Waking Up: A Guide To Spirituality Without Religion, by Sam Harris

Sam Harris's audiobook on "secular spirituality" - mindful meditation in the approximate tradition of Buddhism but without the faith-based baggage.

Chapter 1

00:00:00 - Spirituality
00:16:55 - The search for happiness
00:30:35 - Religion, east and west
00:57:08 - Mindfulness
01:07:26 - How to meditate
01:10:40 - The truth of suffering
01:14:08 - Enlightenment

Chapter 2

01:26:55 - The mystery of consciousness
01:47:01 - The mind divided
01:56:42 - Structure and function
02:08:03 - Conscious and unconscious processing in the brain
02:12:44 - Consciousness is what matters

Chapter 3

02:16:28 - The riddle of the self
02:30:53 - What are we calling "I"?
02:37:18 - Consciousness without self
02:39:10 - Lost in thought
02:40:44 - Breaking the spell of negative emotions
02:57:31 - The challenge of studying the self
03:06:00 - Self recognition
03:08:24 - Theory of mind
03:18:10 - Penetrating the illusion

Chapter 4

03:22:10 - Meditation
03:28:43 - Gradual versus sudden realisation
03:46:56 - Dzogchen: taking the goal as the path
03:54:59 - Beyond duality
03:59:16 - Having no head
04:06:02 - Look for your head
04:11:35 - The paradox of acceptance

Chapter 5

04:13:23 - Gurus, death and other puzzles
04:49:55 - Mind on the brink of death
05:16:08 - The spiritual uses of pharmacology
05:41:02 - Conclusion