The Casualties of the Dharma

Samharris: I've seen people who have spent crucial years of their lives engaged in these esoteric pursuits, they actually didn't become self-actualized. He says it's hard to meditate so effectively that your feeling of well-being becomes impregnable and is no longer dependent on anything substantive happening in your life. "I think the 60s are fast fading into the the miss of history," he says.