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Beyond the Pre/Trans Fallacy: The Validity of Pre-Egoic Spiritual Experience

Originally published in The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology

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Academic Articles

An Awakening: Have Awakening Experiences been Neglected by Psychology?
Moving Beyond Materialism: Can Transpersonal Psychology Contribute to Cultural Transformation?
The Return of Perennial Perspectives? Why Transpersonal Psychology Should Remain Open to Essentialism
Exploring Awakening Experiences: A study of awakening experiences in terms of their triggers, characteristics, duration, and after effects.
From Philosophy to Phenomenology: The Argument for a “Soft” Perennialism
Energy and Awakening: A Psycho-Sexual Interpretation of Kundalini Awakening
The Peak at the Nadir – Psychological Turmoil as the Trigger for Awakening Experiences
A Model of Purpose: From Survival to Transpersonal Purpose Steve Taylor
Mortality and Mindfulness: How Intense Encounters with Death Can Generate Spontaneous Mindfulness
Transformation Through Suffering: A Study of Individuals Who Have Experienced Positive Psychological Transformation Following Periods of Intense Turmoil
Spontanous Awakening Experiences: Beyond Religion and Spiritual Practice
Temporary and Permanent Awakening: The Primary and Secondary Shift
Beyond the Pre/Trans Fallacy: The Validity of Pre-Egoic Spiritual Experience

Essays

The Case for the Soul – Re-Enchanting the World with an Old Idea
The Power of Forgiveness: The Transformational Effect of Letting Go of Resentment
Not I, Not Other than I: The Life and Teachings of Russel Williams – Introduction by Steve Taylor
Deconstructing Dawkins: Richard Dawkins and the Fallacies of Mechanistic Science
The Outsider: From Existentialism to Enlightenment
Beyond Explanation: A Trans-Materialist Interpretation of NDEs
The Power of Eckhart Tolle
Harmony of Being: Returning to our True Nature
Empathy: The Power of Connection
Why Do Human Beings Do Good Things? The Puzzle of Altruism
Reclaiming Human Freedom: The Denial of Autonomy – ‘I Refute it Thus!’
Reclaiming the Self: Is your sense of self an illusion? No, it isn’t!
Transcending Time
Foreword to ‘The Awakening Artist’, by Patrick Howe (O Books)
Colin Wilson – A Tribute
The Sleep of Separateness
Spiritual Alchemy: When Trauma and Turmoil Lead to Spiritual Awakening
Waking From Sleep: Natural Spirituality
Transcending Human Madness
The Merging of Male and Female
The Speed of Life: Why Time Seems to Speed Up When We Get Older
The Plateau of Time
The Power of Silence
Before the Fall: Evidence For a Golden Age
After the Fall: The Roots of Psychic Pathology and Alienation From Nature
Beyond War
The Origins of God
Choosing the Future
Crossing the River: Spiritual Experiences at the Point of Death
D.H. Lawrence and ‘The Fall’
Egalitarianism and the Ego Explosion
From the Unreal to the Real
Lawrence the Mystic
Slighting: How to Grow a Thicker Skin
The Path of the Parent: How Children Can Enrich Your Spiritual Life
The Elan Vital and Self-Evolution
Mystical Science: Beyond the Limits of Science
Primal Spirituality and the Onto/Phylo Fallacy
Life Energy and Spiritual Experience
Rimbaud: The Existential Saint
Where is Happiness?
Satsang: The Power of Spiritual Presence

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