Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 4, Part 5 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here. CTT: This goes back to an idea of Gurdjieff’s that I think is worth talking about, and that’s the idea of the food of impressions. Have you come across that in Ouspensky [...]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 4, Part 3 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here. CTT: So take a minute to look at the comments on your paper. You might not have a response to them. You might. It might also remind you of something that you [...]
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A course I teach at ITP, Mindfulness, and material on mindfulness in life I have written about in three books (Waking Up; Living the Mindful Life; and Mind Science), is designed to introduce our graduate students to the two basic kinds of formal meditation practice, concentrative meditation and insight (vipassana) meditation, and to bring increased [...]
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Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 4, Part 17 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here. CTT: But let’s throw in one more factor here that’s important, especially since so many of us are going to become clinicians, and that’s projection and transference reactions. Every one of us [...]
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Ouspensky weighs in on the 5% Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 4, Part 12 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here. Student: Before you said that I was thinking about this 5 percent and the Ouspensky book. In that book, doesn’t he talk about there only being [...]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 3, Part 11 of 13 parts. To start class from beginning, click here. CTT: Nobody’s asking the question people always ask of how come only your arms and legs? So I’ll give you the answer anyway. Do some people at least wonder? Student: Yeah. CTT: [...]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 3, Part 9 of 13 parts. To start class from beginning, click here. Student: Is it possible to sense other people’s feelings while you’re doing the exercise? CTT: Are you? Student: A little bit. I was just wondering if that’s possible. CTT: How do you [...]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 2, Part 3 of 15 parts. To start class from beginning, click here. Student: I wanted to go back to your original comment about context and culture. [Transcription of next sentence unclear] Jon Kabat-Zinn says we need to approach this area using life lessons and [...]