades, and now suddenly,\n\u003cbr\u003e\nall at once, we’re suffering from a collapse in Meaning. Fundamentalism and\n\u003cbr\u003e\nnihilism are filling that vacuum, with consequences that affect us all. In a\n\u003cbr\u003e\nworld that needs us at our best, diseases of despair, tribalism, and disaster\n\u003cbr\u003e\nfatigue are leaving us at our worst. It’s vital that we regain\n\u003cbr\u003e\ncontrol of the stories we’re telling because they are shaping the future we’re\n\u003cbr\u003e\ncreating. To do that, we have to remember our deepest inspiration, heal our\n\u003cbr\u003e\npain and apathy, and connect to each other like never before. If we can do\n\u003cbr\u003e\nthat, we’ve got a shot at solving the big problems we face. And if we\n\u003cbr\u003e\ncan’t?  Well, the dustbin of history has swallowed civilizations older and\n\u003cbr\u003e\nfancier than ours.  This book is divided into\n\u003cbr\u003e\nthree parts. The first, \u003cstrong\u003eChoose Your Own Apocalypse\u003c\/strong\u003e, takes a look at\n\u003cbr\u003e\nour current Meaning Crisis--where we are today, why it’s so hard to make\n\u003cbr\u003e\nsense of the world, what might be coming next, and what to do about it. It also\n\u003cbr\u003e\nmakes a case that many of our efforts to cope, whether anxiety and denial, or\n\u003cbr\u003e\ntribalism and identity politics, are likely making things worse. The middle section, \u003cstrong\u003eThe\n \u003cbr\u003eAlchemist Cookbook\u003c\/strong\u003e,  applies the creative firm IDEO’s design thinking\n\u003cbr\u003e\nto the Meaning Crisis. This is where the book gets hands on--taking a look at\n\u003cbr\u003e\nthe strongest evolutionary drivers that can bring about inspiration, healing,\n\u003cbr\u003e\nand connection. From breathing, to movement, sexuality, music, and\n\u003cbr\u003e\nsubstances--these are the everyday tools to help us wake up, grow up, and show\n\u003cbr\u003e\nup. AKA--how to blow yourself sky high with household materials. And the best\n\u003cbr\u003e\npart? They’re accessible, by anyone anywhere, no middleman required.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nTranscendence democratized. The final third of the\n\u003cbr\u003e\nbook, \u003cstrong\u003eEthical Cult Building\u003c\/strong\u003e, focuses on the tricky nature of\n\u003cbr\u003e\nputting these kinds of experiences into gear and into culture—because, anytime\n\u003cbr\u003e\nin the past when we’ve figured out combinations of peak states and deep\n\u003cbr\u003e\nhealing, we’ve almost always ended up with problematic culty communities.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nPlaying with fire has left a lot of people burned. This section lays out a\n\u003cbr\u003e\nroadmap for sparking a thousand fires around the world--each one unique and\n\u003cbr\u003e\ntailored to the needs and values of its participants. Think of it as an\n\u003cbr\u003e\nopen-source toolkit for building ethical culture. In Recapture the\n\u003cbr\u003e\nRapture, we’re taking radical research out of the extremes and applying it\n\u003cbr\u003e\nto the mainstream--to the broader social problem of healing, believing, and\n\u003cbr\u003e\nbelonging. It’s providing answers to the questions we face: how to replace\n\u003cbr\u003e\nblind faith with direct experience, how to move from broken to whole, and how\n\u003cbr\u003e\nto cure isolation with connection. Said even more plainly, it shows us how to\n\u003cbr\u003e\nrevitalize our bodies, boost our creativity, rekindle our relationships, and\n\u003cbr\u003e\nanswer once and for all the questions of why we are here and what do we\n\u003cbr\u003e\ndo now?  In a world that needs the best\n\u003cbr\u003e\nof us from the rest of us, this is a book that shows us how to get it done. ","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53257651257686,"sku":"9780062905468-G","price":10.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used - like new","offer_id":53355762286934,"sku":"9780062905468-N","price":12.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780062905468_1.jpg?v=1777941571","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/jamie-wheal-recapture-the-rapture-9780062905468","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}