By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World As you are no doubt aware, presently the United States is experiencing an opioid epidemic. There are many reasons for...
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Steve Taylor holds a Ph.D in Transpersonal Psychology and is a senior lecturer in Psychology at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. Steve’s books have been published in 19 languages and his research has appeared in numerous scientific journals, as well as the popular media in the UK.
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The Guru Syndrome: When Spirituality Turns Sour
By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World Many years ago, I attended some meetings of a spiritual group whose ideas interested me. I liked the teacher and author who had...
Are Children Saner Than Adults?
By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World In recent posts, and in my new book Back to Sanity, I have suggested that the normal human state is to suffer from a...
Can Suffering Make Us Stronger?
By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World Often turmoil and trauma just seem to be destructive and negative. But in the long term, these may be balanced—or even...
The After-Effects of Awakening
By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World As a psychologist, I have been studying what I call “awakening experiences” for a decade, and have recently published...
Transformation Through Dying: The Aftermath of Near-Death Experiences
By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World A near-death experience is when a person appears to be clinically “dead” for a short period — when the heart...
Elation: The Amazing Effect of Witnessing Acts of Kindness
By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World I have a friend who used to live in Pakistan, where he was an animal rights activist. One day, he was walking through his home...
The Voice Inside Your Head
By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World When did the voice inside your head start talking? I became aware of mine at about the age of 15. Up till that point, I had been a...
Beyond Anxiety: The Roots of Anxiety and How to Transcend It
By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World There are many different forms of anxiety, but it may be helpful to think in terms of three fundamental kinds: instinctive...
The Puzzle of Near-Death Experiences
By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World Near-death experiences: Just the hallucinations of a dying brain or something more mysterious? Several years ago, I worked with a...
Addiction and a Lack of Purpose
By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World How the opioid epidemic is related to a “purpose deficient” culture. As you are no doubt aware, presently the United...
Ecocide: When a Psychological Disorder Becomes Normal
By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World Eco-psychopathy: Our culture’s psychopathic attitude to nature. For me, the most symbolic and significant political...