Steve Taylor: The Evolutionary Impulse to Awaken

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June 12, 2018

Steve Taylor: The Evolutionary Impulse to Awaken

Steve Taylor June 12, 2018

Steve Taylor is a senior lecturer at Leeds Beckett University in the UK and the author of many books, including The Fall, The Leap, and Waking from Sleep. With Sounds True, he has published the audio program Return to Harmony: From Turmoil to Transformation. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Steve and Tami Simon talk about the concept of spiritual awakening: what it means, the different ways it arises, and how it changes a person’s day-to-day life. They also discuss why the most common and sudden form of awakening occurs during psychological distress and trauma. Steve describes his concept of a “wakeful self system” that comes online after a spiritual awakening and how this corresponds to the concept of the higher self. Finally, Steve and Tami speak on spiritual awakening as a part of the evolutionary process, including Steve’s thoughts on humanity’s historical relationship to wakefulness and the joyous possibility of an “evolutionary leap” to come. (65 minutes)

Steve Taylor is a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University and the author of several books on psychology and spirituality, including The Calm Center, Back to Sanity, and The Leap. Eckhart Tolle has called his work “an important contribution to the shift in consciousness happening on our planet.” More at stevenmtaylor.com.

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Steve Taylor: The Evolutionary Impulse to Awaken

Steve Taylor is a senior lecturer at Leeds Beckett University in the UK and the author of many books, including The Fall, The Leap, and Waking from Sleep. With Sounds True, he has published the audio program Return to Harmony: From Turmoil to Transformation. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Steve and Tami Simon talk about the concept of spiritual awakening: what it means, the different ways it arises, and how it changes a person’s day-to-day life. They also discuss why the most common and sudden form of awakening occurs during psychological distress and trauma. Steve describes his concept of a “wakeful self system” that comes online after a spiritual awakening and how this corresponds to the concept of the higher self. Finally, Steve and Tami speak on spiritual awakening as a part of the evolutionary process, including Steve’s thoughts on humanity’s historical relationship to wakefulness and the joyous possibility of an “evolutionary leap” to come. (65 minutes)

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