Combining the best of the humanistic and scientific traditions, this book covers the effects of drugs, yoga, self-hypnosis, mutual hypnosis, meditation, brainwave feedback, and dream consciousness. As the author states in his introduction: "The 1980s have been thought of as a conservative time. With respect to consciousness exploration by individuals in point of fact such exploration is still very much with us. It will stay with us, for better or worse, because of dissatisfaction with the limitations of our culture."
This wide-ranging book presents explorations in areas Charles Tart, international authority on consciousness and parapsychology, believes are at the cutting edge of research, presented in a way that is scientifically sound, but easily readable and personally relevant. The book is intended to expand our horizons of what our possibilities are, as we spend too much of our time living in culturally- and self-imposed limitations that cramp our true being and produce useless suffering. Topics include meditation, lucid dreaming, how to use a psychic reading, possible postmodern survival, dream yoga, altered states of consciousness and enlightenment.
Charles Tart reconciles the scientific and spiritual worlds by looking at empirical evidence for the existence of paranormal phenomena that point toward our spiritual nature, including telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, and psychic healing.Science seems to tell us that we are all meaningless products of blind biological and chemical forces, leading meaningless lives that will eventually end in death. The truth is that unseen forces such as telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, psychic healing, and other phenomena inextricably link us to the spiritual world, and while many skeptics and scientists deny the existence of these spiritual phenomena, the experiences of millions of people indicate that they do take place.In this book, copublished with the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), transpersonal psychologist Charles Tart presents over fifty years of scientific research conducted at the nation's leading universities that proves humans do have natural spiritual impulses and abilities. The End of Materialism presents an elegant argument for the union of science and spirituality in light of this new evidence, and explains why a truly rational viewpoint must address the reality of a spiritual world. Tart's work marks the beginning of an evidence-based spiritual awakening that will profoundly influence your understanding of the deeper forces at work in our lives.
All attempts to test people’s ESP abilities overlook the fact that ESP is an undeveloped function, so we have to learn how to use it to begin with, not just see how much ESP we can show. Psychologist Charles T. Tart applies basic principles of learning to this task to show how training under conditions of immediate feedback can enhance ESP ability. This highly readable book, originally published by the University of Chicago Press, is the theory and a comprehensive study suggesting the principles can work.
With Body Mind Spirit the leading figures in parapsychology finally break the self-imposed silence that has sequestered the field behind a wall of methodology and laboratory data. Researchers, including William Roll, Michael Grosso, and Rhea White, reveal how their work and that of their peers is a prelude to a transformation in the relationship between science and spirituality. While Body Mind Spirit doesn't spend time arguing for the validity of paranormal phenomena, it is no less important than any experimental test data in its efforts to crack Western dogma that has relegated science to the material world and designated the church as sole proprietor of the spiritual realm. The paradigm presented by these authors opens the door to scientific exploration of a milieu that transcends the boundaries set by mainstream science.
Being awake. Why is something that sounds so simple the primary goal of so many of the world's great wisdom traditions? In this workshop-in-a-book, Charles T. Tart shows why: the seeming simplicity of the awakened state belies its transformative effect on the lives of those who strive for it. His easy-to-use exercises put within everyone's reach the elusive art of "waking up" to life in the glorious present moment.
This book, by Charles T. Tart, world famous authority on altered states of consciousness, describes the results of a landmark study of 150 experienced marijuana users. What do they actually feel vs. propaganda about marijuana? Effects on vision, hearing, touch, social interaction, sexual sensations, space and time perception, thinking processes, spiritual experiences and ESP are among the many discussed. This is what can happen in the natural settings people use marijuana in, not the artificial conditions of the laboratory. This book will become the standard work on the subjective effects of marijuana.John Kaplan
La obra de Charles Tart desafía la visión científica que reduce al ser humano a fuerzas biológicas y químicas. A través de casi 50 años de investigación, Tart evidencia habilidades espirituales naturales y conecta la ciencia con la espiritualidad, proponiendo que una perspectiva racional debe reconocer la realidad del mundo espiritual.
In diesem Workshop in Buchform werden praktische Wege aufgezeigt, die uns helfen, aus unseren Konditionierungen und eingefahrenen Verhaltensmustern zum vollen Leben im gegenwärtigen Moment zu erwachen. Ich bin sicher, daß die Übungen, die Charly Tart uns hier anbietet, Menschen jedweden Hintergrundes und spiritueller Neigung viel zu geben haben und sie befähigen werden, mit jedem Aspekt ihres Seins an diesem kraftvollsten, wunderbarsten und heilsamsten aller Orte zu leben – im gegenwärtigen Moment. Ich bin aufrichtig berührt von seinem Bestreben, anderen zu helfen, und ich bete, daß seine Arbeit so viele Wesen wie möglich erreichen und ihnen zum Nutzen gereichen möge! Sogyal Rinpoche Ein hilfreicher Wegbegleiter mit zahlreichen wertvollen Hinweisen und Übungen. In diesem Buch zeigt Charles Tart anhand seiner eigenen Erfahrungen mit den Lehren Gurdjieffs und dem Buddhismus, welch ungeheuren Nutzen die Anwendung der Achtsamkeit im täglichen Leben bringt.
Ein Klassiker der spirituellen Literatur mit zahlreichen praktischen Übungen und einer sehr hilfreichen Checkliste für die Auswahl eines inneren Weges. Ein faszinierendes Buch, das aufzeigt, wie Lebendigkeit, Lebensfreude und das innere Potential des Menschen durch die Erziehung und Einflüsse der Gesellschaft verschüttet werden, wie dies verhindert werden könnte und vor allem, wie wir aufwachen und die in uns liegenden Möglichkeiten wiederentdecken können.
