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...
Category - Psychology
The Critical Thinking Trap: How the “Conspiracy Theory” Label Undermines the Truth
By Katherine Smith Ph.D Guest writer for Wake Up World Conspiracy Theories: The Public Trust Skepticism Factor “Conspiracy” is a real word for a real events that have taken...
Parapsychology: How Science is Proving that Psychic Experiences are REAL
By Phillip J. Watt Guest Writer for Wake Up World Quantum physics illustrates that the classical, manifested world is illusory by its very nature, yet the daily routine of waking up as an individual...
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...
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...
Ecocide: The Psychology of Environmental Destruction
By Steve Taylor Ph.D Guest Writer for Wake Up World Why Can’t We Live in Harmony With the Rest of Nature? Recent scientific reports about climate change make grim reading. A new paper published...