Download or read book The Phenomenon of Awakening written by Derek Cameron and published by Eremitical Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief essay on the psychology of religion draws on early Buddhist and Christian sources as well as twentieth-century writings on developmental psychology. Texts from the Pali canon and the New Testament are compared with Piaget's theory of cognitive development and Anna Freud's writings on defense mechanisms in children and adolescents. The conclusion of the essay is that awakening is a universally accessible psychological development.