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Special Episode: Sam Harris & Meditation is all you need

Decoding the Gurus

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Meditation Is the Key to Understanding My Critique of Specific Religious Doctrine

meditation is also the key to understanding my criticism of specific religious ideas. Most religious doctrines are not merely scientifically and plausible, but that they are also a perversion of a very real opportunity to experience self transcendence. I have some weird sympathy for sam because i exercise it looking at it from his point of viewy exercise looking it from his points of view. He clearly does meditate a lot. I don't find that hard to believe. He says he's had these deep, transcendent experiences while doing so. And yet he' very frank in telling everybody that that's what he's accomplished. It'm his lived experience. So you can imagine being in his situation, being convinced of

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