August 28th, 2024 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World Some people are reluctant to spend time alone. Solitude makes them anxious and restless, and so they...
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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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Inexplicable Communications – The Surprising Scientific Evidence for Mediumship.
March 22nd, 2024 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World In 1985, the strangest chess match in history began. Wolfgang Eisenbeiss, a Swiss amateur chess player with an...
When Empathy Switches Off
January 22nd, 2024 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World After studying children brought up in orphanages and other institutions in the 1930s and 1940s, the British...
Is It Possible to Foresee Death?
December 14th, 2023 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World Over the last year or so, I have published a number of posts about unusual phenomena that occur...
You Can’t Explain Human Experience in Purely Physical Terms: Does the Soul Exist?
August 10th, 2023 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World The idea of a “soul” runs through our language and culture. We talk about soulmates, soul...
Why Some People Hand Their Lives Over to Cults
By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World A couple of years ago, I wrote an article called “The Abdication Syndrome,” in which I tried to explain the power of...
Why People Rush to Engage in Heroic Altruism
June 2nd, 2023 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World Six years ago this week, on May 22, 2017, my home city of Manchester, England, suffered a terrorist attack...
Strange Experiences While Witnessing Death: Explorations at the Border of Life and Death
April 28th, 2023 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World This is second article in a two-part series. You can read the first part here. In my last article, I...
Why Strange Things Sometimes Happen as Someone Is Dying
April 20th, 2023 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World This is part one of a two-part series. My mother passed away a few weeks ago, after a long illness. While sitting...
Why Some Scientists Resist the Evidence for Psi
March 2nd, 2023 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World I have been writing blog posts for Psychology Today for 12 years now. I have regularly written about...
A Transformation of Purpose: From Selfishness to Altruism
February 14th, 2023 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World A sense of purpose means having a central, overarching goal (or goals) that provides a sense...
Chemical Enlightenment? Can Psychedelic Substances Bring Personal Transformation?
January 13th, 2023 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World In the 1960s, there was a popular belief – popularised by psychedelic pioneers like Timothy Leary...