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BOOKS by Steven Taylor...The Fall: the Evidence for a Golden Age, 6000 Years of Insanity and the Dawning of a New Era was published by O Books (Winchester, UK) in Nov 2005. It's partly a work of history and anthropology, which suggests that it is not 'natural' for human beings to kill each other, for men to oppress women, for individuals to accumulate massive wealth and power, or to abuse nature. It shows that the worldwide myths of a Golden Age or an original paradise have a factual, archaeological basis. But the main part of the book is an attempt to explain how the social and psychological pathologies which we've been afflicted with for the last few thousand years - such as warfare, male domination, alienation from the body and nature, materialism, theistic religion etc. - came into being. And finally, I put forward evidence suggesting that we're now in the midst of a 'trans-Fall' era, in which these pathologies are gradually being transcended. Making Time: Why Time Seems to Pass at Different Speeds and How to Control it (to be published by Icon books in the UK, 2007) This book is partly an attempt to explain the different ways in which we experience time passing in our lives - e.g. why it seems to speed up as we get older, why it seems to go slowly when our attention isn't occupied, why it seems to slow down or disappear altogether in accidents, drug experiences, certain mental disorders, spiritual experiences and so on. The book also looks at the question of whether time actually exists, and concludes that it's a kind of illusion created by our normal conscious mind, or ego. In addition, it suggests what we can do to control our sense of time passing, and to actually expand the time that we live through, so that we can, in effect, live for longer.
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