Waking from Sleep

by Taylor, Steve

• ISBN13: 9781401928704
• ISBN10: 1401928706
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-01
• Publisher: Hay House Inc

Summary

How much of your waking time are you fully awake? On the other hand, how often do you stumble through the day on autopilot, half-asleep and out of contact with yourself, instead of feeling connected and alive? In this astounding book, Steve Taylor suggests that our normal consciousness is really a kind of sleep” from which we sometimes wake up” into a more intense and complete reality. He provides what is perhaps the first-ever clear explanation of higher states of consciousness, or awakening experiences.” This work delves into: the methods we human beings have used throughout history to induce awakening experiences, including meditation, sex, sports, psychedelic drugs, and sleep deprivation; how higher states of consciousness were normal and natural to some of the world’s peoples (and still are, in some cases); and how we can make wakefulness” our normal state again. By fully explaining awakening experiences, the author makes them much more accessible, which may lead to a revolution in our psychological development as human beings!

Author Biography

Steve Taylor, the author of The Fall and Making Time, is a teacher whose main interests are spirituality and psychology. He taught courses on personal development at the University of Manchester in the UK for several years, and is now a researcher in transpersonal psychology at Liverpool John Moores University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Introduction	p. ix
The Varieties of Awakening Experience	p. 1
Beyond the World of Form: High-Intensity Awakening Experiences	p. 19
The Validity of Awakening Experiences	p. 35
Disrupting the Equilibrium	p. 63
Life-Energy and Awakening Experiences	p. 101
Spontaneous Awakening Experiences	p. 123
Other Types of Energetic Awakening	p. 145
Energy and Awakening	p. 171
Permanent Awakening	p. 185
The Way to Wakefulness	p. 215
Notes	p. 233
Bibliography	p. 246
Index	p. 258
Mind Map of Waking from Sleep	p. 268
About Steve Taylor	p. 270
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