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Director: Elliot CohenPGCE(HE) PhD CPsychol

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NEW Degree programme BA (Hons) 

Psychology and Society BA (Hons) Degree opportunity formature students.Read more...

The Manchester Academy for Transpersonal Studies is delightedto announce a forthcoming partnership and ongoing collaborations withtheSynthesise co-operative,transpersonal studies centre in Manchester.

Waking from sleep

Steve Taylor's new book 'Waking From Sleep: the Causes ofAwakening Experiences and How to make them Permanent' has just beenpublished by Hay House UK, and is now available on Amazon (and inWaterstone's). It's had the following endorsements from Eckhart Tolleand Ervin Lazslo:

'One of the best books on spiritual awakening I have read. An importantcontribution to the global shift in consciousness which is happening onour planet.' Eckhart Tolle.

'The most enlightening book about enlightenment I have ever read.'Ervin Lazslo.

The book is available to order athttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Waking-Sleep-Awakening-Experiences-Permanent/dp/184850179X/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1

Here is a short clip of Steve talking about the book:

http://www.youtube.com/user/hayhousevideos#p/a/u/0/SRbcsmWlbxk

For more information contact him atessytaylor@yahoo.com

What do you mean by Transpersonal?

Let us begin by asking who it is that is reading these wordsright now. Who are you? Are you your body, your thoughts, yourmemories, your opinions? Are you all these things all the time, some ofthese things some of the time? Are you merely the accumulated memory ofall you have ever sensed and experienced? As you read this do you beginto suspect that there is perhaps something more mysterious at play?Where does this feeling of being arise from?

Transpersonal literally means to look beyond the limited, self-imposedpersonal sphere, with the ultimate aim of transforming or transcendingthis small sense of ‘I'. It is often placed under the grand heading ofSpirituality, the Spiritual Dimension, Path and Experience. To thisextent the Transpersonal realm is concerned with Human potential andwholeness.

Transpersonal Studies includes the study of all the world's greatWisdom Traditions, Philosophy (Eastern and Western), Mythology,Anthropology, Mysticism and Psychology.

Growing interest in the Transpersonal?

In recent years there has been an increasing amount ofinterest in Transpersonal experience from the British PsychologicalSociety (which has a Transpersonal Section), and the Royal College ofPsychiatry (which has a spirituality special interests group).

Previous courses have been run at Manchester University's Centre forContinuing Education, to great acclaim. Due to their popularity it ishoped that they may be offered at additional locations, open to thegeneral public

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