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From Philosophy to Phenomenology: The Argument for a “Soft” Perennialism

Originally published in the International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 2016, Vol. 35, No. 2.

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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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