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To many readers, the term ?spiritual enlightenment” conjures up visions of red-robed monks or long-bearded gurus living on remote mountaintops. Enlightenment, according to conventional wisdom, is unattainable for ordinary people living in the modern West. Psychologist Steve Taylor admits that he once shared that simplistic notion but gradually revised his thinking after researching mystical experiences and interviewing people who claim to have had them. To his surprise, Taylor found that normal modern-day people from different faiths and walks of life really have reached modes of higher consciousness (or wakefulness, as Taylor calls it). In fact, these experiences are more common than we realize.
Drawing on his knowledge of different religious traditions, Taylor set out to find the common features of these awakened states and how the rest of us might also achieve wakefulness. The result of his inquiry is The Leap, a cross-cultural investigation of spirituality, belief, and the inner workings of the human mind. Taylor begins his discussion with some biographical sketches of great artists and thinkers who have attained awakened states (Walt Whitman, William Blake, D.H. Lawrence, Richard Jeffries, William Wordsworth, and others), comparing their insights to those of his interview subjects.
In the course of The Leap, Taylor covers several other aspects of mystical experience:
* The different types of wakefulness ? natural, gradual, and intentional
* The difference between fraudulent spiritual teachers and the genuinely awakened
* The sometimes disorienting effects of spiritual awakenings on those who undergo them
* How different theories of consciousness explain (or try to debunk) mystical experiences
Above all, Taylor reminds us that we don’t have to join an ashram in a distant country to attain enlightenment, but that we can find it where we are right now.
Drawing on his knowledge of different religious traditions, Taylor set out to find the common features of these awakened states and how the rest of us might also achieve wakefulness. The result of his inquiry is The Leap, a cross-cultural investigation of spirituality, belief, and the inner workings of the human mind. Taylor begins his discussion with some biographical sketches of great artists and thinkers who have attained awakened states (Walt Whitman, William Blake, D.H. Lawrence, Richard Jeffries, William Wordsworth, and others), comparing their insights to those of his interview subjects.
In the course of The Leap, Taylor covers several other aspects of mystical experience:
* The different types of wakefulness ? natural, gradual, and intentional
* The difference between fraudulent spiritual teachers and the genuinely awakened
* The sometimes disorienting effects of spiritual awakenings on those who undergo them
* How different theories of consciousness explain (or try to debunk) mystical experiences
Above all, Taylor reminds us that we don’t have to join an ashram in a distant country to attain enlightenment, but that we can find it where we are right now.
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Steve Taylor is the author of several books on spirituality and psychology, including The Fall and Waking from Sleep. He has also published two previous book of poetic spiritual reflections, The Meaning and Calm Center. He is a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University in the United Kingdom. Since 2011, he has appeared annually in Mind, Body, Spirit magazine’s list of ?the world’s 100 most spiritually influential living people.”
Eckhart Tolle is the author of The Power of Now and A New Earth.
Eckhart Tolle is the author of The Power of Now and A New Earth.
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