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Annaka Harris
Annaka Harris is the New York Times bestselling author of CONSCIOUS: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind and writer and producer of the forthcoming audio documentary series, LIGHTS ON. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Nautilus Magazine, the Journal of Consciousness Studies, and IAI Magazine. She is also an editor and consultant for science writers, specializing in neuroscience and physics. Annaka is the author of the children’s book I Wonder, coauthor of the Mindful Games Activity Cards, and a volunteer mindfulness teacher for the organization Inner Kids.
17 min
How the illusion of self shapes your reality
"The sense that we are a solid entity, an unchanging entity that exists someplace in our body and takes ownership of our body, and even ownership of our brain rather than being identical to our brain, that is where the illusion lies."
11 min
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Annaka Harris
"Everything that we care about, everything we experience, everything we know, we know it through our conscious awareness of it."
10 min
The illusion of self and the illusion of free will, explained
“Many people get stuck in feeling responsible for their psychological state, and there's a way in which simply being with whatever uncomfortable emotions rather than believing that you are controlling them can be extremely beneficial for psychological wellbeing.”
10 min
The mystery at the heart of consciousness
"Is it possible that consciousness is a much more basic phenomenon in nature and is essentially pervading everything?"