August 17th, 2021 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World Around 2000 years ago, a Hindu sage named Patanjali developed one of the world’s first-ever personal...
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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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Group Flow: When Groups Gain Access to a Mysterious Creativity
August 3rd, 2021 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World Flow is a state of intense absorption in which we lose awareness of ourselves and our surroundings. It arises...
Near-Death Experiences and DMT
July 28th, 2021 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World Near-death experiences are one of the most puzzling phenomena in psychology. A near-death experience is when...
The Possibility of Precognition
July 7th, 2021 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World In 1946, a man called John Godley – then a student at Oxford University – dreamt he was reading a...
How Acceptance Can Transform Your Life
By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World Some time ago I wrote an article about acceptance, explaining how the act of accepting a situation can transform your state of...
The Continuum of Connection: Why Connection is the Most Essential Human Trait
June 18th, 2021 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World In 1939, at his ashram in central India, Mahatma Gandhi was growing increasingly concerned about events in Europe...
Why Our “Common Sense” View of Time May Be False
June 2nd, 2021 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World At the age of 16, Tony Kofi was an apprentice builder, living in Nottingham, UK. One day, he fell from the third...
How Awareness and Coincidence Intersect
May 18th, 2021 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World From time to time, most of us have strange experiences that defy common sense and can’t be explained. Some...
Hypnotic Healing: What is Responsible for the Placebo Effect and Hypnosis?
April 20th, 2021 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World In the 1840s, a Scottish doctor living in India named James Esdaile was frequently visited by men with enormous...
The Transformational Effects of Bereavement
March 22nd, 2021 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World One of the most famous stories in Buddhism is the parable of the mustard seeds. A young woman named Kisa Gotami...
When Post-Traumatic Growth is Voluntary: The Impulse that Attracts us to Challenge and Danger
March 5th, 2021 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World After leaving university I had a temporary office job and worked with a man who was an amateur motorcycle...
The Compassion Problem: Why Do Some Religious People Fail to Live Up to Religious Teachings?
By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. Guest writer for Wake Up World The teachings of religious leaders such as Jesus and the Buddha set a high bar for human behavior that their followers have...
