E80. Sam Harris Says You Can’t Become Happy, You Can Only BE Happy

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

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🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Sam Harris (author, philosopher, neuroscientist) has a fascinating conversation with Bridget about meditation, consciousness, mindfulness, and awareness. They discuss what brought Sam to meditation (drugs, initially), and the decade he spent traveling and diving into Eastern philosophy, mindfulness practices, and silent retreats, until ultimately he went back to college and eventually got a PhD in cognitive neuroscience. He and Bridget cover mediation and psychological resilience, being a hostage to your own thoughts, the search for a durable state of well being, the casualties of the spiritual path and the people who follow it, the illusion of self, and how close we are to being psychotic so much of the time. Full transcript available here: WiW80-SamHarris-Transcript

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production.
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0:08.0	This is Walk-In's Welcome with Bridget Petacy.
0:10.9	I'm Bridget Petacy, I'm Bridget Petacy and you are welcome. You know the drill.
0:25.0	the drill.
0:27.0	Please subscribe, rate, comment, share, reach out, tell your friends, send smoke signals, whatever.
0:32.0	We love your feedback and we want to hear from you. your
0:33.0	feedback and we want to hear from you.
0:35.0	This week on Walkins Welcome, I'm very excited to have Sam Harris.
0:40.0	Sam Harris is a neuroscientist, philosopher,
0:42.7	and author of five New York Times bestsellers.
0:45.7	His work covers a wide range of topics,
0:47.9	neuroscience, moral philosophy, religion,
0:50.8	meditation practice, human violence, rationality, but generally focuses on how a growing
0:56.0	understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live.
1:01.0	I'm with Sam Harris everybody welcome to Watkins welcome.
1:05.0	Happy to be here, Bridget. It took a while.
1:08.0	I know I'm so I'm so excited. I'm a little bit nervous to be totally honest because you are just somebody that I
1:16.4	have looked up to for so long.
1:18.8	It's just a strange phenomenon to be able to actually talk to you.
1:23.0	All right, well let me show you my feet of clay.
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