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Book SynopsisSaid even more plainly, it shows us how to revitalize our bodies, boost our creativity, rekindle our relationships, and answer once and for all the questions of why we are here and what do we do now? In a world that needs the best of us from the rest of us, this is a book that shows us how to get it done.Trade Review“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 “The death of belief has led to a collapse of meaning, and many of us are looking to neuroscience and psychology for inspiration and understanding. Wheal knows that peak states bring about deep healing, and he is here to deliver. This enrapturing book not only details various drivers of our cultural evolution, it becomes one itself.” — Julie Holland, MD, Author of Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection From Soul to Psychedelics and Weekends at Bellevue "A highly personal, richly informed and culturally wide-ranging mediation on the loss of meaning in our times and on pathways to rediscovering it, from breath through psychedelics--a search fueled by Jamie Wheal’s boundless curiosity and commitment to transformation." — Gabor Maté M.D., Author: In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction “Can humanity survive today’s exponential world change? Doomsayers say NO--we’re flying blind in the spiraling collapse of civilization. But Wheal offers us a savvy, intriguing and novel roadmap to self-renewal. And it’s packed with literary, cultural, historical and biological references as well. You won’t forget this gem--it’s a fascinating read.” — Dr. Helen Fisher, Senior Research Fellow, The Kinsey Institute, Chief Scientist, Match.com, author Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love "Recapture the Rapture offers an invaluable roadmap for transformational consciousness and culture, filled with practical tools to harness our healing, reclaim our inspiration and connect to each other for the road ahead." — Rick Doblin, Founder and Executive Director, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) "This apocalypse is far more complicated than end-times usually are, but Jamie navigates the complexities with rigor and merciless wit. He’s one of those writers who frustrates my desire to make disparaging generalisations about non-Indigenous thought!" — Tyson Yunkaporta Author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, Apalech Clan "Recapture the Rapture is both a hymnal and an operations manual for the party at the end of the world-as-we-know-it. The cure for spiritual bypassing and conspirituality is not more mindfulness, it seems, but a redemptive and mutant religiosity that dives into the deep end of our contemporary catastrophe." — Erik Davis, author, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the 70s "I have a feeling that like most readers, I'm closer to those who have lost the rapture than those who live in it. Luckily for us, Jamie Wheal has laid out a fun and accessible path to reclaiming the ecstasy that makes life not merely worth living, but possible in the first place and sustainable in the long run." — Douglas Rushkoff, Author of Team Human, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus "In his rhythmic prose, Wheal crafts A mystical balm. A fool-proof formula for transcendence. And the kind of sacraments here, at the end of history, that could spawn the much-needed recognition of our shared humanity.." — Brian Muraresku, Author NYT Bestseller The Immortality Key "The way forward, argues Wheal...is to rediscover and reinvent our humanity in radical ways that places community, respect for ourselves, the planet and the human species at the center of our strategy for survival; and it’s a strategy that can work for everyone." — Dennis McKenna PhD Ethnopharmacology, Author Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss and The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching

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Book Synopsis'The Web of Meaning is both a profound personal meditation on human existence and a tour-de-force weaving together of historic and contemporary world-wide secular and spiritual thought on the deepest question of all: why are we here?' Gabor Maté M.D., author, In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction 'We need, now more than ever, to figure out how to make all kinds of connections. This book can help--and therefore it can help with a lot of the urgent tasks we face.' Bill McKibben, author, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? As our civilization careens towards a precipice of climate breakdown, ecological destruction and gaping inequality, people are losing their existential moorings. Our dominant worldview of disconnection, which tells us we are split between mind and body, separate from each other, and at odds with the natural world, has passed its expiration date. Yet another world is possible. Award-winning author, Jeremy Lent, investigates humanity's age-old questions - who am I? why am I? how should I live? - from a fresh perspective, weaving together findings from modern systems thinking, evolutionary biology and cognitive neuroscience with insights from Buddhism, Taoism and indigenous wisdom. The result is a breathtaking accomplishment: a rich, coherent worldview based on a deep recognition of connectedness within ourselves, between each other, and with the entire natural world.Trade ReviewThe Web