Buy new:
-33% $11.99
FREE delivery Tuesday, May 14 on orders shipped by Amazon over $35
Ships from: Amazon.com
Sold by: Amazon.com
$11.99 with 33 percent savings
List Price: $18.00

The List Price is the suggested retail price of a new product as provided by a manufacturer, supplier, or seller. Except for books, Amazon will display a List Price if the product was purchased by customers on Amazon or offered by other retailers at or above the List Price in at least the past 90 days. List prices may not necessarily reflect the product's prevailing market price.
Learn more
Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime FREE Returns
FREE delivery Tuesday, May 14 on orders shipped by Amazon over $35
Or fastest delivery Thursday, May 9. Order within 16 hrs 8 mins
In Stock
$$11.99 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details
Price
Subtotal
$$11.99
Subtotal
Initial payment breakdown
Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout.
Ships from
Amazon.com
Ships from
Amazon.com
Sold by
Amazon.com
Sold by
Amazon.com
Returns
Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt
Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt
This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt.
Read full return policy
Returns
Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt
This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt.
Read full return policy
Payment
Secure transaction
Your transaction is secure
We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more
Payment
Secure transaction
We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more
$9.17
Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime FREE Returns
Item shows sign of wear and previous use. The item may contain light to moderate marking. Item shows sign of wear and previous use. The item may contain light to moderate marking. See less
FREE delivery Wednesday, May 15 on orders shipped by Amazon over $35
Only 1 left in stock - order soon.
$$11.99 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details
Price
Subtotal
$$11.99
Subtotal
Initial payment breakdown
Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout.
Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.
Amazon book clubs early access
Loading your book clubs
There was a problem loading your book clubs. Please try again.
Not in a club? Learn more
Amazon book clubs early access

Join or create book clubs

Choose books together

Track your books
Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free.
Explore Amazon Book Clubs
Kindle app logo image

Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.

Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web.

Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.

QR code to download the Kindle App

Follow the author

Sam Harris
+ Follow
More books from this author
Something went wrong. Please try your request again later.

Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion Paperback – June 16, 2015

by Sam Harris (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 8,527 ratings
Goodreads Choice Award nominee
See all formats and editions
{"desktop_buybox_group_1":[{"displayPrice":"$11.99","priceAmount":11.99,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"11","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"99","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"fgh2tOC8Vzy35nR4hbT52B%2FjwNypo9%2BFMU4WOX0aL03NaCxA1RIZDs8jN3iNXZ6zAmMAlJbl37aQU0HfZbiJbBfQ%2B8qyhP4MihKf5P0lDLtQ9f3FSwAc%2FxQlr7hG%2F3NPqCFqdErlnrCeuMUH0fDzjQ%3D%3D","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"NEW","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":0}, {"displayPrice":"$9.17","priceAmount":9.17,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"9","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"17","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"fgh2tOC8Vzy35nR4hbT52B%2FjwNypo9%2BFnCxF%2FhjKc%2BVPRKNuKE1tiNGVOL60o6rx3DToaIPzD2UNiP2SeLB8wy5n2Jz%2F%2F6ftK%2BywEsdn8nfCmc5nkZPJiDgLUBpgy37pHPs8YGFluGu94EW8beFdai5tKbr31VSn%2B%2Bsbr7kjamqTQ4AngLZK0ibpY9ro3TSc","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"USED","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":1}]}

Purchase options and add-ons

For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s latest New York Times bestseller is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology.

From Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of numerous New York Times bestselling books, Waking Up is for the twenty percent of Americans who follow no religion but who suspect that important truths can be found in the experiences of such figures as Jesus, the Buddha, Lao Tzu, Rumi, and the other saints and sages of history. Throughout this book, Harris argues that there is more to understanding reality than science and secular culture generally allow, and that how we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the quality of our lives.

Waking Up is part memoir and part exploration of the scientific underpinnings of spirituality. No other book marries contemplative wisdom and modern science in this way, and no author other than Sam Harris—a scientist, philosopher, and famous skeptic—could write it.
Read more Read less
Previous page
  1. Print length
    256 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    June 16, 2015
  4. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.7 x 8.38 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    1451636024
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1451636024
  7. See all details
Next page
Amazon First Reads | Editors' picks at exclusive prices

Frequently bought together

Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
$11.99
Get it as soon as Tuesday, May 14
In Stock
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
+
Free Will [Deckle Edge]
$9.19
Get it as soon as Monday, May 13
In Stock
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
Total price:
To see our price, add these items to your cart.
Details
Added to Cart
Choose items to buy together.
Popular Highlights in this book
What are popular highlights?
Previous page
  1. The way we think about experience can completely determine how we feel about it.
    Highlighted by 6,441 Kindle readers
  2. On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one’s own advice.
    Highlighted by 5,227 Kindle readers
  3. Our minds are all we have. They are all we have ever had. And they are all we can offer others.
    Highlighted by 4,532 Kindle readers
Next page

