Enlightenment Quest and the Art of Happiness

Award-winning actor and playwright John Maxwell Taylor uses his forty years' experience in spiritual self transformation to show readers how to master life by learning to master oneself and to harness the energy of higher power to surmount the chaos of the modern world. He draws on his incredibly varied background—from European pop star, to student of Paramahansa Yogananda, Gurdjieff, Mantak Chia, to resident at the pioneering Findhorn Community, to playing Carl Jung on stage for many years—to invite readers to awaken from their collective trance and to claim the transformative power that is their birthright.  Taylor builds on the success of his previous book, The Power of I Am, to offer a potent array of practical tools, stories, and life lessons that help us reconceptualize the events in our lives, the way people respond to us, and the impact we have on the world. He discusses his method of “sociological aikido,” which provides methods for dealing effectively with negative people, narcissists, and egotists. He 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.