Waking Up

In this collection, Waking Up references 1 other book and is cited by 5 other books.

It draws on The Power of Now.

It’s picked up by How to Change Your Mind, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art and The Creative Act: A Way of Being and 2 others.

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Waking Up is widely respected for carving out a credible space for secular spirituality grounded in neuroscience and direct meditative experience. Michael Pollan engages with Harris's framework on non-dual consciousness to describe ego-dissolution in psilocybin sessions, while Robert Wright shares Harris's secular approach to meditation but pushes further into evolutionary explanations for why mindfulness dissolves the illusion of a unified self.

Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson subject Harris's phenomenological claims to empirical scrutiny in Altered Traits, and Rick Rubin's instructions on quieting the mind to receive creative ideas echo Harris's awareness training. Readers praise the book for making meditation intellectually respectable without stripping it of depth, though some find Harris's dismissal of religious traditions too sweeping.