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Special Episode: Sam Harris & Meditation is all you need

Decoding the Gurus

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I Think It's a Good Thing That He's Not a Right Winger.

i don't know sam harris anywhere near as well as you do, but i get the sense that politically speaking, he is not terribly far away from where i happen to be. Like you and i are people who take themselves extraordinarily seriously and who appropriate this huge amount of gravitas and authority. And in fact, we like people who don't take themselves so seriously and undercut themselves and have a laugh. Ine nt shell, it's interesting, isn't it? How sam, whos books were all about being anti religious,. Has just been increasingly interested in this thing, which is not religiou not religion, chris. It's just purely material, scientific, secular

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