I’ve just finished editing* a video of me giving the ISSSEEM (International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine) 2010 Presidential Address, Toward An Evidence-Based Spirituality for the 21^st Century, which can serve as a summary of that book as well as stimulation for directions I hope people will study in the future, as well as giving a more personal look at me for those who want more than words.

It’s on YouTube in four parts, as follows:

Part 1 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9CBYisAa1o

Part 2 -  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdxQkMLLn24

Part 3 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRTreTfThbw

Part 4 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf3_LbxgyLc

It’s about an hour and a half altogether.

* Editing means the camera person kept swinging the camera back and forth between me and the slides in spite of my instruction to keep it on me, I planned to use a video editing program to add in the slides later.  I have now done that, which makes for much more readable slides and, by overriding most of the camera swings, less dizzying pans.  Excuse minor technical glitches in this, I’m just an amateur.

Interestingly, my son David Tart is very skilled at animation and has been the animation director of a number of films.  He looked at earlier efforts of mine and gave me good advice – stop trying to get better and better at video editing Dad!  With some obvious crudity, my stuff is a amateur job but a good one, to be admired.  If it gets even better, people will start looking at it as if it were done by a professional, and then get distracted because it’s quite flawed by professional standards.

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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 do, but that's kind of silly when you want to communicate.

Anyway, I have now produced ten 10-minute videos, going up on YouTube, with the series title “Questions of Consciousness.” My initial motivation was to simultaneously share some information and questions about the nature of our minds and parapsychology, and also to promote the forthcoming June 24-28 2010 meetings of ISSSEEM, the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine, in Colorado (website info at www.issseem.org) I'm honored to be the President of ISSSEEM this year, and setting the theme of the conference – Evidence-Based Spirituality for the 21^st Century – has been a privilege. I'll center my Presidential Address on that and our keynote presenters will also touch on that theme.

Think about the possibilities – a practical spirituality that works for most people, based on scientific and scholarly research to separate the wheat from the chaff, rather than “You better believe this or you'll go to Hell!” traditional kind of approach. Ambitious? Yes! Possible? Maybe, it's certainly worth a try. The sad reality is that traditional spirituality and religion don't work very well for far too many people.

Four of these videos are up on YouTube already (just go to YouTube and search for Charles Tart), six more will be posted soon, maybe all at once, maybe over the next six weeks.

Response has been enthusiastic so far, so after the June meeting I may continue producing videos to stimulate thought about consciousness.

In many ways I'm old-fashioned and come from a time when slow, thoughtful readings of sophisticated text was the way to communicate, but I know video is much more useful for a lot of people now.

Anyway, enjoy them and, if you find them useful, tell your friends about them. You might also want to come to the ISSSEEM meeting in June!

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