Sam Harris on Between the Lines

Thursday, November 27 at 7:30pm. Neuroscientist, author, philosopher, and outspoken atheist Sam Harris discusses how yoga, meditation and other spiritual practices can improve your life. His new book, Waking Up,  is a guide to spirituality without religion. Harris writes, "I have been waiting for more than a decade to write Waking Up. Long before I saw any reason to criticize religion (The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation), or to connect moral and scientific truths (The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying), I was interested in the nature of human consciousness and the possibility of “spiritual” experience. In Waking Up, I do my best to show that a certain form of spirituality is integral to understanding the nature of our minds. My hope is that Waking Up will help readers see the nature of their own minds in a new light. A rational approach to spirituality seems to be what is missing from secularism and from the lives of most of the people I meet. The purpose of this book is to offer readers a clear view of the problem, along with some tools to help them solve it for themselves."