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Pay wall. Side note: I haven't liked anything of Harris since about 20 years ago during the new atheist movement, any suggestions for some of his more recent w

Pay wall. Side note: I haven't liked anything of Harris since about 20 years ago during the new atheist movement, any suggestions for some of his more recent work?

hleszek 2y ago
And that paywall is so annoying... As it is further down the page you don't realize it's paywalled and have time to get immersed in the story before you get stopped abruptly.
liamwire 2y ago
I found his book Waking Up to be a phenomenal resource in discussing meditation, psychedelics, and spirituality without reaching for religion/unscientific guesswork. Free Will and On Lying were both interesting, shorter reads that I thought to be very persuasive as well.
- imartin2k 2y ago
  And his Waking Up app is amazing, and life changing (if one is open to practicing seeing consciousness as it is).
  - jfengel 2y ago
    I did a 30 day trial of Waking Up, gifted from a friend who also finds it life-changing. I did my best with it, but it didn't change my life. It was fine; sitting quietly for ten minutes a day is probably a good idea. I appreciated that he tried to avoid using woo-woo language, but I often didn't understand what he was going for. That's probably inevitable: he's trying to induce a state that you can't get a feel for until you've done it. (I'm reminded of learning to whistle. I put my lips together and blew, and kept doing that until suddenly it worked, but I could not tell anybody what made that instant different.) I will say, though, that I often thought "If Sam Harris heard some yoga teacher say that, he'd rip them a new one." It is entirely possible that I'd see more benefit if I continued past the 30 day trial. Clearly it works very well for some people; I'm certain that there's a "there" there. It's definitely better than trying to gaze into my soul through the backs of my eyeballs (which I did in fact hear from a yoga teacher).
profstasiak 2y ago
he's book "On Lying" is a short read but definitely life changing for me. Of the reasons I started trying to live my life as honestly as I can
rstuart4133 2y ago
It wasn't paywalled for me. Perhaps it's changed?

Pay wall. Side note: I haven't liked anything of Harris since about 20 years ago during the new atheist movement, any suggestions for some of his more recent work?

hleszek 2y ago

And that paywall is so annoying... As it is further down the page you don't realize it's paywalled and have time to get immersed in the story before you get stopped abruptly.

liamwire 2y ago

I found his book Waking Up to be a phenomenal resource in discussing meditation, psychedelics, and spirituality without reaching for religion/unscientific guesswork. Free Will and On Lying were both interesting, shorter reads that I thought to be very persuasive as well.

imartin2k 2y ago
And his Waking Up app is amazing, and life changing (if one is open to practicing seeing consciousness as it is).
- jfengel 2y ago
  I did a 30 day trial of Waking Up, gifted from a friend who also finds it life-changing. I did my best with it, but it didn't change my life. It was fine; sitting quietly for ten minutes a day is probably a good idea. I appreciated that he tried to avoid using woo-woo language, but I often didn't understand what he was going for. That's probably inevitable: he's trying to induce a state that you can't get a feel for until you've done it. (I'm reminded of learning to whistle. I put my lips together and blew, and kept doing that until suddenly it worked, but I could not tell anybody what made that instant different.) I will say, though, that I often thought "If Sam Harris heard some yoga teacher say that, he'd rip them a new one." It is entirely possible that I'd see more benefit if I continued past the 30 day trial. Clearly it works very well for some people; I'm certain that there's a "there" there. It's definitely better than trying to gaze into my soul through the backs of my eyeballs (which I did in fact hear from a yoga teacher).

profstasiak 2y ago

he's book "On Lying" is a short read but definitely life changing for me. Of the reasons I started trying to live my life as honestly as I can

rstuart4133 2y ago

It wasn't paywalled for me. Perhaps it's changed?