Recapture the rapture Rethinking God, sex, and death in a world that's lost its mind
Book - 2021
The author posits that humanity is suffering from a loss of meaning and replacing it with fundamentalism and nihilism. To combat despair, tribalism, and disaster fatigue, Wheal offers a program of meditiation, breathing, movement, and sexuality, here called Hedonic Engineering, intended to heal and inspire. First analyzes the author's view of the "Meaning Crisis;" the middle section presents widely accessible tools and practices; and the final section, "Ethical Cult Building," addresses society's past issues with similar movements resulting in cults and cult-like behavior.
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New York, NY :
Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
[2021]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- xxiv, 373 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes index.
- ISBN
- 9780062905468
- Introduction: Doomsday Preppers
- Part I. Choose Your Own Apocalypse
- Chapter 1. The Centre Cannot Hold
- Chapter 2. Stop Making Sense
- Chapter 3. We Are the World
- Chapter 4. Designing Meaning 3.0
- Part II. The Alchemist Cookbook
- Chapter 5. Respiration
- Chapter 6. Embodiment
- Chapter 7. Music
- Chapter 8. Sacraments
- Chapter 9. Sex, Part I
- Chapter 10. Sex, Part II
- Chapter 11. An Immodest Proposal
- Part III. Ethical Cult Building
- Chapter 12. Everybody Worships
- Chapter 13. The Ethical Cult(ure) Toolbox
- Chapter 14. Team Omega
- Chapter 15. Pondering the Yonder
- Conclusion The Four Horsemen Cometh
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- Appendix: Sexual Yoga of Becoming Study
- Index