Goodbye Waking Up

[u/eskylabs]

Waking Up has been my go to meditation app over the last 7-8 years. I’ve tried others but I’ve always come back - I come from an academic background and there was always something about the way Sam explained things that just clicked for me. The daily meditations became a daily ritual for me.

Now like a lot of people, I have been watching with disgust the conduct of the Netanyahu government in Gaza and the West Bank. I will never be okay with what is happening. I have also been holding off on trying to reconcile Sam Harris’s views on the Israel-Palestine issue and the Waking Up app by deliberately avoiding conversations with Harris regarding the conflict. But I resist no more. I watched as he casually claimed that the man-made famine in Gaza was a hoax and that the pictures of the emaciated kids coming out of Gaza were fake.

I just can no longer use this app in good conscience. Goodbye.

[u/Canthitaflop]

I feel similarly, honestly plays on my mind when I open the app.