of Meaning is both a profound personal meditation on human existence and, as its title implies, a tour-de-force weaving together of historic and contemporary world-wide secular and spiritual thought on the deepest question of all: why are we here? -- Gabor Maté M.D., author of * In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction *We need, now more than ever, to figure out how to make all kinds of connections. This book can help--and therefore it can help with a lot of the urgent tasks we face. -- Bill McKibben, author of * Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? *There are so many ways to understand the world, and so many levels to be integrated, that everyone can use the guidance of Jeremy Lent. Moving from the ancient Tao to modern neuroscience and everything in between, he boldly weaves deep insights together to envision a better world. -- Frans de Waal, author of * Mama’s Last Hug - Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves *A book of radial and profound wisdom ... a magnificent manifesto for a regenerative culture and for an ecological civilisation ... the book beautifully address some of the most complex questions of life -- Satish Kumar,Editor Emeritus, Resurgence & Ecologist and Founder of Schumacher College.Praise for The Patterning Instinct: 'The most profound and far-reaching book I have ever read -- George MonbiotSuch an important, necessary, and wise book -- John HiggsCultures shape values, and those values shape history. By the same token, our values will shape our future. One way to equip yourself for this heroic task will be to read this enormous, learned, yet garrulous and helpful book. * New Scientist *One of the most brilliant and insightful minds of our age, Jeremy Lent has written one of the most essential and compelling books of our time. The Web of Meaning invites us to rethink at the deepest level who we are as a species and what we might become. -- David Korten author of * When Corporations Rule the World, The Great Turning *A widely ranging, deeply penetrating, and healingly prescriptive consideration of how to reposition humanity within the world. Lent's ideas, drawn from all around the globe from antiquity to the present, provide a vision for a better shot at survival and a life that is worthwhile for our time-and for the rest of time -- Carl Safina author of * Beyond Words and Becoming Wild *It is hard to build new regenerative narratives that honor the old without being in extractive relation to non-western lands and peoples, but this book is a damn good start. This book is a good place to sit for anybody interested in binding the wounds of thoughtless progress and allowing the emergence of new patterns of being. -- Tyson Yunkaporta, author of * Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World *

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Book SynopsisWe have lost the plot when it comes to migration. In our collective consciousness, the term 'migration' conjures up images of hordes of refugees fleeing 'their' country, escaping on rafts and coming to invade 'ours'. When we think of migration, we think of (largely unwanted) immigration and its ills. We've got it all wrong. Far from being abnormal, the act of going in search of a better life is at the core of the human experience. And now a new kind of nomad is emerging. What used to be a movement largely from east to west, south to north, developing to developed country is becoming more of a multilateral phenomenon with each passing day. Young people from everywhere are moving everywhere. Or rather, they are moving to where they expect to improve their lives and are turning the world into a beauty contest of cities and regions and companies vying to attract them. They are doing so because movement has become a key to their Trade Review'Highly engaging… a must-read. Through his very personal lens, Marquardt forces you to think about the ethics and economics of one of the central issues of all times.' -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan'On the Road meets Sapiens. Felix Marquardt makes you want to hit the road and embrace the whole wide world as a means to save it. The New Nomads is sure to become a cult book for my generation and the coming ones.' -- Joshua Wong, leader of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution'An intelligent and insightful analysis of one of the great issues of our age, laced with some powerful real-life examples and culminating in a number of thought-provoking recommendations for change... A thoughtful and refreshingly optimistic take on one of most urgent and complex issues of our time.' -- Paul Polman, former CEO, Unilever'A hymn of praise to the human spirit ever questing in search of the better and the just and the beautiful and the new. Let it never die. And it never will while the humanity of nomads like Felix Marquardt survives COVID19 and flourishes again thereafter.' -- Lord Adonis, former Secretary of State for Transport'The New Nomads belongs not to the privileged but to the hungry: hungry for wisdom, hungry for adventure, hungry for life. Marquardt places travel, even migration, back in its ancient setting of mythic education: you leave the village to find the part of you that the village could not provide... His writing is filled with wit and challenge. It is a rare gift to be both raconteur and truth teller, and Felix Marquardt is both.' -- Martin Shaw, author of Smoke