Name: Joe Rogan Experience #543 - Sam Harris
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #543 - Sam Harris' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-09-03. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #543 - Sam Harris

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My friend, Sam Harris, author, awesome dude, martial artist, and author of Waking
Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion.
I told you I first found out about you from my friend Joe Silva, who's the
matchmaker for the UFC, who gave me your book.
He gave me Letters to a Christian Nation many, many years ago. Like, when did
you post that? Published that? 2008?
2006.
2006? Yeah.
Yeah, he gave it to me like around then. He's like, "You gotta read this. It's
awesome." And I did. And look, we're pals.
Cool. Here we go.
Yeah, that's great.
And your new book, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion. Well,
that's impossible. So your book is nonsense.
Right, right.
Because you need God in your life.
I'm running into that. Well, no, actually I'm running to the other side of that,
where spirituality makes no sense unless you believe in religion.
But there's no such thing as a spirit. So, you know, why would you want to
endorse something called spirituality?
That's a kind of a, that's fair, isn't it? Like, what is a spirit? I mean, don't
you have to have faith in something to sort of, just the idea of a spirit?
If you're gonna, if you're gonna talk about spirituality or a spirit, like,
what are you really talking about?
Yeah, well, I'm definitely not talking about a spirit or a soul or anything
that can float off the brain at death. And I think spirituality is one of these
words that we just have to reclaim because there's really not an English
equivalent for this area of inquiry.
If you want to take seriously the, um, one question, can I pull these off?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm gonna check.
Cool.
You have what?
I'm just getting like, it's kind of distorted sound.
Oh, really?
Yeah, could be my brain, could be the, but it's a lot better with these off, so.
Maybe God talking in your ear.
You're blocking them out.
Yeah, it's faucet and lasers.
If God needs, if God needs these, we know his powers are limited.
I'll take these off too.
Yeah.
We'll leave it up to Jamie to find out whether or not.
There we go.
Cool.
Um.
It's not nearly as loud.
So, um, yeah, so, so this is a big hang up for atheists and secularists and
skeptics that this, this idea that spirituality is a word that means magic and
superstition by, by definition and by its etymology.
Because it's, it goes back to the, the, uh, the Latin spiritus, which comes
from the Greek pneuma, meaning breath.
And it's this idea that the spirit is, is, you're asserting some kind of dualism.
This is a spirit that's internal to the body that is not produced by the body
that can leave the body at death.
And it's true that most people, most of the time, have some quasi-mystical,
spooky association with, with the concept of spirituality.
It's obviously linked up with all the stuff that people believe about crystals
and angels and all the other stuff that I don't want to be entangled with.
But, uh, I just think there, there, there's no word for, if you're going to
take seriously the, the, the project of, of becoming like Jesus, whoever he was.
Becoming someone who could actually love his neighbor as himself or, um, uh,
becoming like the Buddha or, or, or, or just exploring the, the, the furthest
reaches of positive human experience through meditation or psychedelics or some
other methodology that, that, that really perturbs consciousness.
Um, there's no word for that endeavor and to, and to call it positive
psychology or happiness or wellbeing.
Most people think they know what you mean when you use words like happiness and
wellbeing and love.
And, and, and yet they have no idea how rarefied things can get if you, if you
take the right drug, if you spend three months in silence doing nothing but
meditate.
Um, it's just, there, there, it's a, uh, there are many layers to this thing.
And so I've, I've tried to reclaim the term spirituality and, um, some guy,
some guy I was talking to recently on a podcast, uh, drew an analogy to the
word evil, which is another word that people are uncomfortable with.
Because once we, once we understand things like psychopathy and, and, and other
ways in which the, the human mind can malfunction, it seems that there's no
rational basis to be talking about evil.
But I think we need the word evil.
I think we need to, I think we need to reclaim the word evil for a secular
rational conversation because we need a big word for, for the, the, really the
worst of human impulses.
Well, well, evil and good, they don't seem to be dependent upon a religious
belief.
I think evil is just what, what affects a gang of people in a negative way or
even one individual, you know, poison and water supply.
Obviously that's an evil deed.
You're going to kill a bunch of people.
You're going to cause a bunch of pain.
That seems to make at least some sense without religion and as does good, like
good and evil.
But actually not for evil, the, the, the confidence in the use of the term evil
has definitely eroded among secular scientist types.
Because just, just, just picture it.
Once you understand what we're calling evil at the level of the brain, once you,
once you 