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Sam Harris’ Waking Up. I’m sure that some of the neuroscience in it will become outdated, but its effect on my worldview and life trajectory can’t be understate
by ebb_earl_co 4y ago
Sam Harris’ Waking Up. I’m sure that some of the neuroscience in it will become outdated, but its effect on my worldview and life trajectory can’t be understated.
Perhaps this is apocryphal, but when Richard Feynman was asked what one sentence would contain the most information to bootstrap science after apocalypse, he said “everything is made of atoms”. Sam Harris parallels this with his one sentence for spiritual practice: “you are not this next thought”.
Being reminded of this annually by way of the excellent exposition of Waking Up seems to be the right move for me.
- imartin2k 4y agoHave you tried “I Am That” by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj? That would probably be my choice, but it’s very related (Harris praises it too). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_That https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_That
- andrei_says_ 4y agoThis is the book I came to recommend. It is different from almost anything else I've read in its causing an immediate shift of awareness which is beyond the intellectual / thinking process. It consists of conversations which modify being and a different state of being changes everything, instantaneously. This is my book - I open it almost every day. Not a story to re-read but a state of being to dissolve into.