He has advised the executives at Deloitte, Red Bull, Google, Lululemon, Facebook, TD Ameritrade, Nike, and Goldman Sachs. The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.”― Frank Zappa When will this second coming of Christ and our being gathered to him occur? The best answer we can give with any certainty is that it will be at the end of this age. In Matthew 24:3 Jesus’ disciples ask about Jesus coming and the end of the age. Jesus’ response to their question culminates with the passage mentioned above with Jesus’ return and our being gathered to him. To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.” ― Pema Chödrön Next we get introduced to the now obvious task of establishing Meaning 3.0 (I guess they'll have to coexist in ways that build coherence with each other, so the others would have to change in the shapes that would allow that in their process of being (re)sculpted into reality).

This is a book on the biggest sort of thinking -- from personal to societal -- written by an author with an eye for what matters, an ear for story and a mind for the sublime." — David Eagleman, Neuroscientist at Stanford, New York Times bestselling author of Livewired and Incognito, and host of PBS The Brain Sexuality – If we don’t procreate we die. So there are tons of neurochemical drivers baked into our systems to ensure we do. Favourite word mentioned: "Golden Shadow" - not the dark parts we have a hard time owning up to but the bright parts we are afraid to own.

Story of navy seals testing tongue electrical stimulation to detect changes in elevation while diving. Also helped prevent the bends

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. A big part of Jamie’s message and the solution moving forward is psychedelics enabling us a deeper state of consciousness. Like that would be a truer reality than our everyday one.

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History is littered with the stories of joyful ecstatic experiments violently suppressed by the powers that be. Someone discovers a direct route to liberation that threatens to cut out the established middlemen, and they’re rarely welcomed with open arms. Try to storm heaven and there’s almost certainly hell to pay. All these features of human sexuality - long term sexual partnership, private sex, concealed ovulation, extended female receptivity, sex for fun… that render human sexuality so distinctive…” - citing a renowned anthropologist. I agree that body and mind should be treated together, not separately. But Lisa Feldman did not dismantle anything. There are many scenarios of the end times that have been drawn from Jesus’ Revelation to John. But I do not find that there are any unambiguous references to the rapture contained in Revelation. Much of how one interprets Revelation is based upon their eschatological perspective. So, for that reason, I have chosen not to include anything from Revelation in this discussion. But there are three passages in the New Testament that do provide us with explicit information about this event.

Or GDP of countries generally correlates negatively with their religiosity. So rich countries tend to be less religious. The author goes on to point out the crumbling of the major structures that were holding us and our beliefs together so far: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.