Sam Harris has a new book out and I’m definitely going to read it. Anyone want to join me?
You can read Chapter One here:
I’d love if some of you wanted to join me in reading this and we could discuss it.
[Edit: Looks like it’s being released on Sept. 9th so we’ll have to wait until then to get it.]
Happy reading!
Left Christianity 
Sounds good. I’m on Who Wrote the New Testament right now and my husband reads A History of God chapter aloud each night which we then discuss. I’ve listened to Sam Harris videos and like him. Gotta finish Who Wrote first….best regards. M Mc
In “Waking up” Sam Harris uses the terms ‘spiritual’ and ‘mystical’ interchangeably. Just as he says that you do not have to be religious to be spiritual, so too you do not have to believe in God or be religious to be a mystic.
In my free ebook on comparative mysticism, “The Greatest Achievement in Life,” I summarized many similarities, and some differences, among the mystics of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism.
Ironically, the man who personally introduced me to mysticism was an atheist who once wrote “God is man’s greatest invention.” Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was also a Nobel astrophysicist at the University of Chicago.