There is a beautiful film in the works, scheduled to come out next February, about activities centered around Esalen Institute for building bridges between science and spirituality. I just got the info on it this morning from the producer, and it’s reproduced below. Feel free to pass it on. I found watching this trailer very [...]
Some years ago I spoke, as did a number of my friends and colleagues, at a parapsychology related conference in one of our beautiful but wild Northwest states. I was reminded this morning of an amusing incident at this conference. One of the speakers, a local and, I guess, probably politically influential Rancher, talked about [...]
A few days ago I had the good fortune to attend a workshop by noted Buddhist scholar Steven Goodman, a professor of Asian Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Mixed in with excellent overviews of Buddhism’s view of the human condition (unenlightened and full of suffering!) were questions and ideas [...]
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Dr. Charles Tart Mindfulness Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 4, Part 12 of 18 parts. To start class from beginning, click here. CTT: You’re getting at the balance between an experience that is being relatively directly created by what’s actually happening at the moment, and starting to superimpose concepts of [...]
Dr. Charles Tart Mindfulness Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 4, Part 11 of 18 parts. To start class from beginning, click here. [Sorry I haven't posted for a bit, life has been too too “full”....] Student: Recently I’ve been feeling like I can be in that sort of peaceful place, [...]
This was published in jcs-online, September 3, 2006, a technical discussion group from the Journal of Consciousness Studies, but I realized it is of much more general interest – there are probably a lot of you folks out there with sound tracks running….. Volume 13, Number 6 (2006) of the Journal of Consciousness Studies arrived [...]
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Dr. Charles Tart Mindfulness Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 4, Part 6 of 18 parts. To start class from beginning, click here. CTT: Now this point you bring up about state of being is really a very important one, and it’s very hard to talk about adequately. We can talk [...]
Dr. Charles Tart Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness Class, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 4, Part 5 of 18 parts. To start class from beginning, click here. Student: In the New Age-y interpretation they talk about, “Oh yeah, you need to stop rushing around doing and start being.” And then, well, what does that mean? [...]
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Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 4, Part 2 of 18 parts. To start class from beginning, click here. CTT: How was that for you? Any interesting reports? You look happy. Student: Yeah. I feel good. I feel present in my body. CTT: Good. Student: I noticed that when I was [...]
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One of the things I am doing with this blog is putting in early drafts and beginnings of material which will be in one of my next books. One of those book will be about looking for the Spirit in modern times, as seen through my eyes, with me probably being somewhat typical of a [...]