A neuroanthropologist 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. 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.

Let’s get practical. Five of the most potent and accessible physical drivers to shape consciousness and culture and help us build Meaning 3.0 are: In 1 Corinthians 15 Paul defends the future resurrection of believers. And in vers es 50-55 he describes what that will be like. It will happen in a moment, at the last trumpet. When the trumpet sounds, the dead will be raised, and the living believers will be changed. Barrett put her perspective in contrast to what she calls "the classical view of emotions". However, there isn't as such a clear classical view of emotions. There are certain theories which over the years has gradually evolved… all the solutions she provides, are solutions which has existed for a very long time, and has been developed by people who believed in fx "basic emotions" which belongs to her category "the classical view of emotions".

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.

Now, hold up right there though. Let's remember. We are human. We get carried away. We may not know the difference between a blessing being a blessing and a blessing becoming a curse. Or the other way around, really.Some books are important but hard to get through; this one was a joy to read. The author's use of humor made the vast amount of information easy to take in and digest. His style is pithy and poetic. 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.