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

Състояние: Много добро
Забележка: Използвана книга, здрави корици, чисто книжно тяло, позахабен външен вид.
Издателство: Hay House
Град на издаване: London
Наличност: singular
Ширина (мм): 135
Височина (мм): 215
Дебелина (мм): 15
Корици: Меки

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.

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Contents

Acknowledgements viii

Introduction ix

1. The Varieties of Awakening Experience 1
2. Beyond the World of Form: High-Intensity Awakening Experiences 19
3. The Validity of Awakening Experiences 35
4. Disrupting the Equilibrium 63
5. Life-Energy and Awakening Experiences 101
6. Spontaneous Awakening Experiences 123
7. Other Types of Energetic Awakening 145
8. Energy and Awakening 171
9. Permanent Awakening * - 185
10. The Way to Wakefulness 215

Notes 233

Bibliography 246

Index 258