Editorial Reviews

Review

“Harris’s book . . . caught my eye because it’s so entirely of this moment, so keenly in touch with the growing number of Americans who are willing to say that they do not find the succor they crave, or a truth that makes sense to them, in organized religion.” (Frank Bruni, columnist, New York Times)

“The fact is that Waking Up lends a different picture of Harris (at least to me): an intelligent and sensitive person who is willing to undergo the discomfort involved in proposing alternatives to the religions he’s spent years degrading. His new book, whether discussing the poverty of spiritual language, the neurophysiology of consciousness, psychedelic experience, or the quandaries of the self, at the very least acknowledges the potency and importance of the religious impulse—though Harris might name it differently—that fundamental and common instinct to seek not just an answer to life, but a way to live that answer.” (Trevor Quirk, The New Republic)

"[A]n extraordinary and ambitious masterwork. . . . altogether spectacular." (Maria Popova, Brainpickings)

“Uber-atheist Sam Harris is getting all spiritual. In his new book, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion, the usually outspoken critic of religion describes how spirituality can and must be divorced from religion if the human mind is to reach its full potential. . . . But there is plenty in Waking Up that will delight Harris’ most militant atheist readers.” (Religion News Service)

“The great value and novelty of this book is that Harris, in a simple but rigorous style, takes the middle way between these pseudoscientific and pseudo-spiritual assertions . . . [leading] to a profoundly more salubrious life.” (Publishers Weekly)

"A demanding, illusion-shattering book.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“Don’t read Waking Up . . . if you want to be told that heaven is real. Do read it if you want to explore the nature of consciousness, to learn how just trying to be mindful can free you from anxiety and self-blame.” (MORE Magazine)

“Waking Up is an eye opening, mind expanding book.” (AA Agnostica)

“A seeker’s memoir, a scientific and philosophical exploration of the self, and a how-to guide for transcendence, Waking Up explores the nature of consciousness, explains how to meditate, tells you the best drugs to take, and warns you about lecherous gurus. It will shake up your most fundamental beliefs about everyday experience, and it just might change your life.” -- Paul Bloom, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Yale University and author of "Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil"

“Waking Up is a rigorous, kind, clear, and witty book that will point you toward the selflessness that is our original nature.” -- Stephen Mitchell

“Sam Harris points out the rational methodology for exploring the nature of consciousness and for experiencing a transformative understanding of possibilities. Waking Up really does help us wake up.” -- Joseph Goldstein, author of "Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening" and "One Dharma"

“As a neuroscientist, Sam Harris shows how our egos are illusions, diffuse products of brain activity, and as a long-term practitioner of meditation, he shows how abandoning this illusion can wake us up to a richer life, more connected to everything around us.” -- Jerry Coyne, Professor of Biology at the University of Chicago and author of "Why Evolution is True"

"Sam Harris ranks as my favorite skeptic, bar none. In Waking Up he gives us a clear-headed, no-holds-barred look at the spiritual supermarket, calling out what amounts to junk food and showing us where real nutrition can be found. Anyone who realizes the value of a spiritual life will find much to savor here – and those who see no value in it will find much to reflect on." -- Daniel Goleman, author Emotional Intelligence and Focus

"Sam Harris has written a beautifully rational book about spiritually, consciousness and transcendence. He is the high priest of spirituality without religion. I recommend this book regardless of your belief system. As befits a book called Waking Up, it’s an eye opener." -- A.J. Jacobs, bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically

Praise for Free Will:

Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Book of Spring 2012

“A nimble book, amiably and conversationally jumping from point to point. The book’s length is one of its charms: He never belabors any one topic or idea, sticking around exactly as long as he needs to in order to lay out his argument (and tackle the rebuttals that it will inevitably provoke) and not a page longer.” —Washington Post

“A brief and forceful broadside at the conundrum that has nagged at every major thinker from Plato to Slavoj Zizek. Self-avowedly secular, [Harris is] addressing the need for individual growth and social betterment, and [is] doing so with compelling argument and style.” —Los Angeles Times

“Harris skewers the concept of free will — that mainstay of law, policy and politics — in fewer than 100 pages.” —Nature

"Brilliant and witty—and never less than incisive—Free Will shows that Sam Harris can say more in 13,000 words than most people do in 100,000." —Oliver Sacks

