Waking from Sleep: Why Awakening Experiences Occur and How to Make them Permanent

by Steve Taylor

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How much of your waking time are you fully awake?

How often do you stumble through the day on auto-pilot, half asleep and out of contact with yourself, instead of feeling connected and alive?

In this astounding book, Steve Taylor suggests that our normal consciousness is really a kind of 'sleep' from which we sometimes 'wake up', into a more intense and complete reality. Waking from Sleep provides what is perhaps the first ever clear explanation of higher states of consciousness, or 'awakening experiences'.

This book examines:

* the methods that human beings have used throughout history to induce awakening experiences, including meditation, sex, nature, sport, psychedelic drugs and sleep deprivation
* how higher states of consciousness were normal and natural to some of the world's peoples (and still are in some cases)
* how we can make 'wakefulness' our normal state again.

By fully explaining awakening experiences, this book makes them much more accessible, and may even lead to a revolution in our psychological development as human beings.
  • ISBN10 184850179X
  • ISBN13 9781848501799
  • Publish Date 1 February 2010
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Hay House UK Ltd
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 292
  • Language English