Sam Harris’ Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion has brought the subject of skeptical spirituality to wide attention. It’s a thought-provoking book — or, if you’re a spirituality-hating atheist or an atheism-hating spiritualist, maybe just a provoking book. My own objection is that the book is too timid in its aim of bringing skepticism and spirituality into meaningful dialogue.
I’ve written a critique of Harris’s arguments and a description of what I think a real guide to spirituality without religion should include. Here I want to give a concrete and rather extreme example of how the antipodes of skepticism and spirituality can be brought together in creative interaction.
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