“You don’t get anything worth getting by pretending to know things you don’t know.”
Sam Harris is a famed American atheist, philosopher, neuroscientist, and author of five New York Times bestsellers which has been published in more than 20 languages.
Sam Harris has been identified as one of the “Four Horsemen of Atheism” – company he shares with Richard Dawkins, Dan Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens.
His books include: The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, Waking Up, Islam and the Future of Tolerance (with Maajid Nawaz).
“Read Sam Harris and wake up.”
Said English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and writer Ricard Dawkings about Sam Harris. Harris generally focuses on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live. For example have a look at this 2010 TED Talk.
Join Sam Harris Soundcloud (selected by Apple as one of iTunes Best of 2015) as he explores important and controversial questions about the human mind, society, and current events.
In the fall of 2014, Sam Harris staged a series of live events — in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco—to coincide with the publication of his book, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion.
In this important and wide-ranging book, Sam Harris demonstrates that the practice of “rational spirituality” is not an oxymoron. As a neuroscientist, Harris shows how our egos are illusions, diffuse products of brain activity, and as a long-term practitioner of meditation, he shows how abandoning this illusion can wake us up to a richer life, more connected to everything around us.
— Jerry Coyne, Professor of Biology at the University of Chicago and author of Why Evolution is True
Buy the full video of Sam Harris’ Waking Up talk $4.99 stream + download anytime.
Also have a look at brilliant Tony Jones interview from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) (Broadcast: 28/10/2015) who speaks with the co-authors of ‘Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue’, Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz, about the future of Islam and how to combat the rise of extremism here:
Sam Harris’ detestable crusade: How his latest anti-Islam tract reveals the bankruptcy of his ideas. By Salon’s Omer Aziz. Read here.
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