Practical Steps to Embark on Your Spiritual Awakening Journey (feat. Steve Taylor)
Awakening is the greatest adventure we can undertake as human beings. My guest, Steve Taylor, says it’s a voyage of discovery that reveals exhilarating beauty and richness but may also expose us to challenges.
As travelers, cultivating certain characteristics and perspectives can make our voyage more fruitful. Today, Steve will guide us on this path of enlightenment.
Steve Taylor, PhD, is the author of The Adventure: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Awakening and many other bestselling books. He’s a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University and the chair of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society. Steve’s articles and essays have been published in over 100 academic journals, magazines, and newspapers, and he blogs for Scientific American and Psychology Today.
In this conversation, Steve offers step-by-step practices for cultivating spiritual awakening and explains its impact on our lives. He touches on the eight essential qualities of wakefulness and how we can integrate those into our daily lives through rituals and practices.
Interview timestamps:
03:30 ︳What inspired Steve to write his book ‘The Adventure’
04:53 ︳The different types of spiritual experiences
08:15 ︳Why happiness cannot be found outside ourselves but within
10:58 ︳The eight qualities of wakefulness in our spiritual awakening journey
12:57 ︳What is the “taking for granted syndrome,” and how can we overcome it
17:27 ︳Continuation of the eight qualities of wakefulness in our spiritual awakening journey
21:50 ︳A healthy way to relate to the past
23:22 ︳Continuation of the eight qualities of wakefulness in our spiritual awakening journey
30:17 ︳How spiritually awakened people fit into society and feel a sense of normalcy
33:29 ︳The key to accepting people for who they are, no matter what level of consciousness they’re at
Learn more about Steve Taylor and his book "The Adventure: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Awakening," at his website.