Praise for The Moral Landscape:

“The most compelling strand in The Moral Landscape is its unspooling diatribe against relativism.” —New York Times

“This is an inspiring book, holding out as it does the possibility of a rational understanding of how to construct the good life with the aid of science, free from the accretions of religious superstition and cultural coercion.” —Financial Times

“Harris’s is a first-principle argument, backed by copious empirical evidence woven through a tightly reasoned narrative… Harris’s program of a science-based morality is a courageous one that I wholeheartedly endorse.” —Scientific American

“Sam Harris breathes intellectual fire into an ancient debate. Reading this thrilling, audacious book, you feel the ground shifting beneath your feet. Reason has never had a more passionate advocate.”—Ian McEwan

“I was one of those who had unthinkingly bought into the hectoring myth that science can say nothing about morals. To my surprise, The Moral Landscape has changed all that for me. It should change it for philosophers too. Philosophers of mind have already discovered that they can't duck the study of neuroscience, and the best of them have raised their game as a result. Sam Harris shows that the same should be true of moral philosophers, and it will turn their world exhilaratingly upside down. As for religion, and the preposterous idea that we need God to be good, nobody wields a sharper bayonet than Sam Harris.”—Richard Dawkins

“Reading Sam Harris is like drinking water from a cool stream on a hot day. He has the rare ability to frame arguments that are not only stimulating, they are downright nourishing… His discussions will provoke secular liberals and religious conservatives alike, who jointly argue from different perspectives that there always will be an unbridgeable chasm between merely knowing what is and discerning what should be. As was the case with Harris’ previous books, readers are bound to come away with previously firm convictions about the world challenged, and a vital new awareness about the nature and value of science and reason in our lives.” —Lawrence M. Krauss, Foundation Professor and Director of the ASU Origins Project at Arizona State University, author of The Physics of Star Trek, and, Quantum Man: Richard Feynman’s Life in Science

“A lively, provocative, and timely new look at one of the deepest problems in the world of ideas. Harris makes a powerful case for a morality that is based on human flourishing and thoroughly enmeshed with science and rationality. It is a tremendously appealing vision, and one that no thinking person can afford to ignore.” —Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of How the Mind Works and The Blank Slate

“Expanding upon concepts posited in the End of Faith and Free Will, neuroscientist Harris draws from personal contemplative practice and a growing body of scientific research to argue that the self, the feeling that there is an “I” residing in one’s head, is both an illusion and the primary cause of human suffering…. The great value and novelty of this book is that Harris, in a simple but rigorous style, takes the middle way between… pseudoscientific and pseudospiritual assertions, cogently maintaining that while such contemplative insights provide no evidence for metaphysical claims, they are available, and seeing them for ourselves leads to a profoundly more salubrious life.” ― Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Sam Harris is the author of the bestselling books The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, and Lying. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. His writing has been published in over fifteen languages. Dr. Harris is cofounder and CEO of Project Reason, a nonprofit foundation devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society. He received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a PhD in neuroscience from UCLA. Please visit his website at SamHarris.org.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (June 16, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1451636024
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1451636024
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.38 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 8,527 ratings

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.
Sam Harris

Sam Harris

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Sam Harris is the author of five New York Times best sellers. His books include The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, Waking Up, and Islam and the Future of Tolerance (with Maajid Nawaz), The Four Horseman (with Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens), and Making Sense. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. His writing and public lectures cover a wide range of topics—neuroscience, moral philosophy, religion, meditation practice, human violence, rationality—but generally focus on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live.

Sam’s work has been published in more than 20 languages and has been discussed in The New York Times, Time, Scientific American, Nature, Rolling Stone, and many other publications. He has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Economist, The Times (London), The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, and The Annals of Neurology, among others. He also hosts the Making Sense Podcast, which was selected by Apple as one of the “iTunes Best” and has won a Webby Award for best podcast in the Science & Education category.

Sam received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA. He has also practiced meditation for more than 30 years and has studied with many Tibetan, Indian, Burmese, and Western meditation teachers, both in the United States and abroad. Sam has created the Waking Up Course for anyone who wants to learn to meditate in a modern, scientific context.

