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 of spiritual [...]
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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 that common trap.
I’m [...]
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This year I am honored to be serving as President of ISSSEEM, the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine. As part of promoting ISSSEEM’s upcoming June conference (see www.issseem.org) and stimulating intelligent reflection about consciousness, subtle energies, parapsychology, and science and spirituality in general, I am, with ISSSEEM’s aid, launching [...]
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Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 4, Part 5 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
CTT: Comments on the comments on your papers, or things you want to bring up?
Student: I was going to say that last year I took some time off. When I came back here one of [...]
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Recently I received an email from a scholar who will be reviewing my The End of Materialism book for a journal. He noted that:
In the book you say: “….genuine science [shows] that a wide variety of traditional religious views about reality are factually wrong; they just don’t stand up to empirical tests.” Can you [...]
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Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 4, Part 4 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 yet? [...]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 4, Part 3 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
Student: I have a question about when you were talking about when your mind is running, or your imagination is running away or running rampant.
CTT: Who was talking about that?
Student: I think you were.
CTT: I was? [...]
I’ve just come back from a 10-day retreat in the Sierra with Sogyal Rinpoche, very deep.
One of the things Rinpoche frequently mentions is how the Buddha summed up all his teaching in just three lines. My memory is not the best, but it’s something like to end our suffering
Do absolutely no harmful [...]
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[Sorry this one has been a little slow in being posted. I was on a 10-day retreat that was pretty intense....]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 4, Part 2 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
CTT: So we’re trying to be bodily present in the here and now. [...]
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 4, Part 1 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
CTT: All right. Just for the sake of upholding various spiritual traditions I’ll be traditional: [...]