He was the 1983 William James Lecturer at Harvard Divinity School.
[1][2][3][4] Taylor held the rank of yondan (4th degree black belt) and was the founder the Harvard Aikido Club in 1981 and a shidoin (instructor) in the United States Aikido Federation.
[5] In 1993 he founded the Cambridge Institute of Psychology and Comparative Religions; was a founding member of The New Existentialists;[6] and was the Vice President of the Massachusetts Association of Swedenborgian Churches (see Church of the New Jerusalem (Cambridge, Massachusetts)).
[7] Dr. Taylor was Senior Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (appointed official historian) and Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
[8] Taylor was known for the size and scope of his personal library of an estimated 8000 volumes.