Welcome, I’m Taylor Hawke, author, climate activist, and grandfather.  It’s good connecting with you.

Our exploration of waking up unfolds as a journey of inquiry, in 2 parts:

—The inner journey:

Here we explore waking up personally—to the deeper truth and fullness of who we really are, and to living more of all that is possible in our individual lives.

—The outer journey:

Here we explore waking up to the bigger story of humankind—to an expanded experience of this amazing and challenged world, and to playing our needed part in preserving a healthy future for all our children.

Praise for Waking UP:

A fascinating account of how our biggest global crisis may relate to some of our smallest internal battles. Provocative!
—Bill McKibben, founder 350.org, author The End of Nature

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We live in the best of times, and the worst of times. (paraphrasing Dickens)

—What a privilege to share this precious gift of human life, with all the joys and opportunities, at this amazing time in history.

—And we are facing multiple escalating challenges to our world, our well being, and our children’s future, especially the climate crisis.

Both are true.

So much is possible.

And so much is needed.

This is what we are given.

And there is great hope…

Praise for Waking UP:

This book sounds a wake-up call to a culture in crisis. Taylor Hawke weaves together psychology and spirituality, cosmology and climate change, to evoke the deep meaning of our lives at this moment on Earth. Offering wise counsel and relevant questions for our personal and collective journey, Waking Up inspires the individual and social transformations needed for the flourishing of future generations.
—Drew Dellinger, author, Love Letter to the Milky Way

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The demands of our time are calling us all to step up–
to become more, to engage life more fully, to be part of the solution.

The inner journey:

—We can consciously evolve and progressively wake up.

—We can embody our higher and deeper potentials.

—Our lives can get better, even radically better.

—We can free ourselves from our small limited ego-self.

—We can increasingly embody our innate true nature.

The outer journey:

—We can change our unsustainable ways, individually and collectively.

—We can work together for solutions.

—We can help accelerate the evolution of consciousness and culture.

—We can help turn things around, and do it in time.

—We can help preserve a healthy planet and future.

We are all needed.

We are the future waking up to itself.

You can buy the paperback Waking UP on Amazon (eBook soon).

The journey to self-knowledge that we each must take… is the prerequisite to full human consciousness, to the full savoring of the grandeur of this world, to the privilege of fully participating in life, and to the responsibility of contributing something sacred and essential to this world.
—Bill Plotkin, author Wild Mind 

Praise for Waking UP:

Rabbi Michael Lerner

Taylor Hawke’s Waking UP reminds us that the consciousness that can save this planet is not solely what we do inside ourselves, but also what we can do together to save the life-support-system of the planet. Hawke thus contributes to overcoming a narcissistic spirituality and psychology so that we can see the need for a common global effort to heal and transform this world.
—Rabbi Lerner, Editor of Tikkun, Chair of The Network of Spiritual Progressives, author The Left Hand of God

Michael Brune

Taylor Hawke offers a path toward understanding: Our world can be transformed forever by clean, renewable energy, but first we need to get out of our own way. Humanity can discover the opportunity beyond the climate crisis, and it starts with each of us.
—Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club, author, Coming Clean-Breaking America’s Addiction to Oil and Coal

May Boeve

The movement to confront climate change requires a transformation in our way of living, working, and even thinking, and Waking Up holds many keys to unlocking that, both personally and in community.
—May Boeve, Executive Director 350.org

Steve McIntosh

Taylor Hawke’s book, Waking Up, provides a beautiful and heartfelt call to accelerate the evolution of our collective consciousness. Hawke’s emphasis on environmental stewardship, together with his grasp of the emerging evolutionary perspective, results in a book that is filled with timeless spiritual wisdom, yet also highly relevant to the challenges of our times.
—Steve McIntosh JD, author, Evolution’s Purpose and Integral Consciousness

Mark Z. Jacobson

Converting the world’s energy infrastructure for all purposes to one based on wind, water, and solar (WWS) power, is both technologically and economically feasible… However, such a conversion will require people to believe that this is an urgent goal and amalgamate behind the concept. Waking UP provides the personal motivation for individuals to see and control their destiny, and to fulfill their desire to make the world a better place, thereby enriching their lives, and the lives of their children and grandchildren.
—Mark Z. Jacobson, Stanford University, Director of Atmosphere and Energy Program

Michael Goldstein

Don’t read Part I of Waking Up. Live with it. Sprinkle a little of it over your breakfast. Let a page or two join you on a coffee break, lie down with you for a nap, or bring you to a calmer reality during your commute. You will be the better for it and — through you — so will we all. Expanding your consciousness in that way may be your best hope for personally coming to grips with the terrifying realities and not-quite-imaginable solutions that Taylor Hawke wakes us up to in Part II.
—Michael Goldstein, author, Return of the Light: A Political Fable in Which the American People Retake Their Country