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The Awakened Ape
- A Biohacker's Guide to Evolutionary Fitness, Natural Ecstasy, and Stress-Free Living
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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Summary
What secrets do Amazonian tribes, Himalayan hermits, and enlightened monks know about health and happiness that have been lost to the world today?
In The Awakened Ape, Jevan Pradas uses evolutionary psychology to hack the human mind and body to answer the question: "How can we enjoy life to the fullest?" The results, while unexpected, are completely backed by science.
Perpetually bored, anxious, fatigued, and overweight, modern society has failed to deliver the happiness it promised. The remedy, Jevan argues, is in a unique synthesis of a Paleolithic lifestyle and Buddhist meditation. A sprawling journey, featuring Jevan's adventures with naked Amazonian tribes and retreats with enlightened monks to learn the secrets of optimal well-being, The Awakened Ape will teach you how to achieve deep states of bliss. All while shaping your body into the fit and healthy animal millions of years of evolution programmed you to be.
You will learn how to meditate-from instructions for the absolute beginner to techniques for deep states of ecstasy and awakening; how to eat the optimally healthy diet for both physical and mental health; how to train the attention span so you can be focused and efficient all day long; how to exercise so that is fun, enjoyable, and something you look forward to; how to get rid of the habit of negative thinking in just one week; how to live like a caveman in the modern world in order to get the most out of your genetics; how to properly go to the bathroom (yes, you have been doing it wrong); and much, much, more....
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Enlightening life changer
Completely gave me a new outlook on life back by logic and science and I am blessed to have cane across such a book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 22-07-18
A must read for today’s spiritual warrior
One’s detailed opinion will not reflect another’s experience or journey.
Just read / listen to this book.
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- Jan Omar
- 19-07-23
Interesting
If you are interested in political correctness, question traditionally evolved gender roles or latest trends in woke ideology then perhaps this might not be the most enjoyable book for you.
Setting aside the above, to my mind at least the book points to a path of self awareness, meditation though in somewhat long and winding way. The book covers lifestyle changes including meditation, diet & exercise while contrasting modern lifestyle to hunter gatherers to which our bodies have evolved.
I particularly enjoyed the point on external world being our own subjective reality conjured up in our minds and subject to limitations of human mind and senses. I liked how the author connects all this to the ability of the snake to ‘see’ in infrared or dogs & bats being able to hear finer frequencies of sound. Overall an interesting perspective on human life.
I would’ve liked a more pointed and shorter book without some digressions and waffle but still worth a listen/read.
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- Anonymous User
- 31-08-18
Fantastic book
The overall concept of the book is brilliant. The take home ideas of living a hunter gatherer lifestyle combined with meditation were well presented through the book with practical advice on how to implement.
I personally found the middle section of the book laboured a little too long over the same point, but overall the book flowed well.
I have placed this as a “must-read” for the people I work with who want to learn the health benefits of a lifestyle we evolved to live in combined with the enlightened aspect of meditation practice.
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- D M Green
- 18-06-19
Fascinating
Such an interesting book that has the potential to be life changing. Lots of powerful ideas about being human that are well worth considering.
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- Oeyvind Andreassen
- 11-05-23
Great and easy
Loved it. Easy to listen to and informative. Covers a lot of different topics. I could repeat listening to some of the chapters
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- Leire
- 01-08-18
Better called "The awakened patriarchal MALE ape"
Although the book discusses very interesting facts and some fascinating issues, is obviously written by a man for a male audience, without any gender perspective, and even with splashes of few sexist comments here and there. The book ignores (deliberately?) all the recent studies about evolution which suggest that ancient hunter and gatherer societies didn't have strict patriarchal gender roles as we always tend to imagine, and our bodies and brains evolved accordingly. As an example, there is thousands of athletic women around the planet who are long distance runners, triathloners, climbers, divers, swimmers, etc. Obviously they feel the same impulses and thrill as men do while practising these intense endurance activities, and their body and brain is as well adapted as the males. This make no sense if , as the book seems to suggest, women have being for hundreds of thousands of years only collecting veggies, having babies and gossiping with the girlfriends ( yes, the book mention this several times ! )
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- Amazon Customer
- 20-09-18
Informative and practical
A combination of science and practical steps to be at peace with oneself. Everything this in our head, everything is also not real and nothing matters... yet we still need to work and take the kids to school... this book helps us to appreciate what we have. Life is a brief journey. I tried the meditation, it is difficult. If I can improve on the that then all the other problems will be reduced. Definitely a thought provoking and enjoyable listen.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-03-19
Exceptional book!
Interesting, deep, invited for reflection, and funny at times. I’ve read a lot of books in this genre and I feel that Jevan managed to mix several unusual aspects together in a brilliant manner. Strongly recommend!
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- dave aber
- 11-08-18
great listen
the only criticism of this book is a little too much on the stories of tribes and not enough on the how too.
very enjoyable though good narrator, content and length.
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