"What does it means 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.  "My early life has been turned around by music, mushrooms and sports and nature"     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 in the world, counting award-winning academics, legendary professional athletes, special 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, specialized 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 Jamie's most important milestones How do we prepare ourselves for an uncertain future Building blocks of culture architecture The antidote for a world that has lost its mind Hedonic Engineering Why Recapture the Rapture, and why go on such a quest. What is sexual fitness Sexual yoga of becoming Jamie's favourite set of practices Engaging with substances in a very therapeutically way The emotional, intellectual and spiritual cost of this new set of practices The most astonishing thing about writing Recapture the Rapture 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