Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 4, Part 16 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here. Student: I have a question that I’ve been wondering about. Have you actually met anybody personally that you would think of as an enlightened being, or…? Student: Or admitted to being enlightened? [...]
For years I’ve been part of a private discussion group of scientific parapsychologists, mostly experimentalists. Recently we heard from one of our members, Professor Brian Josephson, a Nobel prize winning physicist, that he and another physicist had been dis-invited from participation in a small physics conference this summer because the organizers learned he was interested [...]
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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Antelope Canyon, near Lake Powell in Arizona, has a slot canyon on it, a tortuous, twisting, narrow (6-12 feet or so) deep defile between curved canyon walls of red and other colored stone. The sun only penetrates for a few minutes at noon, but when it does, the colors and shapes are out of this [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading about Measures for the “Right” spiritual path, or, An MMPI for the soul