Hole: Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass'Highly compelling... When I met him during his International Herald Tribune years, Felix Marquardt was already an irrepressible Jack of all trades with an uncanny ability to bring very different people together from all over human society and the world. The New Nomads is a profound, timely statement on the power of migration as an exponentially generative process.' -- Celso Amorim, former Brazilian Foreign Minister'Felix Marquardt brings a rich experience of life, intelligence and empathy into this exploration of youth, migration, and even the implications of thermodynamics for the new nomads! The stories are compelling, revealing humanity behind faces masked by stereotypes.' -- Frank Wilczek, Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, MIT, Nobel Prize 2004, author of Fundamentals'Thought-provoking. Here is a book that breaks through conventional wisdom to show that localism and globalism can - and need to - work together.' -- Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, author of Expulsions'In the popular imagination, there are migrants, there are immigrants, and there are expats, all distinguished by race and economics. In this fresh and compelling book, Felix Marquardt blurs those lines, emphasising the humanity and fundamental curiosity of all of us who seek, wander and move.' -- Jill Filipovic, CNN / Washington Post Contributor, author of The H Spot'Masterful! The New Nomads is a deeply poetic exploration of migration and its role in the human journey. The stories form a compelling tapestry: the path forward isn't left or right, neither about pinning all our hopes on technology nor forsaking it, but embracing what makes us all human.' -- Sigurlína Ingvarsdóttir, senior producer of Star Wars Battlefront & EA Sports FIFA'We are regularly encouraged to put ourselves into other people’s shoes. Hardly anyone ever actually does. Felix invites us to do precisely this: to change shoes and keep walking, eyes wide open. And change shoes again, many times, as we wander... The New Nomads is truly a remarkable journey - one you shouldn’t miss!' -- Bertrand Badré, CEO, Blue Like an Orange; former Managing Director, World Bank'Holding aloft the migrant as perhaps the most electrifying figure of our time, The New Nomads deeply moves me. Felix Marquardt’s profound exploration is no less than a political theology of migration.' -- Bayo Akomolafe, author of These Wilds Beyond our Fences'As a refugee from the economic elites and a survivor of the great plague of addiction, Felix has a unique perspective on an immutable law of nature - nothing stays put for long... His stories and commentaries remind us that we all live under this law.' -- Tyson Yunkaporta, author of Sand Talk - How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World'Felix Marquardt set out to write a celebration of hyper-mobility, but something far more interesting happened along the way. He has given us a depiction of the complex patterns of migration in the early 21st century that is also a critique of the Davos elite.' -- Dougald Hine, co-author of Uncivilisation – The Dark Mountain Manifesto'Felix Marquardt's The New Nomads provides a welcome and brilliantly written antidote to the nativism that continues to fester in our more privileged societies... As we follow Marquardt on this fascinating journey, we learn that, in his words, all migrations are a search for home.' -- Stan Cox, author of Any Way You Slice It and The Green New Deal and Beyond'TNN is benign TNT. The New Nomads has that uncommon, rare ability to speak radically and deeply in a quiet, calm tone. It doesn’t shout or scare or turn the reader off. It’s also a story of the adventure of nomadism as well its power to connect us with one another.' -- Bill Vitek, Professor of Philosophy, Middlebury College; editor/co-author of The Virtues of Ignorance'A work of deep hospitality, humanity, prophetic wisdom and of hope for our planet.' -- Father Brendan O’Rourke, Congregatio Sanctissimi Redemptoris'Remarkable... The nomadism extolled by Felix Marquardt isn't only geographic: it is social, intellectual, political in the broader sense. It is an art of moving, of blurring borders, of changing one's mind, of never forgetting that the truth always has a foot in the opposing camp, of surprising others and even more oneself.' -- Emmanuel Carrere, author of The Adversary and Other Lives But Mine'A well-written and highly enjoyable read. Felix sets out to challenge preconceptions... Readers may not agree with all the author's assertions but they will be obliged to stop and think.' -- Pauline Neville-Jones, former Minister of State for Security and Counter-terrorism'This book needs to be read. Urgently. Run and get it, take it in and notice your worldview evolve... Marquardt's prose is eminently inclusive and accessible. It brings the reader in seamlessly, allowing us to grapple with difficult and complicated issues through real-life examples. The New Nomads debunks stereotypes and sheds light on the hidden complexities of our world, showing that the pervasive injustice of our day and age is in no small measure about mobility.' -- Anwar Ibrahim, former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia and current Leader of the Opposition'In these times of cultural warfare, [Marquardt's] new nomads bring us back to our common shared humanity.' -- Marc Lambron, Academie Francaise

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