Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 4, Part 6 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
CTT: Now I say that with a little trepidation, because I’m thinking of some of the spiritual literature that seems to say that thinking is bad. Period. That thinking is always an [...]
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I’m engaged in some discussion with other parapsychologists about a spiritual outlook vs a materialistic one, and related topics. Here is an example of what I’m thinking about – without having come to a nice conclusion. If you find it stimulating, maybe you can tell me where I should end up!
Identity, Self, Karma, Buddhism, Survival [...]
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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? [...]
My wife Judy and I are back from a 10-day vipassana meditation retreat with Shinzen Young. One of the many good things that happened was that she had this poem come to her….beautiful, but all too true for too many of us…..
I am sitting here and contemplating
My special cloud
The one that’s always hanging there
Between me [...]
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 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 [...]
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Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 4, Part 2 of 19 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
Sorry this one is a little late in going up, I’ve been on a 10-day meditation retreat, pretty heavy…..
CTT: So we’re trying to be bodily present in the here and now. I’ll give [...]