Jaap Stronks reviewed Waking Up by Sam Harris
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1 star
Sam Harris is an islamophobe bigot. His book leans heavily on thought experiments without much intellectual merit.
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion is a 2014 book by Sam Harris that discusses a wide range of topics including secular spirituality (essentially within the context of spiritual naturalism), the illusion of the self, psychedelics, and meditation. He attempts to show that a certain form of spirituality is integral to understanding the nature of the mind. In late September 2014, the book reached #5 on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers list.In September 2018 Harris released a meditation app entitled "Waking Up with Sam Harris." Harris' podcast had previously been titled Waking Up, but he retitled it Making Sense to differentiate it from his meditation app.
Sam Harris is an islamophobe bigot. His book leans heavily on thought experiments without much intellectual merit.