Meaning 1.0: When we found faith and comfort in organized religion. Religions offered (and still offer) salvation to the believers.

The Conformist tends to defer to established authority regarding which ecstatic practices to follow. They might willingly have their child on a methamphetamine for ADD, but consider psychedelic therapy frightening. Compliance is their Achilles’ heel. Steering (out of the ruts of consensus opinion) is their missing link. But there is a fifth option; instead of dumping our authority and agency, we can step up and own our power and potential. Instead of seeing Jesus as the Saviour and us as the meager sheep, we can see our potential as Christ consciousness, where we rise up to the messiah, not as followers but as equals. (Again, Baha’u’llah is a great leader but he’s not a manifestation as distinct from others; he’s a leader only insofar as he creates other Baha’u’llahs! “Rather than telling people what to believe, based on a distant and non-repeatable founder’s revelation, we can share the methods that prompt belief.” In that instant of living, embodied truth ‘faith’ doesn’t mean blindly following someone else’s dogma; it’s actually trust without reservation.) 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.”

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Organized religion (Meaning 1.0) used to provide us with faith and comfort, but was largely founded on the elitist idea that only those who believed were saved. Modern liberalism (Meaning 2.0) is the antithesis to the thesis, the belief that everyone, everywhere through democracy, free markets and civil rights can experience the salvation of the thesis. Hierarchy and equality. But both alone cannot usher us through to the coming world and because both Meaning 1.0 and 2.0 have failed (when taken alone, meaning 1.0 results in fundamentalism and meaning 2.0 results in global inequality and nihilism) we’re being swarmed with Rapture Ideologies, ideologies that share four key beliefs: the world is broken, there will be an inflection point in the near future, everyone we value will be saved, and we need to get there as fast as possible. 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. 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 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 It's been a pleasure reading this, it's witty, fresh, apocalyptic (as in "pulling the lid off of" rather than as in "eschaton") and fun.

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. Or GDP of countries generally correlates negatively with their religiosity. So rich countries tend to be less religious. Let’s get practical. Five of the most potent and accessible physical drivers to shape consciousness and culture and help us build Meaning 3.0 are: Curious why if he researched when an ethologist would have to say about this. He is either not aware of or ignores it. An ethologist is a scientist who *interviews an animal in its own language*. E.g., dolphins don’t talk but can echolocate. Bats have poor vision but use echolocation too.

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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 Music – Music can amplify any of the other experiences. From ancient chants to cathedrals to chain gangs to concerts, music has accompanied us on the journey of human civilization. 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.