One evening last summer, when I was on holiday with my family in Wales, I decided to explore the farmland around our rented bungalow. I climbed over a gate I hadn't noticed before because it was ...

In life, we're all constantly navigating through a labyrinth of experiences that mold, transform, and occasionally shatter our perceptions of reality. Each of us is on a unique journey, at times ...

As a psychologist, I have been studying what I call "awakening experiences" for a decade, and have recently published (with a co-author) a new study of 90 such experiences in The Journal of ...

A few years ago I climbed over a gate and found myself gazing down at a valley. After I’d been walking for a few minutes, looking at the fields and the sky, there was a shift in my perception.