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Essays and Articles

Here is a selection of the essays and articles I’ve written over the last few years. Many of them have been previously published, in popular magazines like Psychologies and Natural Health, spiritual magazines like Resurgence and Soul and Spirit, and in academic journals like The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology and The International Journal of Transpersonal Studies. Some of them have never been published before.

They cover my main interests: the nature of awakening experiences and their causes, the awakening effect of encountering death, the nature of time, the psychology of happiness, the origins of social pathologies like warfare and social inequality, and so on.

There are a few academic papers, complete with abstracts and lists of references, but mostly these were written for a general readership.

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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