By Steve Taylor Ph.D Guest writer for Wake Up World Many people believe that the powers of science are unlimited. Science is a process of uncovering the mechanisms by which nature works, and...
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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 Launderette Guru
11th June 2015 By Steve Taylor Ph.D Guest writer for Wake Up World One day over 20 years ago now, I was living in a shared flat in Manchester, UK, and my flatmate came home in a state of...
Touching The Earth Again
3rd June 2015 By Steve Taylor Ph.D Guest writer for Wake Up World What can we learn from American Indians’ attitude to nature? I’ve just been reading a fantastic book called Touch...
The Puzzle of Consciousness
By Steve Taylor Ph.D Guest writer for Wake Up World Over the past 20 years, the field of consciousness studies has become increasingly popular, partly because some scientists believe that...
Transcendent Sexuality — How Sex Can Generate Higher States of Consciousness
By Steve Taylor Ph.D Guest writer for Wake Up World Because of its allegedly pornographic content, D.H. Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover wasn’t published until 33 years...
Transcending Time in Egoless States of Consciousness
By Steve Taylor Ph.D Guest Writer for Wake Up World A few years ago a friend of mine was knocked off his motorbike at a high speed. The impact catapulted him through the air, and when he hit the...
Transpersonal Purpose and the Impulse for Spiritual Development
By Steve Taylor Ph.D Guest Writer for Wake Up World Transpersonal Purpose: When we no longer have a purpose but become a purpose. To have a strong sense of purpose is always beneficial, but...
Does Happiness Lie Within?
By Steve Taylor Ph.D Guest Writer for Wake Up World I’m a great admirer of positive psychology, which has been a fantastic corrective to the traditional ‘disease model’ of...
Reclaiming The Self – Is Your Sense Of Self An Illusion?
By Steve Taylor Ph.D Guest Writer for Wake Up World If there is one concept which has been under constant attack by psychologists and philosophers over the last few decades, it is the idea of...
The Power Of Silence
By Steve Taylor Ph.D Guest Writer for Wake Up World Modern humans have lost touch with their inner ‘true self’. Silence and stillness are a means to recovering happiness and contentment...
Transcending Human Madness
By Steve Taylor Ph.D Guest Writer for Wake Up World To an impartial observer – say, an alien zoologist from another planet – there must be very compelling evidence that human beings...
Empathy – The Power of Connection
By Steven M. Taylor, Ph.D Guest writer for Wake Up World In recent years, the process of ‘restorative justice’ has been used more and more frequently as a way of dealing with crime. As...