The Adventure

Foreword by Eckhart Tolle

Introduction

1. Guidelines: Beginning the Adventure

2. Disidentification: Freedom from the Thought-Mind

3. Gratitude: Overcoming the Taking for Granted Syndrome

4. Presence: Freedom from Time

5. Altruism: Giving to the World

6. Acceptance: Becoming One with Reality

7. Integration: Harmony with the Body

8. Detachment: Freedom from Psychological Attachments

9. Embracing Mortality: Awakening through Awareness of Death

10. The Endless Adventure "Steve Taylor's inspiring contribution in the field of consciousness and spirituality continues with The Adventure. I warmly recommend both Steve and this book, his most practical to date, to anyone wishing to discover true happiness and uncover the awareness of being."

- Rupert Spira, author of You Are the Happiness You Seek



"If you follow this book's guidance, your life's journey can become what it is meant to be: 'a glorious adventure, full of grace and joy.' "

- from the foreword by Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now



"The Adventure is a brilliantly clear and pragmatic guide to spiritual awakening, expertly written by Steve Taylor, a transpersonal psychologist who has spent decades researching the characteristics of life-changing awakenings. If you're ready to drop the heavy baggage of the past and future and enter the sublime freedom of the Now, this wonderful book is your ticket to transformation."

- Mike Kewley, author of The Treasure House: Discovering Enlightenment Exactly Where You Are



"This is such a warm book. It's like sitting down with a wise friend who can lead you step-by-step to remember the qualities of who you are and how to bring them into the foreground of your experience. A beautiful book for anyone looking for practical ways to experience the feeling of their awakened, present being."

- Helen Amery, awakening guide and coauthor of The Complete Book of Awakening

Steve Taylor, PhD, is a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University and the author of The Calm Center, The Leap, Extraordinary Awakenings, and other books. Eckhart Tolle describes his work as "an important contribution to the shift in consciousness which is happening on our planet." He lives in Manchester, England.



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• In his popular books The Leap and Extraordinary Awakenings, Steve Taylor has presented his groundbreaking research into the phenomenon of spiritual awakening. Here, he lays out his program allowing readers to experience awakening for themselves.


• The author has appeared repeatedly in Mind Body Spirit magazine's list of the world's "100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People"

• The ninth title in New World Library's popular Eckhart Tolle Editions imprint

• Presents a nonsectarian approach to spirituality aimed at the growing "spiritual but not religious" demographic

• Based on Taylor's popular workshops



Step-by-step practices for cultivating spiritual awakening, from a renowned spiritual psychologist who has studied the phenomenon in hundreds of people and experienced it himself



Steve Taylor has devoted his life to investigating spiritual awakening. In his books The Leap and Extraordinary Awakenings, he discussed case histories of dozens of people who experienced profound shifts in consciousness. The Adventure draws on this groundbreaking research, together with Taylor's own awakening experiences, to offer guided meditations, contemplative exercises, and other practices for catalyzing spiritual transformation, as well as lyric poems and inspirational stories.



The Adventure outlines how to:



• recognize and cultivate the eight defining characteristics of wakefulness, including presence, acceptance, gratitude, and disidentification from the ego

• expand awareness and quiet the mind through meditations and practical exercises

• transcend our