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Waking Up
A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
Sam Harris, Hillsdale 204 H3161w 2014 , Simon and Schuster
April 1967, mother LA producer Susan Harris
Advaita Vedanta non-dualist, no "higher" external being
- Harris: Stanford philosopy, UCLA PhD Neuroscience
- Mindfulness and loving-kindness meditation (metta)
- consciousness without the self, avoiding suffering
- "blind spot"
- decreases representation in the DMN Default Mode Network, self representation
- LSD alters consciousness, but uncontrollable extremes
Harris's approximate classifications
"good"
- Theravada Buhddism
- Dzogchen: Tukku Urgyen Rinpoche
- HWL Poonja
- U Pandita
- Douglas Harding
"bad"
- Sri Aurobindo
- J.Z. Knight / Ramtha
- Rashneesh / OSHO
- Gurdjieff, Ouspensky
- Chopyam Trungpa Rinpoche / Osel Tendzin