Waking From Sleep: Why Awakening Experiences Occur and How to Make Them Permanent

by Steve Taylor

Overview

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!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781401928704
Publisher:	Hay House, Inc.
Publication date:	12/01/2010
Edition description:	Original
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

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 viii

Introduction ix

1 The Varieties of Awakening Experience 1

2 Beyond the World of Form: High-Intensity Awakening Experiences 19

3 The Validity of Awakening Experiences 35

4 Disrupting the Equilibrium 63

5 Life-Energy and Awakening Experiences 101

6 Spontaneous Awakening Experiences 123

7 Other Types of Energetic Awakening 145

8 Energy and Awakening 171

9 Permanent Awakening 185

10 The Way to Wakefulness 215

Notes 233

Bibliography 246

Index 258

Mind Map of Waking from Sleep 268

About Steve Taylor 270

Interviews

Manchester, England

Editorial Reviews

'An astounding book, which has the potential to awaken is readers.' Stanley Krippner, PhD, Co-author Personal Mythology

"The most enlightening book about enlightenment I have ever read." Ervin Laszlo

"One of the best books on spiritual awakening I have come across. An important contribution to the shift in consciousness that is happening on our planet at this time." Eckhart Tolle

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