The Enlightenment Quest and the Art of Happiness: Mastering Life through Higher Power
Award-winning actor and playwright John Maxwell Taylor builds on the success of his previous book, The Power of I Am, in this eloquent call to awaken from our collective trance and to claim the transformative power and happiness that is our birthright. Drawing on his forty years’ experience in spiritual self-transformation, Taylor offers a potent array of practical tools, stories, and life lessons that help us reorder the events in our lives, the way people respond to us, and the impact we have on the world.  The Enlightenment Quest and the Art of Happiness shows us how to master ourselves so that we can harness the energy of higher power to surmount the chaos of the modern world and provides strategies for “sociological aikido” that allow us to deal effectively with negative people, narcissists, and egotists. Informed by Taylor’s incredibly varied background—from European pop star, to student of Paramahansa Yogananda, Gurdjieff, and Mantak Chia, to resident at the pioneering Findhorn Community, to playing Carl Jung on stage for many years—this book demonstrates how, by understanding the powers active in creation, we can become instruments through which higher power continually flows to advance our evolution toward consciousness. In doing so, we not only transform ourselves, we become powerful agents for changing the world.


Readers learn how to: 
• Deal with negative people and egotists
• Use higher power to redirect the world around one to one's own advantage
• Stay sane in an insane world by understanding true spiritual psychology
• See the world as it is instead of spiritually daydreaming that "things are going to get better" 
• Move beyond conspiracy theories and conspire instead to create a united world of consciousness
• Gain fresh insights into the work of Campbell, Jung, Paramahansa Yogananda, Gurdjieff, and others
• Apply the Findhorn principles of miraculous manifestation as practiced by the author since 1973
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The Enlightenment Quest and the Art of Happiness: Mastering Life through Higher Power
Award-winning actor and playwright John Maxwell Taylor builds on the success of his previous book, The Power of I Am, in this eloquent call to awaken from our collective trance and to claim the transformative power and happiness that is our birthright. Drawing on his forty years’ experience in spiritual self-transformation, Taylor offers a potent array of practical tools, stories, and life lessons that help us reorder the events in our lives, the way people respond to us, and the impact we have on the world.  The Enlightenment Quest and the Art of Happiness shows us how to master ourselves so that we can harness the energy of higher power to surmount the chaos of the modern world and provides strategies for “sociological aikido” that allow us to deal effectively with negative people, narcissists, and egotists. Informed by Taylor’s incredibly varied background—from European pop star, to student of Paramahansa Yogananda, Gurdjieff, and Mantak Chia, to resident at the pioneering Findhorn Community, to playing Carl Jung on stage for many years—this book demonstrates how, by understanding the powers active in creation, we can become instruments through which higher power continually flows to advance our evolution toward consciousness. In doing so, we not only transform ourselves, we become powerful agents for changing the world.


Readers learn how to: 
• Deal with negative people and egotists
• Use higher power to redirect the world around one to one's own advantage
• Stay sane in an insane world by understanding true spiritual psychology
• See the world as it is instead of spiritually daydreaming that "things are going to get better" 
• Move beyond conspiracy theories and conspire instead to create a united world of consciousness
• Gain fresh insights into the work of Campbell, Jung, Paramahansa Yogananda, Gurdjieff, and others
• Apply the Findhorn principles of miraculous manifestation as practiced by the author since 1973
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The Enlightenment Quest and the Art of Happiness: Mastering Life through Higher Power

The Enlightenment Quest and the Art of Happiness: Mastering Life through Higher Power

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Award-winning actor and playwright John Maxwell Taylor builds on the success of his previous book, The Power of I Am, in this eloquent call to awaken from our collective trance and to claim the transformative power and happiness that is our birthright. Drawing on his forty years’ experience in spiritual self-transformation, Taylor offers a potent array of practical tools, stories, and life lessons that help us reorder the events in our lives, the way people respond to us, and the impact we have on the world.  The Enlightenment Quest and the Art of Happiness shows us how to master ourselves so that we can harness the energy of higher power to surmount the chaos of the modern world and provides strategies for “sociological aikido” that allow us to deal effectively with negative people, narcissists, and egotists. Informed by Taylor’s incredibly varied background—from European pop star, to student of Paramahansa Yogananda, Gurdjieff, and Mantak Chia, to resident at the pioneering Findhorn Community, to playing Carl Jung on stage for many years—this book demonstrates how, by understanding the powers active in creation, we can become instruments through which higher power continually flows to advance our evolution toward consciousness. In doing so, we not only transform ourselves, we become powerful agents for changing the world.


