Jamie Wheal is a Pulitzer nominated neuro-anthropologist specializing in altered states. His critiques of contemporary “conscious” culture are known for saying all the quiet parts out loud. He does not believe in most things, but has many suspicions. Despite his best efforts at remaining obscure, his work has been translated into dozens of languages and featured in the Financial Times, New York Times, TED and Wired.

Gimme That Old Time Religion: Rational Mysticism vs. Western Chauvinism

We’re in a Meaning Crisis. People are getting swept to the extremes of Nihilism and diseases of despair on one hand, or Fundamentalism and rigid belief on the other.    Nature abhors a vacuum. But so does culture.  If we don’t take a stand for Rational Mysticism we’re going to get National Mysticisms instead. (and we know how that goes).  What might a Western Legacy look like, if we revived its twin pillars–the Eleusinian Mysteries, and Christian Ethics? And can we use it to fill that “God-shaped hole in our hearts” before something more devious divides us?