'Waking Up' is a thinking person's guide to spirituality from a secular point of view.
Taking a partly autobiographical account of the author's own search for spiritual practices — along with scientific knowledge about the nature of experience itself — few other books address the limits of secular culture as it stands while maintaining a rational basis for introspection.
Sam Harris is the CEO and cofounder of Project Reason. He received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.
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'Waking Up' is a thinking person's guide to spirituality from a secular point of view. Taking a partly autobiographical account of the author's own search for spiritual practices — along with scientific knowledge about the nature of experience itself — few other books address the limits of secular culture as it stands while maintaining a rational basis for introspection. Sam Harris is the CEO and cofounder of Project Reason. He received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.