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Pros
Sam harris clearly hits his mark in describing the specious notion of the self. Harris is an informative skeptic who highlights the correlation between human consciousness, spirituality, science, and history. Sam harris es un autor fascinante.
The author is a sensible and intelligent writer. He has real interest in delivering valuable and relevant information. I find this book so refreshing.
Cons
Harris wants to warn people that many of these self-proclaimed. Godhood may have nefarious ends, but is the right angle for this book? He continues his target practice on damming any extreme conservative based christianity and islam, as fascists.
There are a couple of gems that are useful to the seeker of spirituality without the religious trappings, but they are far and few between. It is irresponsible to recommend them to anyone. It also wastes time explaining why buddhism is better or somet... Read More
This book is silly and stupidly sophisticated because it is a subtle attempt to relegate spiritual experience to material causes by redefining spirituality. They hear adults talking how there is much light in the playroom. This book does an especially... Read More
Harris adheres to the belief in scientific materialism but offers no evidence for that belief system. This book completely ignores the context in which the self has been scientifically studied.
I'm no psychonaut but saying that psychedelics are a dangerous coin toss between enlightenment and a personal eternal * is just ridiculous" "they start this “research” by having an obvious agenda of proving the efficacy of the drugs" "i nt recc throwi... Read More
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Quality
High quality writing and thoughts presented by a brilliant man
Succinct precise honest and clear sam delivers a look into the practice of mindfulness without the pseudo spiritual baggage tha... Read More
Waking up is up is a plaintive attempt to come to grips with the slippery concept of consciousnesses in order to justify years ... Read More
Seriously hardcopy first but then the kindle version later so i could easily copy out the tons of quotable material for my own... Read More
Price
Sam offers a strong case for the value of contemplative practice without depending on religious thinking
Shipping
I devoured this book in 4 days
Packaging/appearance
Product is in condition as described and came on time
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spiritual, self, good and religious. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- This product had a total of 8,409 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 22 2024.
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Im less than 14 of the way through so this is an early review
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Im an atheist and think all religions are cults so i had to watch my own smugness as he was deconstructing each of the world religions and a time or two i felt i was seeing some similar arrogance from him too
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However with the next couple of sentences he backed up his case
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So even though im in agreement with him im also not just accepting things at face value as well as i can anyway
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Im actually reading it and ive hated trying to absorb information from books for many years now
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Im just beginning to get into the techniques part
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I already do mindfulness meditation at a basic level so
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It was a bit different from what i expected bit i learned a lot
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