[FairfieldLife] Sam Harris on athiesm and mysticism

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http://www.tinyurl.com/2q9oem

But certain people, for whatever reason, are led to suspect that there 
is more to human experience than this. In fact, many of them are led 
to suspect this by religion—by the claims of people like the Buddha or 
Jesus or some other celebrated religious figures. And such a person 
may begin to practice various disciplines of attention—often 
called "meditation" or "contemplation"—as a means of examining his 
moment to moment experience closely enough to see if a deeper basis of 
well-being is there to be found.