Steve Taylor 
The Adventure 
A Practical Guide to Spiritual Awakening

Step-by-step practices for cultivating spiritual awakening, from a renowned spiritual psychologist who has studied the phenomenon in hundreds of people and experienced it himself



Steve Taylor has devoted his life to investigating spiritual awakening. In his books
The Leap and
Extraordinary Awakenings, he discussed case histories of dozens of people who experienced profound shifts in consciousness.
The Adventure draws on this groundbreaking research, together with Taylor’s own awakening experiences, to offer guided meditations, contemplative exercises, and other practices for catalyzing spiritual transformation, as well as lyric poems and inspirational stories.




The Adventure outlines how to:



• recognize and cultivate the eight defining characteristics of wakefulness, including presence, acceptance, gratitude, and disidentification from the ego

• expand awareness and quiet the mind through meditations and practical exercises

• transcend our normal “sleep” state and the “thought mind” to move toward increasing heights and depths of spiritual awakening

• use the challenges of everyday life — of home, workplace, and relationships — as doorways to enlightenment

Table of Content

Foreword by Eckhart Tolle



Introduction 



1. Guidelines: Beginning the Adventure



2. Disidentification: Freedom from the Thought-Mind



3. Gratitude: Overcoming the Taking for Granted Syndrome



4. Presence: Freedom from Time



5. Altruism: Giving to the World 



6. Acceptance: Becoming One with Reality



7. Integration: Harmony with the Body



8. Detachment: Freedom from Psychological Attachments



9. Embracing Mortality: Awakening through Awareness of Death



10. The Endless Adventure

About the author

Steve Taylor, Ph D, is a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University and the author of
The Calm Center,
The Leap,
Extraordinary Awakenings, and other books. Eckhart Tolle describes his work as “an important contribution to the shift in consciousness which is happening on our planet.” He lives in Manchester, England.


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