Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 4, Part 15 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here. Student: What if that would test for enlightenment. CTT: Pardon. Student: What about a test to measure enlightenment? CTT: Yes. What about it? Student: Is there anything like that available for people? [...]
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An amusing and perhaps insightful incident…. My wife and I were hiking in Zion National Park this morning, the Emerald Pools trail. Judy had gone on ahead to see something I wasn’t that interested in, so I’m sitting on a big boulder beside the trail, waiting for her to come back. The surface of the [...]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 4, Part 14 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here. CTT: One of the jobs of the field of Transpersonal Psychology will be to someday find ways to evaluate the actual kind of changes that take place in people as a result [...]
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Too many times I’m so busy producing new material that I forget to tell people that it exists. Since my aim is to communicate material that may interest people, that kind of defeats the purpose if they don’t know of it….. I’m also shy about seeming to “promote myself,” seems like an egotistical thing to [...]
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Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 4, Part 13 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here. [Note my postings may be irregular for the next few weeks as I'm going camping...] Student: So what is the hallmark of a good spiritual teacher? CTT: Wow! Student: Sitting full lotus [...]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 4, Part 10 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here. CTT: The mindfulness traditions claim they’ll take you all the way to enlightenment. And we certainly have historical examples of people who are considered Buddhas or saints or something like that, who [...]
I don’t seem to be able to make this come up as a response to the comment about whether a person with unusual experiences can also study them as a scientist, so I’ll add it as a new post here… “Are you suggesting that even someone with anomalous perceptions can contribute to a scientific study [...]
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Essence of Science, Essence of Common Sense or Science in a Nutshell Funny how everybody tends to automatically equate science with physical data and physical theories. Partly a function of the enormous success of the physical sciences, of course. This is a reminder I circulated to some parapsychologist colleagues who seemed to be falling into [...]
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Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 4, Part 6 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here. CTT: Now I say that with a little trepidation, because I’m thinking of some of the spiritual literature that seems to say that thinking is bad. Period. That thinking is always an [...]
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I’m engaged in some discussion with other parapsychologists about a spiritual outlook vs a materialistic one, and related topics. Here is an example of what I’m thinking about – without having come to a nice conclusion. If you find it stimulating, maybe you can tell me where I should end up! Identity, Self, Karma, Buddhism, [...]
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