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Can Meditation Help Enable Human Flourishing?
In my first piece for The Partially Examined Life, I consider what the latest scientific research on mindfulness and meditation means for project of human flourishing.
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Robert Wright’s Why Buddhism Is True
An invaluable introduction to the riches of secular, naturalistic Buddhism.
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Sam Harris’ Waking Up
Sam Harris, the author of Waking Up, is best known as one of the “Four Horsemen” of the “New Atheist” movement. I first heard him speak on atheism in the summer of 2007 and was struck not so much by his disdain for the destructive potential of Biblical prophecy, but rather his interest in mysticism…