5 ways to unlock your brain’s ancient pleasure centers | Jamie Wheal for Big Think

Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ►► Check out Jamie Wheal’s latest book “Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex and Death in a World That’s Lost Its Mind“ ►► For our own mental health, we must occasionally disconnect from the world and reconnect to ourselves and to each other. This leads us to some of the most powerful and often taboo things that humans have ever experienced. They include: breathing, sexuality, embodiment, substances, and music — what Jamie Wheal calls the Alchemist Cookbook. Read the video transcript: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Jamie Wheal: Jamie Wheal is the author of the global best-seller and Pulitzer Prize-nominated Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, Navy SEALs and Maverick Scientists are Rev