Charles Tart

Charles Tart

Charles T. Tart (born April 29, 1937 in Morrisville , Pennsylvania ) is an American psychologist and a co-founder of transpersonal psychology .

Life

Charles Tart grew up in Trenton , New Jersey . He first studied electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before deciding to become a psychologist. He received his doctorate in 1963 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and then worked in hypnosis research with Ernest Hilgard at Stanford University .

In 1966 he became a professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis . There he taught for 28 years until his retirement in 1994. Since then he has been a member of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto , California . In 1987 Tart also became a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Sausalito .

Tart was the first holder of the Bigelow Chair of Consciousness Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas . He has served as visiting professor in East-West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, as a lecturer in psychiatry at the University of Virginia Medical School, and as a reviewer for government -owned psychological research at the Stanford Research Institute .

Research areas

Tart has become internationally known for his research into the nature of consciousness and its various states and studies of parapsychology .

Publications

• 1969: Altered States of Consciousness.
• 1971: On Being Stoned: A Psychological Study of Marijuana Intoxication.
• 1975: Transpersonal Psychologies.
• 1975: States of Consciousness.
• 1975: Symposium on Consciousness. With P. Lee, R. Ornstein, D. Galin et al. A. Deikman
• 1976: Learning to Use Extrasensory Perception.
• 1977: Psi : Scientific Studies of the Psychic Realm.
• 1979: Mind at Large. with Harold E. Puthoff and Russel Targ. Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Symposia on the Nature of Extrasensory Perception.
• 1986: Waking Up: Overcoming the Obstacles to Human Potential. Shambala Publ., Boston 1987 and Element Books Ltd., Dorset, UK 1988; dt .: Live wide awake and conscious. Paths to the development of human potential - the guide to conscious being. Scherz, Bern 1988 - since 1995 Arbor, Freiamt ISBN 3-924195-24-2
• 1989: Open Mind, Discriminating Mind : Reflection on Human Possiblities.
• 1994: Living the Mindful Life. - A Handbook for Living in the Present Moment. Shambhala Publ., Boston; dt .: The inner art of mindfulness . A manual for life in the present moment. Arbor, Freiamt 1996, ISBN 3-924195-26-9
• 1997: Body Mind Spirit : Exploring the Parapsychology of Spirituality.
• 2001: Mind Science : Meditation Training for Practical People.