Steve Taylor’s research challenges the view that enlightenment, or awakening, is an almost unattainable goal. Awakening can happen spontaneously, without warning. He tells the stories of both children and adults who have experienced incandescent periods of wakefulness. This book will guide you through the various theories of consciousness and help you distinguish between fraudulent and genuine spiritual teachers. My favourite chapter debunks 11 myths of enlightenment so that we realize that at our next breath we might wake up to full awareness that will leave us forever changed. Moreover, he sees these individual outbreaks of awakening as part of a much wider pattern of a spiritual evolution happening to mankind as a whole, right now, not some day in the future.