The Five Biggest Myths About Spiritual Awakening
Steve Taylor on what awakening is commonly mistaken for.
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British psychologist and senior lecturer at Leeds Beckett University, known for his academic research and writing on spontaneous spiritual awakening experiences.
Steve Taylor is a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University and a former chair of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society. He has written sixteen books exploring consciousness, psychology and spiritual experience from an academic, secular perspective, including The Leap: The Psychology of Spiritual Awakening and Spiritual Science, translated into more than twenty languages.
He continues to write regularly for Psychology Today and Scientific American, teaches on Leeds Beckett's MA in Interdisciplinary Psychology, and offers a self-paced online course called The Adventure. His few confirmed near-term public talks are on a different topic (the Beatles), not his core awakening teaching.
“Consciousness doesn't emerge from matter because it has always been in matter. (from Spiritual Science: Why Science Needs Spirituality to Make Sense of the World)”Steve Taylor
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Steve Taylor on what awakening is commonly mistaken for.
A talk at Watkins Books on the psychology of awakening.
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