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

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We can remember who we are through sublime peak experience, we can mend our broken parts through cathartic healing, and we can choose to connect–as couples, communities and citizens. Rapture is not a word that is found in Scripture. But it is used to describe a very biblical doctrine; the return of Christ and the gathering up of his elect. This doctrine is central to the hope that we have as believers. Meaning 1.0: When we found faith and comfort in organized religion. Religions offered (and still offer) salvation to the believers. This is a book about a big idea. And the idea is this: Slowly over the past few decades, and now suddenly, all at once, we’re suffering from a collapse in meaning. Fundamentalism and nihilism are filling that vacuum, with consequences that affect us all. In a world that needs us at our best, diseases of despair, tribalism, and disaster fatigue are leaving us at our worst.

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. 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. This book is divided into three parts. The first, Choose Your Own Apocalypse, takes a look at our current meaning crisis - where we are today, why it’s so hard to make sense of the world, what might be coming next, and what to do about it. It also makes a case that many of our efforts to cope, whether anxiety and denial, or tribalism and identity politics, are likely making things worse. 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. 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.This book is not about society beyond religion but about society powered by a new psychedelic-based faith. Also, subtly underlying the value of Christianity and its core message, “none of us can escape from, even if we wanted” :)) Barrett put her perspective in contrast to what she calls "the classical view of emotions". However, there isn't as such a clear classical view of emotions. There are certain theories which over the years has gradually evolved… all the solutions she provides, are solutions which has existed for a very long time, and has been developed by people who believed in fx "basic emotions" which belongs to her category "the classical view of emotions".

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?

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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. In a world that needs the best of us from the rest of us, this is a book that shows us how to get it done.

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