Readers learn how to: 
• Deal with negative people and egotists
• Use higher power to redirect the world around one to one's own advantage
• Stay sane in an insane world by understanding true spiritual psychology
• See the world as it is instead of spiritually daydreaming that "things are going to get better" 
• Move beyond conspiracy theories and conspire instead to create a united world of consciousness
• Gain fresh insights into the work of Campbell, Jung, Paramahansa Yogananda, Gurdjieff, and others
• Apply the Findhorn principles of miraculous manifestation as practiced by the author since 1973

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781583949184
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Publication date: 03/24/2015
Pages: 328
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Award-winning actor and playwright JOHN MAXWELL TAYLOR has over forty years experience in spiritual self transformation. Internationally known for his of Carl Jung in his one-man play Forever Jung, Taylor is also the creator of two musicals and the author of The Power of I AM and Eros Ascending, which won a USA Best Book News Award.

Table of Contents

Introduction Emily Hartwell Taylor xv

Preface: The Heroic Journey xvii

Chapter 1 Living from the Miraculous 1

What Is Self-Mastery? 2

Staying Centered in a World of Change 3

Beyond the Collective Trance 4

Soul-Infused Living in the Information Age 6

Demonstrating the Miraculous Power for Yourself 11

The Egotist Defined 13

Conscience, Consciousness, and Right Behavior 16

Accepting Responsibility for Your Spiritual Power 18

Chapter 2 Get Out of Your Head, Into Your Body, and Into Your Life 23

Our Spiritual Power Is Being Hijacked by a High-Tech World 25

Babies Are Yogis: What We Can Learn from Observing Them 27

Visual Evidence of Higher-Power Connection 28

Exercise to Experience the Lightness of Being for Yourself 29

Creating a Dynamic Brain-Body Connection 31

Make Inner Silence a Priority and Control Your Life Energy 32

Creation and Nature Want Us to Win 34

A Brain Researcher's Enlightenment Experience 37

Brain-Body Dynamics: A Technique 39

Helping the Brain to Decode the Truth 40

Self-Mastery and the Laws of Manifestation 41

Chapter 3 Findhorn and Miraculous Manifestation Principles 43

The Adventures of a Mystical Englishman in Scotland 43

Getting Fired as Part of the Divine Plan 45

Creating a Community Based on Spiritual Principles 48

Miraculous Deliveries of Compost … and Blue Jeans! 52

The Sensing and Feeling Technique 55

Miraculous Journeying: Needs Being Met While on the Road 57

Your Author Arrives at Findhorn 59

Miraculously Manifesting a Much-Needed Guitar 60

Learning That Work Is Love in Action 62

Learning from Experience, Findhorn-Style 65

Attunement Places Me in the Right Place at the Perfect Moment 66

Chapter 4 Life After Findhorn: Manifestation Principles in Action in the USA 71

Needs Being Met in Last-Minute Perfect Timing 72

Manifestation + Synchronicity = Success 75

The Perseverance Factor 78

Fill Yourself with a Sense of Vision and Mission to Align with Higher Power 80

Once We Commit, the Universe Responds 81

Entr'acte 86

Chapter 5 "Conspirituality"-A Gathering Storm of Consciousness or the Aquarian Conspiracy Gone Wrong? 89

The Self-Metamorphosing Power of Aquarius 90

The Myth-Busting Mystical Madness of David Icke 92

Dr. Herb Agan on David Icke: "Only the shadow knows." 102

Changing the World by Changing Its Story 104

The Influence of Hollywood on the Conspiracy Theory Phenomenon 105

A Trojan Horse of Crazy Ideas 108

Brute Ignorance 110

Chemtrails: A Conspiracy We Can See 111

The Twilight of the Material Consciousness Gods 112

Wrestling with Reptilians: David Icke versus Jesse Ventura 116

The Amazing Art of Spiritual Social Self-Defense 118

Chapter 6 Secrets of Sociological Aikido: How to Deal with Difficult People and Egotists 121