Customer reviews

4.4 out of 5 stars
4.4 out of 5
8,527 global ratings
Interesting book
4 Stars
Interesting book
Nice book. It was a bit different from what I expected, bit I learned a lot.
Hide
Thank you for your feedback
Sorry, there was an error
Sorry we couldn't load the review

Top reviews from the United States

Tim Q.
5.0 out of 5 stars You can be rational, yet not unhappy
Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2014
Verified Purchase
Sam's blog post---a precursor of this book---had a life-changing effect for me. Before, I actually envied the religious people in a way, as they had solace in life---and the life is hard, no matter what you do. But, as a rational and scientifically-minded person, I could not possibly buy into all this Iron (or New) Age cult BS, and so oscillated between common unhappiness and mild depression for the most of my life. Not anymore. I heard about meditation, of course, but always dismissed as something that belongs with the said BS. Only Sam's authority as a truly rational thinker finally broke the ice and I gave it a try.

Well, folks---after a year of meditating several times a week and a 10-day retreat, I can say: IT DOES WORK. Life is still hard, but that fact doesn't bother me as much; I feel more connected to the people around me, and way more even-minded. In fact, I can't recall when it was last time me and my wife had an argument (we used to bicker all the time). Besides this anecdotical evidence, there are now thousands of scientific papers on the benefits of meditation, some of which are discussed in the book.

However, this is not just yet another book on meditation---it's not only on meditation, and it's not a self-help book---at least in any traditional sense. Unlike most of the former, it's strictly rational and does not give any concessions to any sort of religious accommodation, and unlike the latter it does not give a "30-Day Program to Become Happy" or anything of this sort---although it does discuss practical points. You can look at it as an invitation to look inside our minds, and to use this rational introspection cut through the illusions which are, at the end of the day, the source of our unhappiness.

Importantly, "Waking Up" presents a different take on the introspection/meditation techniques than the mainstream meditation literature. Besides introducing the bread-n'-butter mindfulness/vipassana techniques that every novice should start with (there is an extensive literature on that out there), Sam talks about the ways to directly cut through the illusion of the Self, instead of gradually getting to this insight through thousands of hours of vipassana meditation. That part is very interesting, and---depending on the person---it may work right away. However, if you find these instructions totally confusing, I'd suggest to stick to the traditional mindfulness practice, which seems to be a prerequisite for most of the people (for me, at least).

The first four chapters is the core of the book, that discusses the problem of consciousness, the Self--and the illusion of thereof, and meditation. The last chapter is somewhat of an appendix that covers various aspects related, one way or the other, to spiritually: the teachers/gurus, near-death experiences, and psychedelic drugs. However, the way it's written, this chapter comes out as an integral part of the book.

The prose is superb: elegant, lucid, and to the point. I can't recommend enough the audio version---Sam did an excellent job narrating it. If you are new to the whole meditation thing, I can recommend to first read "10% Happier" by Dan Harris (no relation to Sam). It's a very different, lighter/entertaining book (the audio version is fantastic), but it should serve as an excellent introduction to "Waking Up".

Finally, a piece of criticism: I was surprised that Sam didn't discuss the loving kindness (metta) meditation technique in sufficient detail (he does mention it, though). I expected it to be covered: in the very beginning, he talks about his early experience taking MDMA and the effect it had---and you can actually get the same effect through metta. In fact, that's one of the easier experiments to run in the "laboratory of your mind" (it's better to do it after a concentration/mindfulness session, so your mind is sufficiently concentrated). Moreover, this sounds exactly like the kind of experiences many Christians are talking about, but in an absolutely secular, rational context.
19 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Carlos R. Tirado Negron
4.0 out of 5 stars Good and entertaining, but with some dissapointing parts at the end.
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2015
Verified Purchase
The book is well written and in a simple style, which always helps in such endeavors. (for a better experience buy the audio with whispersync narrated by Sam Harris himself) I also liked the way in which the author portrays the notion of spirituality. Although I would not have used the term "spiritual" to describe this phenomenon, I do understand his reasons for doing that, and for lack of a better name, he uses it with the necessary caveats (it does not imply, for example, a believe in the afterlife or the supernatural). He always make clear that spirituality is practice completely separable from the religious domain. He also points to the fact that it has always existed in many forms and shapes, and that it is a very distinct phenomenon from superstitious beliefs. He disentangles it from any mythological obscurantism. Not only in New Era religiosity, but especially within the many Indian traditions that came to symbolize it in the West. He is also honest enough to recognize the ample variety of scams and barefaced gurus that swirl around many “spiritually minded people” and warns readers against it.

