Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
AuthorSam Harris
LanguageEnglish
SubjectSpirituality
PublisherSimon & Schuster
Publication date
September 9, 2014
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover and paperback)
Pages256 (hardcover)
ISBN978-1451636017
Preceded byFree Will 
Followed byIslam and the Future of Tolerance 
Excerpt from Waking Up read by Sam Harris on his podcast.

Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion is a 2014 book by Sam Harris that discusses a wide range of topics including secular spirituality (essentially within the context of spiritual naturalism), the illusion of the self, psychedelics, and meditation. He attempts to show that a certain form of spirituality is integral to understanding the nature of the mind. In late September 2014, the book reached #5 on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers list.[1]

In September 2018 Harris released a meditation app entitled "Waking Up with Sam Harris."[2] Harris' podcast had previously been titled Waking Up, but he retitled it Making Sense to differentiate it from his meditation app.[2]

  1. ^ "Sam Harris' Waking Up a Top 5 New York Times Best Seller". BrightSight Group. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  2. ^ a b Freeland, Ben (29 March 2019). "Sam Harris' Waking Up App, Reviewed". Medium. Retrieved 30 May 2019.