About Steve Taylor

Dr Steve Taylor is the author of several best-selling books on psychology and spirituality, and is a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Metropolitan University. For the last two years he has been included (this year at no. 38) in Mind, Body, Spirit magazine's list of the '100 most spiritually influential living people.' His books include Waking From Sleep, The Fall, Out of the Darkness, Back to Sanity, and his latest book The Meaning. His books have been published in 13 languages, including Dutch, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Italian, French, Japanese, Polish and Spanish. Eckhart Tolle has described his work as 'an important contribution to the shift in consciousness which is happening on our planet at present.' Andrew Harvey has said of his work, 'Its importance for our menacing times and for the transformation being birthed by them cannot be exaggerated.'

Steve has a PhD in Transpersonal Psychology from Liverpool John Moores University. His articles and essays have been published in over 40 academic journals, magazines and newspapers, including The Journal of Humanistic Psychology, The Journal of Consciousness Studies, The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, Psychologies, Natural Health, Kindred Spirit and Resurgence. His work has been featured widely in the media in the UK, including on BBC Breakfast, BBC World TV, Radio 4 and 5, and in The Guardian, The Independent and The Daily Mail. He is also a poet; his first book of poems and spiritual reflections, The Meaning, has just been published.

Steve lives in Manchester, England with his wife and three young children.