Waking Up — Spirituality Without Religion | Deep Dive
In this episode of Crisis in Perception, we examine Waking Up by Sam Harris.This book explores spirituality and consciousness from a fully secular perspective, rejecting supernatural belief while arguing that profound insights about the mind, self, and suffering are accessible through reason, meditation, and neuroscience.Key themes include:Why the sense of a permanent “self” is an illusionHow mindfulness and contemplative practice reshape perceptionThe overlap between Buddhist insight and modern neuroscienceWhat split-brain research reveals about consciousnessThe careful role psychedelics can…
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