Jul 4, 2022
"What does it mean to be human on this earth? What does it mean to wake to the depth of this answer at a time of massive accelerating consequences?" - Jamie Wheal.
Isra Garcia interviews Neuroanthropologist and world expert on Peak Performance Jamie Wheal in his last book, Recapture the Rapture. It's a conversation that combines neuroanthropology, culture architecture, peak experiences and human potential to help us create a better future. This episode calls for focusing on what matters most in your life and the world. Other topics Jamie and Isra discussed include biohacking, psychedelics, lifehacking, sexuality, mystical states, staying awake, helping out, and what it means to be human today.
"Music, mushrooms and sports and nature have turned
around my early life"
Jamie Wheal is
the author of the global best-seller and Pulitzer
Prize-nominated Stealing Fire: and the founder of the
Flow Genome Project, an international organization dedicated to the
research and training of ultimate human performance. Since founding
the organization in 2011, it has become the leading voice of
evidence-based peak performance worldwide, counting award-winning
academics, legendary professional athletes, notable operations
commanders, and Fortune 500 business leaders among the hundreds of
thousands of people in its global community.
"This gift of human life is insufficient"
- Jamie Wheal.
Now Jamie is
presenting his new book Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex
and Death in a World That's Lost Its Mind. A book where a peak
performance and leadership expert, specialising in the neuroscience
and application of Flow states, 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.
"There is a relationship between pain, suffering and
healing, and very few of us actually understand it, embrace it and
work with it consciously"
"How do you balance the agony and the
ecstasy?" - Jamie Wheal
Index of contents
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Jamie's most important milestones
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How do we prepare ourselves for an uncertain future
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Building Blocks of culture architecture
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The antidote for a world that has lost its mind
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Hedonic Engineering
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Why Recapture the Rapture, and why go on such a quest?
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What is sexual fitness
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Sexual yoga of becoming
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Jamie's favourite set of practices
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Engaging with substances in a very therapeutic way
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The emotional, intellectual and spiritual cost of this new set of practices
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The most astonishing thing about writing Recapture the Rapture
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Final message.
"If you experience the wound of the world, that will
crush you if you don't have the love and the light and the
wholeness and the inspiration to counterbalance
it"
Podcast show notes
- Recapture the Rapture - book.
- Sam Harris.
- Cercle youtube channel.
- Raphael Mechoulam.
- Tonglen meditation.
- The Body Keeps the Score- book.
- Rick Doblin.
- Love Drugs - book.
- Alexandre Shulgin.
- Flow Genome Project Facebook.
- Flow Genome Project Instagram.
- Flow Genome Project Twitter.
- Flow Genome Project.
- Homegrown Humans podcast.
"Evolution is amoral, it doesn't give a
fuck" - Jamie Wheal