Waking Up

Sam Harris's account of meditation and spirituality from a secular, neuroscientific perspective — arguing that the transformative potential of meditation is real and available without religious commitment.

Secular spirituality: the insights of contemplative practice — selflessness, the constructed nature of the self, non-dual awareness — are genuine and practically important, but don't require belief in anything supernatural. The neuroscience of meditation: what happens in the brain during contemplative practice. Harris's personal account: years of practice with Tibetan and Advaita teachers, an experience of genuine selflessness as the foundation of secular mindfulness.