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Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the edge. Today my guest is Steve Taylor.

Steve Taylor is a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University and the

author of several books on psychology and spirituality, including the Calm Center and The Leap.

Ekartoli has described his work as an important contribution to the shift in consciousness that's happening right now on our planet.

With sounds true, Steve Taylor has created a new audio teaching series called Return to Harmony, from

turmoil to transformation, where he shows how to return to the essential harmony that's at the core of our being

back to the fundamental state of peace and presence.

In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Steve and I spoke about three different types of spiritual

awakening.

Natural awakening. The gradual path of spiritual practice, and the sudden awakening that can come

from psychological distress and trauma. We also talked about how there are degrees of spiritual awakening

and the core characteristics of wakefulness.

We talked about what Steve calls the wakeful self system and how when the ego

dissolves in his experience there is a latent higher self that like a bird can emerge fully formed in our experience.

Finally, we talked about spiritual awakening as part of an evolutionary process, how we went through a fall, as Steve describes it, 6,000 years ago, and are now at the edge of what he calls an evolutionary leap.

Here's my conversation with Steve Taylor. Steve, I'm excited to talk to you because one of your areas of writing and research is something that I'm intensely

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