Making the Leap

Making the Leap

Talk
Monday, July 3, 2017 - 19:00 to 20:30
Spiritual
Inspiring
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Steve Taylor is a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University, and the author of several best-selling books on psychology and spirituality.
Description: 

What does it mean to be spiritually awakened? What are the main aspects of spiritual awakening and how can we cultivate them?

Poet and spiritual psychologist Steve Taylor will discuss the main themes of his new bookThe Leap: The Psychology of Spiritual Awakening, just published as an Eckhart Tolle Edition.

Using some of his poetic meditations as a guide, he will illustrate different aspects of awakening, highlighting the importance of acceptance and dissolving our psychological attachments.

He will suggest that there is an evolutionary aspect to awakening, and that we have a responsibility to move towards awakening in order to safeguard the future of our planet.

About the speaker, Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor PhD is the author of 15 books on psychology and spirituality, and is a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University. He is a past chair of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society. His books include DisConnected, Extraordinary Awakenings, The Clear Light, and The Leap. He regularly appears in the media in the UK, including on Radio 4’s Prayer for the Day and the BBC World Service. Eckhart Tolle descibes his work as "an important contribution to the shift in consciousness happening on our planet at present."

Timetable: 
18:30
Doors open
19:00
Talk commences
20:30
Book signing
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