Waking up : a guide to spirituality without religion

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Label

Waking up : a guide to spirituality without religion

Title remainder

a guide to spirituality without religion

Statement of responsibility

Sam Harris

Title variation

Guide to spirituality without religion

Creator

• Harris, Sam, 1967-

Subject

• Irreligion
• Meditation
• Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
• Spirituality

Language

eng

Summary

"For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris's new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology. Waking Up is for the 30 percent of Americans who follow no religion, but who suspect that Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Rumi, and the other saints and sages of history could not have all been epileptics, schizophrenics, or frauds. Throughout the book, Harris argues that there are important truths to be found in the experiences of such contemplatives--and, therefore, that there is more to understanding reality than science and secular culture generally allow. Waking Up is part seeker's memoir and part exploration of the scientific underpinnings of spirituality. No other book marries contemplative wisdom and modern science in this way" --

Assigning source

from publisher's web site

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

204

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult