By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World Imagine you realize that you’re not as happy as you should be in your life, and decide you need to take some steps to...
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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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Extreme Altruism – Would You Donate Your Kidney to a Stranger?
October 11th, 2018 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World Do you see yourself as an altruistic person? Here’s a test to find out. Assuming you’re...
Kindness and Cooperation are More Natural to Human Beings Than Selfishness
By Steve Taylor, Ph.D Guest writer for Wake Up World An Alternative View of Human Nature For a long time, there has been a general assumption in our culture that “human nature” is...
Why Do Human Beings Do Good Things? The Puzzle of Altruism
By Steve Taylor, Ph.D Guest writer for Wake Up World In 2007, a construction worker named Wesley Autrey was standing on a subway platform in New York, when a young man nearby had an epileptic...
Closing the Gender Gap: The Merging of Masculine and Feminine
November 29th, 2016 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D Guest writer for Wake Up World Throughout almost all recorded history, and in most cultures throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia, there has been...
The Secret of Success: Relax, Do Nothing… and Just BE
By Steve Taylor, Ph.D Guest writer for Wake Up World Great ideas and discoveries don’t come from thinking or doing, but from being. In general, there are three different modes in...
Chemical Lobotomy: The Mad Mass Prescription of Psychotropic Drugs
4th August 2016 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D Guest writer for Wake Up World One of the most shameful episodes in the history of psychology is the use of frontal lobotomies. Despite very scant evidence of...
The Power of Forgiveness: The Transformational Effect of Letting Go of Resentment
By Steve Taylor, PhD Guest Writer for Wake Up World Recently I met a woman called Sena, whose brother was killed 13 years ago. Tony, her brother, was working as a chef in the British army, when he...
How to Suffer Successfully: Post-Traumatic Growth and Nietzschean Resilience
7th December 2015 By Steve Taylor, PhD Guest Writer for Wake Up World Turmoil and trauma only seem to be seen as destructive and negative. But in the long term, these negative emotions may be...
More Than A Chemical Imbalance – Why Depression Cannot Be Cured By Medication Alone
By Steve Taylor Ph.D Guest Writer for Wake Up World A few months ago a friend asked me for some advice about his father, who was suffering from depression. After finding out that his father spent...
Reclaiming Human Freedom – You’re Not an Automaton After All!
27th October 2015 By Steve Taylor Ph.D Guest Writer for Wake Up World One of the main themes of modern intellectual approaches has been to take away autonomy and freedom from human beings. From...
Harmony of Being: Returning to Our True Nature
By Steve Taylor Ph.D Guest Writer for Wake Up World From time to time, we all have experiences when restlessness and discontent fade away, and we’re filled with a sense of ease, well-being and...