Waking Up - A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

Sam Harris

Simon & Schuster

2014

256 páginas

8h 32m

ISBN-13: 9781451636017

For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harriss new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology.

From multiple New York Times bestselling author, neuroscientist, and new atheist Sam Harris, Waking Up is for the 30 percent of Americans who follow no religion, but who suspect that Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Rumi, and the other saints and sages of history could not have all been epileptics, schizophrenics, or frauds. Throughout the book, Harris argues that there are important truths to be found in the experiences of such contemplativesand, therefore, that there is more to understanding reality than science and secular culture generally allow.

Waking Up is part seekers 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 Harrisa scientist, philosopher, and famous skepticcould write it.

Resenhas (2)

3 (Bom)

A good reasoning

Reading Sam Harris is as clear and straightfoward as watching him speak on video. And that is the best part of it.

Intrigued by the book's approach and not knowing the author's background apart from his insightful (and yet pragmatic) takes on the importance of secularity, I must confess I expected more from this book.

More in the sense it gives the impression, at the beginning, that it will really guide us into techniques or practicing meditation, and it doesn't deliver it.

Instead, that is some good argument made on behalf of a spiritual search totally (?) aside from metaphysics.

Even though, I was not able to grasp the idea of a "headlessness" conscience that proves the illusion of the self but, somehow, remains imprisoned to matter or encapsulated in the brain.

Better luck in the next author's book, I wish.