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

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The book gives one a good round through of the new Big 5, with hints at what works - how and why. Things one can try, providing a pallet where there is something for everyone, regardless of budget.

Meaning 1.0: When we found faith and comfort in organized religion. Religions offered (and still offer) salvation to the believers. Recapture the Rapture is both a hymnal and an operations manual for the party at the end of the world-as-we-know-it. The cure for spiritual bypassing and conspirituality is not more mindfulness, it seems, but a redemptive and mutant religiosity that dives into the deep end of our contemporary catastrophe." — Erik Davis, author, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the 70s Third, he forgot to add the beginning of that phrase: “It is hypothesized that aberrant interaction …” and the conclusion of the study, “What is known regarding amygdala and dopaminergic alterations in schizophrenia combined with data on the role of oxytocin in prosocial behavior suggest a neural circuit that may contribute to aberrant emotional salience processing”. When will this second coming of Christ and our being gathered to him occur? The best answer we can give with any certainty is that it will be at the end of this age. In Matthew 24:3 Jesus’ disciples ask about Jesus coming and the end of the age. Jesus’ response to their question culminates with the passage mentioned above with Jesus’ return and our being gathered to him.Meduna test" by Stanislav Graf: 30% O2 / 70% CO2 mixture - used to screen for psychosis risk to LSD 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. 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 Maté, MD, author of In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction Full Book Name: Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That’s Lost its Mind

Towards our “uniqueness”, dozens of animals mate for life. According to prof Robert Sapolsky, some monkeys physically mimic being fertile to don’t carry a child they don’t want (I couldn’t find the reference. It was in the Human Behavioral Biology course). Bonobos have about 75% of their sex for fun, not sometimes, as he mentions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOY3Q... Next we get introduced to the now obvious task of establishing Meaning 3.0 (I guess they'll have to coexist in ways that build coherence with each other, so the others would have to change in the shapes that would allow that in their process of being (re)sculpted into reality). Music only recently separated from physical movement. Believed to predate written language. First artifacts are always music instruments 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 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.

To recap: A viable candidate for Meaning 3.0 will need to fulfill the pro-social functions of traditional 1.0 Faith—Inspiration, Healing, and Connection. And, to stand a chance of helping the world, it needs to fulfill the inclusive promise of 2.0 Modernism, and be Open Source, Scalable, and Anti-fragile. Oxytocin is indeed the love drug, but few realize that this isn’t the whole story. Studies show that boosting oxytocin increases envy. It increases gloating. Oxytocin can bias people to favor their own group at the expense of outsiders. Harvard immunologist Katherine Wu says, “Oxytocin [also plays] a role in ethnocentrism, increasing our love for people in our already-established groups and making those unlike us seem more foreign.”