The final third of the book is titled "Ethical cult building". From one perspective, this section could provide guidance in building an organization that is truly playing the "infinite game", to have humanity survive and thrive as long as possible. From another perspective, this section is a wake-up call to distinguish many of the myriad ways that historically so many "movements" that have magnetically pulled so many people in have done as much (or more) harm than good. Full Book Name: Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That’s Lost its Mind

As a spoken word interlocutor, his commentaries and insights into the present day human condition, are astounding in their metaphorical brilliance and humorous accuracy.

From the “scientific” perspective, 1 star. However, it had a lot of interesting references and nuggets of information, so I gave it 2 stars.

Sometimes the information density of the book is so high, it is like drinking from a fire hose. Given a choice, I would not change that, but it can be an energy drain at times. 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. 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.Second, the most popular review of her book states points out that while her theory is interesting and well presented in the actual scientific paper it was published, the book has misleading claims and strawman “classical neuropsychology”. While I did not read the book yet, the reviewer posted several links and resources to support his position: 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?

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. 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 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.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. EMBODIMENT: pain and suffering have an ancient relationship to healing and people have been decoupling what they feel physically from what they experience emotionally. Humans are unique in being able to hot-wire pain to experience pleasure and healing. While we cannot manage the amount of pain that we are subjected to in life, we can choose to meet pain on purpose and with intention, and it’s this that appears to be the key. As much as we might dance around it, or seek to repress out core physicality, it is an essential and unavoidable part of the human experience. Notice which persona feels most true for you. The Hedonist values pursuing the fullest range of experience possible. The Purist values sanctity of mind and body. The Conformist values expert advice and evidence. If we can integrate these three orientations, we’ll be stronger and more effective technicians of the sacred. 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