Waking Up
A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
Sam Harris, Hillsdale 204 H3161w 2014 , Simon and Schuster
- meditators should have a "healthy sense of self", no schitzophrenia
Advaita Vedanta non-dualist, no "higher" external being
Harris: Stanford BA philosopy 2000, UCLA PhD Neuroscience 2009, April 1967
mother LA writer/producer Susan Harris
vipassana Mindfulness (sati), clear awareness, "free mind from suffering"
- Mindfulness and loving-kindness meditation (metta)
- consciousness without the self, avoiding suffering
- visual "blind spot"
- decreases representation in the DMN Default Mode Network, self representation
- LSD alters consciousness, but uncontrollable extremes
Harris's approximate classifications (not necessarily mine!)
"good"
- Swami Vivekananda 1893 Vedanta
- Theravada Buhddism
- Dzogchen: Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
- H.W.L. Poonja
- Sayadaw U Pandita
- Douglas Harding
"bad"
- Helena Blavatsky
- Joseph Smith
- Sri Aurobindo
- J.Z. Knight / Ramtha
- Rashneesh / OSHO
- Gurdjieff, Ouspensky
- Chopyam Trungpa Rinpoche / Osel Tendzin
Local meditation, not Harris
Vipassana Meditation
Northwest Vipassana Center - Dhamma Kunja near the town of Onalaska, Washington
- Carolyn from transhumanists?