Waking Up Waking Up

Waking Up

A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

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Publisher Description

For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s latest New York Times bestseller is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology.

From Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of numerous New York Times bestselling books, Waking Up is for the twenty percent of Americans who follow no religion but who suspect that important truths can be found in the experiences of such figures as Jesus, the Buddha, Lao Tzu, Rumi, and the other saints and sages of history. Throughout this book, Harris argues that there is more to understanding reality than science and secular culture generally allow, and that how we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the quality of our lives.

Waking Up is part 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 skeptic—could write it.

GENRE
Health, Mind & Body
RELEASED
2014
September 9
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
256
Pages
PUBLISHER
Simon & Schuster
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Digital Sales LLC
SIZE
4.7
MB

Customer Reviews

Algil11 ,

Thinker's Companion

Sam has written a guide for the thinker and spiritual person in all of us. He does a great job of using science to break down consciousness into its individual components. This "sum-of-it's-parts" explanation is very satisfying to the thinker in me but my spiritual self still feels like he was trying to tell me something more that I'm still working at grasping. I'm going to hold onto this book as I continue on my own spiritual journey. I have the feeling ill want to reference it again.

llcawthorne ,

Highly recommended and generally practical

An excellent read explaining how certain spiritual practices need not necessarily conflict with a disbelief in god(s). As both an atheist and practitioner of mindfulness meditation, I appreciate Sam's well researched and reasoned point of view, if for no other reason than to feel less of a need to explain my meditative practices to others without faith in the supernatural. I can just point them to this book! No faith is required since nothing could be less "supernatural" than internal states of mind, as we have them everyday even if a full explanation of them has yet to be rendered. I hope it opens up discussion in the atheist community to what spiritual practices may be worthy of further investigation and discussion.

nipponfraser ,

Introspection at a high level

Highly balanced in his assertions, Harris builds a solid case for a departure from ordinary cognitive thought.

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