I don’t seem to be able to make this come up as a response to the comment about whether a person with unusual experiences can also study them as a scientist, so I’ll add it as a new post here…
“Are you suggesting that even someone with anomalous perceptions can contribute to a scientific study of [...]
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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 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 [...]
Anonymous asks, in response to my last post, “Do you think this was a
glimpse of a higher reality and not an illusion?”
Wow, what a question! The particular incident I wrote of
was a long, long time ago, so I’m going to draw on more
extensive experience later on when I was doing Gurdjieffian
mindfulness work, rather than trust [...]
Sometimes I feel that the Universe is toying with me, rattling my cage, waking me up a little. Something happens that is delightfully ambiguous. I can easy feel justified in dismissing it as meaningless coincidence, or I can feel like a Higher Power is reminding me of something. Sometimes I feel both [...]
Continue reading about Sometimes – Near-Death Studies Meeting, San Diego, 2009
Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology,
Lecture 3, Part 4 of 13 parts. To start class from beginning, click here.
Student: I have a question.
CTT: Yes. Good. Ask a question.
Student: Well not a question, I guess an observation about the relaxing. I find it really difficult not to fall asleep when I’m doing [...]
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The question, a very good one, was asked
So how do transpersonal psychologists know what to tell someone who has come in for counseling?
One of my colleagues in the Spiritual Guidance program at ITP responded
I know that this is an issue in Spiritual Guidance. I have worked with individuals who have had co-morbid diagnosis – [...]
At the unique graduate school I teach at, the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, a number of the Core Faculty are clinicians and counselors, and we have a PhD level program in clinical psychology as part of transpersonal psychology. Recently I wrote them:
Here’s an interesting question from someone responding to my blog, a young [...]