#14: Sam Harris, PhD - Spirituality, Neuroscience, Meditation, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Is There Anything I Can Do About It?
There's nothing irrational about seeking the states of mind that lie at the core of many religions. Compassion, awe, devotion and feelings of oneness are surely among the most valuable experiences a person can have. Science hasn't given us the tools to talk about it. Secular culture doesn't give us the tools for talking about it. And so there's this phenomenon that's clearly deeper than any of our provincial ways of talking about it in the context of religion. Is the deeper truth of human psychology and the nature of consciousness. i think we need to explore it in terms that don't require that we lie to ourselves or to our children about the nature of reality.
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