Book Club recordings for Waking Up by Sam Harris

This is our current on going book. I will post new recordings here every Saturday

8-22-20 in this session we finished the book and is the last in the series
8-15-20 in this session we stopped in chapter 5 at the paragraph that starts with “we have reason to be skeptical of the brain-as-barrier thesis.”
8-8-20 in this session we stopped in chapter 5 at the paragraph that starts with “”not even in the right ballpark”?”
8-1-20 in this session we stopped in chapter 5 at the paragraph that starts with “of course, there can be clear indications that a teacher is not worth paying attention to…”
7-25-20 in this session we stopped near the beginning of chapter 5 at a section break. next section starts with “it is usually easy…”
7-18-20 in this session we stopped at an illustration box in Chapter 4 titled “look for your head”
7-11-20 In this session we stopped in chapter 4 at the paragraph that starts with “Any attempt to make sense of such teachings in third-person” we will pick up there next week
7-4-20 In this weeks book club we stopped at the paragraph “Ramachandran and the others have noted that the discovery…” in chapter 3 and that’s where we will pick up next week.
6-27-20 in this session we stopped in chapter 3 at the sub-chapter paragraph break “lost in thought”
6-20-20 In this session we stopped in chapter 2 at the paragraph break that reads “Consciousness is what matters”
6-13-20 in this session we stopped in chapter 2 at a break that reads “the mind divided”. I apologize for the gap in time between sessions the meeting was canceled for a few weeks
5-23-20 in this session we stopped in chapter 1 at “a final word of caution: Nothing I say here…”
5-16-20 here is the first recording for Waking Up where we began reading the first Chapter. we stopped in chapter one at “most of us are far wiser than we may appear to be”

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