Argues that, most of the time, our waking life is a kind of "sleep" that we only occasionally "wake up" from, experiencing a more intense and complete reality and explains how meditation, sex, nature, sport, psychedelic drugs and sleep deprivation can help lead to higher states of consciousness called "awakening experiences." Original.
Steve Taylor, the author of The Fall and Making Time, is a teacher whose main interests are spirituality and psychology. He taught courses on personal development at the University of Manchester in the UK for several years, and is now a researcher in transpersonal psychology at Liverpool John Moores University.