Lastly, he takes great pains in distinguishing meditative or mystical states from neurological diseases and conditions. Experiences of spirituality, understood as a practice of concentration and awareness, are backed by neuroscientific studies of neuroimaging and fMri that show a very distinct pattern from Schizophrenia, Temporal Lobe paralysis and other brain diseases. It is also distinct from self delusion. Here the evidence comes not from neuro imaging, but from the clinical picture that emanates from their own descriptions of their symptoms. These clearly differentiate “out-of-body experiences” and other clinical hallucinations from meditation practices and their first-person reports of it. (Although he doesn’t mention it, there is also fMRI evidence backing this assertion)

There are various chapters dedicated exclusively to understand consciousness according to the most recent studies of the brain’s inner workings, the neurons and known cases of people with exotic conditions. Those are probably the most interesting chapters for anyone not regularly accustomed to neuroscience. For example: How many selfs are there? or is there even something real in the belief of a self? This is, actually, a “delusion” that he devotes a great deal of the book to unravel. It is the so called “illusion of the self”. Buddhist teachings explain that the best way to attain the “Nirvana” or supreme state of well-being is to understand the illusion of the self. Although Harris explains in detail his own understanding of this concept and its consequences (all of them backed or reasonably informed by neuro-scientific studies), he considers that even more important than understanding or attaining this realization is to reap its benefits. In order to do that, he offers some basic exercises sprinkled with stories and anecdotes of his own experiences while learning and practicing them. All of it makes the book, not just an interesting reading, but also a learning experience, and a very entertaining one.

There are, however, some parts towards the end of the book, that I found rather disappointing. Specifically his relatively benign treatment of the topic of psychedelic drugs and “enlightenment”. He warns that he does not recommend their use to everyone, but considers that they may “open the doors” to it, as they did for him. Although he doesn’t use them anymore, he still considers them a “uniquely potent means of altering consciousness”. He is talking specifically of his experiences with Hallucinogens such as psilocybin and LSD. I find it disappointing for many reasons. Not the least, that one of those “experiences” could well have taken his life or deeply affected his mental health, as he himself recognizes, or that some of the worst uses of the term “spiritual” have been precisely related to nothing more than poor excuses to the use and abuse of controlled substances. The main reason why I find this disappointing is because his discussion on this topic demonstrates a very poor understanding of the nature of meditation and its relationship with the other so called altered mental states. It is as if Harris was saying that both, deep meditation practices and the use of hallucinogenic or psychedelic drugs, were simply two different, but equally valid and effective paths to self-transcendence. This is not just misleading, but quite untrue, as it contradicts well established scientific results on the topic as well as the intuitions of many dedicated practitioners of passive and active meditation.

For a better discussion of this topic I refer the reader to the book Why God Won’t Go Away. It presents an outstanding conceptual and scientific discussion offered by Andrew Newberg and other researchers where they discuss the first fMRIs study of meditative Buddhist monks and contemplative nuns. I recommend specifically the discussion about “mystical” and “cuasi-mystical” experiences and their corresponding differences in the search of what they called the Absolute Unitary State. It is a much richer and profound discussion both in neurological and philosophical terms.
6 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report

Top reviews from other countries

CarlaD
5.0 out of 5 stars When religion doesn’t work for you but you sense there is something else.
Reviewed in Canada on August 24, 2022
Verified Purchase
I feel that this book was written for me, in trying to navigate this life religion has never done it for me. I’m still a good person, with a moral compass that would surpass many of my religious peers. What did that mean? How did it happen? How can I practice something that removes the dogma? Thanks for answering. I honestly have never read a book like this and every point, every piece of evidence and every explanation answered before I could ask.
2 people found this helpful
 Report
Luis Felipe Garcia de Souza
5.0 out of 5 stars An invitation to the insight
Reviewed in Brazil on May 24, 2022
Verified Purchase
The author invites us to dive deeper in a field most commonly inhabited by superstition and draws interesting credible conclusions. As an atheist, I’d say I’m pretty convinced that it is possible to discuss spirituality without religion after having read this book. It has fully changed my views on meditation and its purposes. I cannot thank the author enough for sharing a vast set of spiritual experiences, but from a secular standpoint.
Report
Julio Andres Arriaga Rangel
5.0 out of 5 stars Grateful for this spiritual guide
Reviewed in Mexico on January 5, 2022
Verified Purchase
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is a starting guide to know our spiritual consciousness without religious dogma.

The author is very harsh against religious thought (and many people may not like that), but he is compassionate towards the vulnerable people, where it counts.
Report
Josti
1.0 out of 5 stars Just a boring book
Reviewed in the Netherlands on August 7, 2023
Verified Purchase
Better just wake up in the morning..you don't need all this extra paperwork
Report
Robert P.
5.0 out of 5 stars Seeing spirituality as rational enquiry
Reviewed in France on June 20, 2023
Verified Purchase
Great book summarising eastern spirituality through rationalist lens
Report