Waking Up: Searching for Spirituality Without Religion
Sep 2014 · Random House
4.4star
41 reviews
Ebook
256
Pages
About this ebook
'An extraordinary book . . . It will shake up your most fundamental beliefs about everyday experience, and it just might change your life.' Paul Bloom
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For the millions of people who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris's new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology.
Throughout the book, Harris argues that there are important truths to be found in the experience of contemplatives such as Jesus, Buddha and other saints and sages of history-and, therefore, that there is more to understanding reality than science and secular culture generally allow.
Waking Up is part seeker's memoir and part exploration of the scientific underpinnings of spirituality. No other book marries contemplative wisdom and modern science in this way, and no author other than Sam Harris-a scientist, philosopher, and famous sceptic-could write it.
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'A demanding, illusion-shattering book.' Kirkus Reviews
'A pleasure to read.' Huffington Post
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For the millions of people who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris's new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology.
Throughout the book, Harris argues that there are important truths to be found in the experience of contemplatives such as Jesus, Buddha and other saints and sages of history-and, therefore, that there is more to understanding reality than science and secular culture generally allow.
Waking Up is part seeker's memoir and part exploration of the scientific underpinnings of spirituality. No other book marries contemplative wisdom and modern science in this way, and no author other than Sam Harris-a scientist, philosopher, and famous sceptic-could write it.
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'A demanding, illusion-shattering book.' Kirkus Reviews
'A pleasure to read.' Huffington Post
Ratings and reviews
4.4
41 reviews
John Laidlaw
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February 19, 2016
Excellent if you want to perform brain surgery. Seemed to be more of a case of showing off his knowledge of the make up and functioning of the brain. Almost a medical treatise. Not for me. Sorry.
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Yusuf Shakir
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December 14, 2018
Helped me clear up many doubts. Interesting read for science enthusiast interested in meditation and understanding non-self Sets up the basis for rational understanding of awakening informed by neuroscience as well as subjective experience.
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Imperial Walls & Ceilings
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October 11, 2017
Balanced ad informative. Probably need to read a few times as i couldnt take in all the info in one reading
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About the author
Sam Harris is the author of five New York Times bestsellers. His books include The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, and Waking Up. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. His work has been published in more than twenty languages. Harris has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Economist, The Times, the Boston Globe, the Atlantic, Annals of Neurology, and other outlets. He received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a PhD in neuroscience from UCLA. Please visit his website at SamHarris.org.
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