(Ebook) Waking From Sleep, Why Awakening Experiences Occur and How to Make them Permanent by Steve Taylor ISBN 9781848501799, 184850179X

(Ebook) Waking From Sleep, Why Awakening Experiences Occur and How to Make them Permanent by Steve Taylor ISBN 9781848501799, 184850179X

How much of your waking time are you fully awake? How often do vou stumble through the day on auto-pilot, 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. Wakitig from Sleep provides what is perhaps the first ever clear cxplanation of higher States of consciousness, or ‘awakening experiences’.This book examines:• the methods that human beings have used throughout history to induce awakening experiences, including meditation, sex, nature, sport, 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)• how we can make ‘wakefulness’ our normal state again.By fully explaining awakening experiences, this book makes them much more accessible, and may even lead to a revolution in our psychological development as human beings.Steve Taylor is an author and teacher whose main interests are spirituality and psychology. He taught courses on personal development at the University of Manchester for several years and is now a researcher in Transpersonal Psychology at Liverpool John Moores University. He is the author of The Fall and Making Time. Steve lives in Manchester with his wife and young children.