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Sam Harris was created Samuel Benjamin Harris on Apr 9, 1967, in Los Angeles, California. He was created to parents Susan Spivak and Berkeley Harris. His daddy, Berkeley, was an professional. He appeared in a number of tv set and film genres but mostly customized in Westerns. His most notable film was the 1965 Civil Warfare episode, Shenandoah, which starred Jimmy Stewart. Harris' mother, Susan, worked behind the displays in tv set and created a number of shows, including some that became iconic, like The Golden Females. The Harris' divorced after four many years of matrimony, when Sam Harris was 2 yrs old, and after that, he lived with his mother. As for his early religious education, he had none. His daddy had a Quaker backdrop, and his mother was Jewish but apparently never employed. He has explained his upbringing as secular. It is unidentified where exactly he went to senior high school, although he has brought up multiple times that he was the valedictorian. However, because he was afraid of presenting and public speaking, he declined to give the traditional valedictory at graduation. Instead, he lied to the principal, expressing that he thought that someone who had been at the school longer should give the speech. After senior high school, he went on to Stanford University or college, where he at first majored in English. However, while at Stanford, he experimented with MDMA, the psychedelic medicine additionally known as ecstasy. His encounters with the medicine led him to question encounters and beliefs in his life, specifically the ones that involved philosophy and religious beliefs. He believed that he was having religious encounters while on ecstasy and other psychedelics, which led him to ask yourself if he might well have the same kind of encounters while sober. To find out, he kept Stanford.