Expansion in Consciousness Produces Sensitivity to Life 124

Do You Feel "Seen" by Relatives and Sleepwalking People? 126

The Essence Eye and the Personality Eye 127

Seeing Essence and Personality in Your Own Eyes 130

Adapting Aikido to Social Situations 132

Sociological Aikido in Action 133

Sorting Out the Wise Guy 135

An Irresponsible Youth Meets a Cleveland Obi-Wan Kenobi 137

The Power of Looking in the "Third Eye" 139

The Brain Transmits Electromagnetic Vibrations through the Eyes 141

You Have a Right to Protect Your Spiritual Energy 142

Chapter 7 Cycles of Time and the Earth's Destiny 145

Signs of Kali Yuga in the Twenty-First Century: The Down-Turned Tongue 148

Changing the World Through Non-Cooperation with Delusion 153

What the Devil Is the Devil? 155

Brain Research Studies Prove Just How Unconscious We Are 157

The Need for Conscience and Consciousness 160

A Researcher Who Had Balls 162

Jung vs. Freud on Freedom from Neuroses 163

Self-Mastering People Must Live and Speak Their Truth 167

Chapter 8 Up Your Ego! Cleaning the Lens Through Which Consciousness Sees the World 169

Let's Go to the Movies and Learn About the Shadow 169

The "Id" According to Freud 171

Why Is Ego a Four-Letter Word? 172

Getting Some Sanity from Looney Tunes 173

Insights from Jung on the Nature of the Ego 174

Healthy Ego Development in an Age of Narcissism 177

Our Souls Are Actors Playing Imaginary People 180

Jung Kills Siegfried, the Heroic Aryan Archetype 181

A Good Day for a Soul-Connected Ego is a Good Day for the World 184

Exercise for Creating Divine Ego-hood 185

How to Use Affirmations Effectively 185

Chapter 9 The Great Escape: Transcending the Illusions of Maya (The Cosmic Magician) 187

Maya Is the Ultimate Conspiracy 188

Mind Over Maya Is the Real "Great Escape" 189

Worlds in Collision Redux 190

Chaos Theory: The Joker in the Deck 193

Jung, UFOs, and Parallel Realities (by Dr. Herb Agan) 195

Mechanical Evolution or Conscious Self-Evolution 197

Ancient Alienism: Reconstructing Our Mythic Past 198

Creation as a Food Chain: We Are What We Eat or Eats Us 201

Shape-Shifting Entities Occupied This Woman's Body 204

We Stand Between Heaven and Earth 205

The Day the Sun Zigzagged in the Sky 206

Golden Frogs and Talking Dragons 207

Seeing Through the Dreaming Universe 208

Chapter 10 Creating Universal Harmony Within: The Planets and Your Internal Organs 211

The Planetary Harmonization Self-Mastery Techniques 216

We Can Help the Brain to Clean Itself 220

Connecting with Key Points in the Brain 223

The Pituitary Gland 223

The Medulla Oblongata 224

The Pineal Gland 226

Tuning Up the Amygdala 229

The Thalamus and the Hypothalamus 230

Holy, Holy, Holy! Three in One in Your Brain 232

Washing Your Brain with Light 233

Washing the Orbital Cortex 235

Washing the Unconscious 235

Injecting Light into the Reptilian Brain 236

Crowns of Light Around the Head 237

Filling the Whole Body with Light 238

Washing with Light: A Quick Method 239

Chapter 11 The Secret Art of Being and Doing and Loving 241

Who Is the "Doer"? 242

A Philosophy for "Doing" in an Illusory World 244

Right Behavior and the Authority of Consciousness 249

The Power to Stand Unshaken in Times of Difficulty 250

Connecting with "I Am That I Am" in the Spine 253

Three Divine Powers for You to Use 254

Who's Afraid of the G.O.D. Word? 256

Teachers Who Get Stuck in Enlightenment Limbo 258

Enjoying Life without Becoming Enslaved by Actions and Desires 261

The Dopamine Connection 262

Chapter 12 The Spiritualized Psyche: Reclaiming the Inner World Through the Power of Truth 267

Happiness and the Transformation of Negative Emotions 268

Personal Difficulties and Suffering 270

Envisioning a New Model of the Psyche 271

Claiming the Kingdom of the Psyche for the Divinity Within 280

Identity Tripping in the Circles of the Mind 284

Finding Peace and Protection in Omnipresent Redemptive Power 286

Of Memes and Men: Are Your Thoughts Really Your Own? 291

Living from the Center 293

Epilogue: The Courage to Be Free in the Twenty-First Century 297

About the A uthors 301

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