# Waking Up --- [[On Tools, Skills, and Practices...]] Type: [[🕯️ Meditation 🧘]] Use: A secular [[🕯️ Meditation 🧘]] app created by [[Sam Harris]]. There are daily meditations, many hours of lectures and conversations featuring Sam and/or other meditation teachers, a section dedicated to learning different meditation practices from various teachers, and a timer for when we would rather meditate unguided. It also contains the largest curated collection of [[👤 Alan Watts]] lectures at over 140 hours. Sam is more cerebral and academic than other teachers, which may be more or less preferable to some of us. There is a beginner's course, some of which is free. If we can't afford a yearly subscription there is a form to [request a free year](https://app.wakingup.com/request-free-account) -- all requests are granted, no questions asked. > [!Warning] > Sam is a materialist scientific reductionist thinker who is influenced by the Eastern Theory of Mind, and has certain beliefs about identity and how our minds work which some people might find disturbing or even triggering and which I believe are incorrect. He also gives the impression that he’s enlightened — to my mind, he is not. There are some really valuable resources and insights in the app, but it’s also rife with radical non-dualist ideas that more or less dismiss our [[💡 Parts|parts]] and our uniqueness as illusory and unimportant, and argues that all suffering comes from the illusion of being a separate self and being lost in thought, which I believe is wrong. [Link](https://wakingup.com/) ## Related - [[⭐️ Safety Tools and Resources]]